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This chicken and corn salad is inspired by the Mexican street food, esquites.

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Lost your healthy eating mojo? 30 substantial and delicious salads to help you locate it

Packed with colour, flavour and healthy ingredients, these salads can become the main dish on your menu, making you feel better instantly.

30 recipes
EASY

Grilled chicken and Mexican street corn (esquites) salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Adam Liaw’s Caesar salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s Caesar salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Summer tomato salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s summer tomato salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Hot smoked salmon with dill, eggs and new potatoes.
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Adam Liaw’s hot smoked salmon with dill, eggs and new potatoes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ new favourite Christmas pumpkin salad.
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RecipeTin Eats’ pumpkin salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats and Jean-Baptiste Alexandre
Adam Liaw’s peach and halloumi salad.
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Adam Liaw’s peach and halloumi salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Adam liaw’s prawn and glass noodle salad.
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Prawn and glass noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Leftover brisket salad with greens ‘n’ beans.
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Warm brisket salad with greens and beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pho noodle 'salad'.
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Pho noodle 'salad'

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

Chicken parmigiana salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Never toss a nicoise - ingredients should be composed with an eye for colour and contrast.

Tuna nicoise salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Picnic cobb salad.
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Adam Liaw's picnic cobb salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Ancient Greek grain salad.

Ancient Greek grains salad

  • Kon and Sia Karapanagiotidis
Raid the deli cabinet for this adaptable pasta salad.
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Deli cabinet pasta salad with chilli, parmesan and sunflower seed dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
This chicken noodle salad is a riot of colour and flavour.

Thai coriander chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Festive beetroot and burghul tabbouleh.
EASY

Beetroot and herb tabbouleh

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
There's no need to turn your nose up at salad for dinner.
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Steak and avocado salad with fried garlic vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Vietnamese chicken and noodle salad.
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Vietnamese chicken and noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
Charred zucchini pasta salad.

Charred zucchini, risoni and herb salad with parmesan and pea dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Fresh mozzarella, farro and cherry tomato salad.
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Fresh mozzarella, farro and cherry tomato salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Burrata cheese balls with heirloom tomatoes and basil oil.
EASY

Heirloom tomatoes with burrata cheese and basil oil recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Soft-boiled eggs with beetroot and carrot salad.
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Soft-boiled eggs with beetroot, carrot and parsley salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Neil Perry's warm haloumi salad with pomegranate and lemon dressing.
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Warm haloumi salad with pomegranate and lemon dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Rigatoni with zucchini and cherry tomatoes.
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Adam Liaw’s rigatoni with zucchini and cherry tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Rosheen Kaul’s “Hainanese chicken rice” greens bowl.

Rosheen Kaul’s make-ahead chopped salads

  • Rosheen Kaul
Greek green salad.
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Adam Liaw’s ‘incredibly easy’ Greek green salad with feta, mint and dill

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pork, apple and spring onion salad.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s pork, apple and spring onion salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Korean cucumber salad.
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It’s not TikTok’s viral cucumber salad, it’s Adam Liaw’s and it’s sensational

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Satay chicken salad.
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Adam Liaw’s satay chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Coconut and turmeric chicken noodle salad.
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Coconut and turmeric chicken noodle salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/goodfood/recipes/feeling-sluggish-20-bright-and-substantial-salads-to-help-light-the-spark-20240105-p5eve0.html