When it’s warm outside and you don’t wanna eat anything too, too heavy, it’s time to incorporate some salads into the mix! Thankfully there are soooo many delicious in-season ingredients available, so you can’t really go wrong! But just in case you need a little healthy inspiration, check out our favorite colorful summer salads to try ASAP.
1. Colorful Citrus Salad
With bright citrus and earthy beets and fennel, this recipe from Beijos is almost too pretty to eat but too delicious to resist.
2. Tropical Salad with Mango Dressing
Allll the fresh veggies *and* mango?! This Simply Whisked recipe is definitely one we’d prep for the work week!
3. Cucumber and Heirloom Tomato Salad with Red Onions
Since it’s summertime, you can bet we’ll be incorporating tomatoes to every recipe we can, starting with this one from Vikalinka!
4. Summer Stone Fruit Salad with Burrata and Salt & Pepper Almonds
Creamy burrata cheese, crunchy almonds, a tangy honey-balsamic dressing — this Floating Kitchen recipe is one you’ll wanna make again and again.
5. Strawberry and Baby Lettuce Salad
Searching for colorful summer salads to enjoy for lunch or as a dinner side? Bookmark this one from Season & Thyme, stat!
6. Peach, Tomato & Corn Salad with Burrata
Think of this Serve Sunshine recipe as all of summer’s best flavors combined.
7. Summer Peach & Blueberry Kale Salad
Not a kale fan? This recipe via Kalefornia Kravings will definitely change your mind.
8. Summer Vegetable Gnocchi Salad
And because pasta salad *totally* counts as salad, we had to include this recipe from Eating Well — peep those vibrant in-season veggies!
9. Watermelon Tomato Salad
Aiming to impress at your next barbecue? Try this spicy watermelon salad recipe from Love & Lemons!
10. Blueberry and Chickpea Salad with Maple Dijon Vinaigrette
Whether you’re searching for colorful summer salads to take to work to enjoy for dinner, this salad is definitely a must-try. Bookmark the recipe from Munchmeals by Janet!
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Allison Wheeler is a writer, Bruce Springsteen enthusiast, and sixth-generation Texan living in Denton, Texas.
