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Peperonata, tuna and crispy caper pasta fredda.

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30 substantial summer salads to fill you up

Keep things healthy and interesting with these tasty super salads you'll have on rotation all season long.

30 recipes
Pasta salad with peperonata, tuna and buffalo mozzarella.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura's peperonata, tuna and crispy caper pasta fredda (pasta salad)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Heirloom tomatoes topped with "cowboy caviar".
EASY

Cowboy caviar salad with heirloom tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • 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
Chicken parma in salad form, with bonus parmesan crisps.

Chicken parmigiana salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Warm steak salad with chipotle dressing.
EASY

Warm steak salad with chipotle dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Potato salad with extra veg.

Vegetable and potato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Pho noodle 'salad'.
EASY

Pho noodle 'salad'

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Mexican salad with coriander, lime and black pepper dressing.
EASY

Mexican salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Picnic cobb salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw's picnic cobb salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken noodle salad.
EASY

Chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Garlic bread salad
EASY

Garlic bread salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tomato trio salad.

Three tomato salad with sunflower seed puree and whipped feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Greek salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
There's no need to turn your nose up at salad for dinner.
EASY

Steak and avocado salad with fried garlic vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
A good chicken caesar is all about the contrasts, says Katrina Meynink.

Chicken caesar salad with potato chips

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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This substantial salad is a study in contrasts.
EASY

Roasted pumpkin and chickpea salad with herby yoghurt tahini dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Haloumi, zucchini, Israeli cous cous salad.
EASY

Haloumi, zucchini and cous cous salad with tomato chutney dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
This salad will get you back on the roasted cauliflower bandwagon.
EASY

Roasted cauliflower, chickpea and herb salad with harissa and honey dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Taking the chickpeas to a dark colour when roasting helps them to hold their crunch.
EASY

Green goddess tuna salad with crispy chickpeas

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pumpkin and pesto pearl cous cous salad.
EASY

Pesto cous cous with maple roasted pumpkin and almond

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Summer in a bowl: Peach salad.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Peach salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Fried eggplant and feta fattoush.
EASY

Adam Liaw's fried eggplant and feta fattoush

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Peanut butter noodles with roast chicken.
EASY

Peanut butter noodles with roast chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Turmeric, ginger and coconut create a brightly coloured, flavour-packed dressing.

Chickpea and tomato salad with coconut dressing

  • Danielle Alvarez
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The beauty of prawns is in their versatility, says Hayden Quinn.

Hayden Quinn's prawn nicoise salad

  • Megan Johnston
Toasted freekeh salad topped with crispy carrot.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Crispy carrot freekeh salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Use any grains as the base of this warm steak salad.

Steak salad with freekeh, spring greens and spicy mustard dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's delicious gado gado salad with eggs and peanut dressing.
EASY

Gado gado egg and peanut salad recipe

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

Tuna nicoise salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's steak makeover.
EASY

Steak and sweet potato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/substantial-summer-salads-youll-make-again-and-again-20230127-h29fhd.html