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Deli cabinet pasta salad with chilli, parmesan and sunflower seed dressing. Katrina Meynink's spring-summer pasta recipes for Good Food November 2020. Please credit Katrina Meynink. Good Food use only.

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14 simple yet substantial salads to make this week

These big salads are healthy, colourful, filling and most importantly, interesting.

14 recipes
Colourful corn salad.
EASY

1. Grilled sweet corn salad with black beans and almonds recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
There's no shortage of avocado in this grain salad.
EASY

... or farro, corn, chickpea and avocado salad with chipotle lime dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Sweet and sour chicken and rice salad.
EASY

Agrodolce-style chicken and rice salad with lemon and garlic yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Rosheen Kaul’s “Hainanese chicken rice” greens bowl.
EASY

... or ‘Hainanese chicken rice’ greens bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Karen Martini's beef, mint and lemongrass noodle salad.

Beef, mint and lemongrass salad with rice vermicelli

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Adam liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad.
EASY

... or prawn, tomato and glass noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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This salad brims with the mellow fruitfulness of February.
EASY

Grilled zucchini, zaatar and pearl cous cous salad with cherry tomato confit

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Hetty McKinnon
Amatriciana-ish cous cous salad.
EASY

... or Amatriciana-ish cous cous salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Raid the deli cabinet for this adaptable pasta salad.
EASY

Deli cabinet pasta salad with chilli, parmesan and sunflower seed dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Charred zucchini pasta salad.

... or charred zucchini, risoni and herb salad with parmesan and pea dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Salad nicoise.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s extra-nice salad nicoise

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Never toss a nicoise - ingredients should be composed with an eye for colour and contrast.

... or Jill Dupleix’s seared tuna nicoise

  • Jill Dupleix
Use any grains as the base of this warm steak salad.

Steak salad with freekeh, greens and spicy mustard dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Grilled chicken with buckwheat tabbouleh.

... or grilled chicken with green tabbouleh and tarragon dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink

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