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Salads

I love a big, hearty salad loaded with roasted vegetables, citrus wedges, beans, and chunks of cheese. Here you will find all of my favorite salad recipes, including this charred broccoli chopped salad, this simple and delicious grilled romaine salad, this summery, go-to cucumber salad, and finally this chopped Thai satay salad with ginger-peanut dressing.

charred broccoli salad with dates, almonds, and cheddar

Charred Broccoli Salad with Dates, Almonds, and Cheddar

Prosciutto, Endive & Shaved Manchego Salad with Tarragon-Shallot Vinaigrette

A bowl of cauliflower couscous salad.

Cauliflower Couscous Salad with Almonds, Herbs, and Cherries

A bean salad in a serving bowl.

Simple White Bean Salad

Raw bok choy salad.

Bok Choy Salad with Sesame-Almond Crunch

Fava Bean and Pecorino Salad

summer squash salad

Raw Summer Squash Salad with Lemon, Pecorino, and Herbs

A jar of Greek salad dressing on a countertop.

5-Ingredient Greek Salad Dressing Recipe

A plate of chicken souvlaki.

Super-Easy Greek Chicken Souvlaki

A raw asparagus salad on a platter.

Raw Asparagus Salad with Walnuts & Parmesan

A bowl filled with a spring fattoush salad with arugula, radishes, snap peas, and cucumbers.

Spring Fattoush Salad

In this kale Cesar salad, the dressing is light and lemony and the kale itself is extremely soft and tender. It's also vegan, the dressing made with vegannaise and vegan Worcestershire. The combination of curly kale, massaged till tender, quick-pickled onions, and toasted pumpkin seeds, which add so much texture and flavor, is so good. I think this is one you have to taste to believe. // alexandracooks.com

Honest Weight’s Vegan Kale Caesar Salad

A bowl of chopped salad with cashew dressing.

Charred Broccoli Chopped Salad with Spicy Cashew Dressing

A fall salad of greens, pine nuts, goat cheese, and apples in a bowl.

5-Ingredient Apple Cider Vinaigrette

Raw asparagus salad.

Canal House Shaved Asparagus & Arugula Salad | Roxbury Farm CSA

It's dishes such as this that make me understand (almost) how people can be vegetarian. In In this slow-cooked kale, kale is blanched first, roughly chopped and then sautéed over low heat for thirty minutes in olive oil with onions, garlic, rosemary and chile de árbol. It's almost black and slightly crispy when finished. It is sweet and addictive. // alexandracooks.com

Suzanne Goin’s Slow-Cooked Kale ( & Stuffing)

Watermelon radish salad with goat cheese, orange, and walnuts.

Watermelon Radish, Orange & Goat Cheese Salad

When it's too hot to cook, turn off the oven. Nothing could be more refreshing than this cool summery soup — green grape and cucumber gazpacho — and spicy-sweet-crunchy salad: quinoa with mango, lime and ginger. // alexandracooks.com

Cucumber & Green Grape Gazpacho | Quinoa Salad with Mango, Lime & Ginger

This pomegranate salad recipe comes from the book Turquoise by Greg and Lucy Malouf, which my aunt introduced to the family last winter when she served this stunning salad at a dinner party. The myriad textures and sweet-salty-hot dressing make this salad irresistible. // alexandracooks.com

Green Olive, Walnut & Pomegranate Salad; Thanksgiving Day Recap

Melon & Cucumber Salad

I can't seem to get enough of this bulgar bowl: a mix of bulgur and lentils, chopped cucumbers and tomatoes, toasted almonds, cilantro, and a lemon-tahini dressing. When you have some of the components prepared ahead of time, the assembly happens quickly! // alexandracooks.com

Bulgur, Lentils, Lemon-Tahini Drizzle

If you're in the market for a mandoline, I highly recommend the Benriner, but I would sleep better knowing you purchased a pair of kevlar gloves along with it. And if you have room for another gadget, the Benriner turning slicer does in fact have a place in the kitchen -- for certain vegetables it is a much safer and better tool to use than a mandoline, and if you're at all frightened by the idea of using a mandoline, the turning slicer might be the way to go. // alexandracooks.com

Benriner Mandoline & Turning Slicer, Kevlar Gloves

A large bowl of chopped Thai salad satay ready to be served.

Chopped Thai Satay Salad with Peanut-Ginger Dressing

A tossed watermelon and feta salad in a bowl.

Watermelon, Feta, and Mint Salad