What's your favourite salad?

[Lostinbooksandcoffee]

I'm looking for some inspiration for some different, interesting salads for lunch?

I love nuts, olives, most cheeses, etc. Don't fancy fruit in a salad. Vegetarian, not fussy.

What Are your favourite salads?

[Mominatrix]

We eat quite a few salads because it is one of my favourite foods. Anything can become a salad and they can even be warm.

A few of my family favourites:

• Salade Nicoise (I blaspheme by using seared tuna instead of tinned tuna)
  
• Greek salads (younger DS's favourite)
  
• Frisee with lardons, fried egg, and olive oil croutons
  
• Thai style beef salad
  
• Napa cabbage salad with chicken and grated veg and sesame dressing
  
• crunchy greens salad with broccoli, mange tout, sugar snap peas, caramelised shallots, and thinly sliced fennel
  

Ottolhengi's cookbooks are full of great israeli influenced salads

[DoubleDessertPlease]

Mixed bean salad: (butter, kidney, etc), chopped and sliced red onion, lettuce, green beans (blanched), grated carrot and garlicky French dressing. Healthy, substantial, cheap and delicious (I think anyway lol).

[thisstooshallpass]

Panzanella

[RaN88]

Warm chicken ranch. Baby leaf salad, warm chicken and bacon and ranch dressing with parmesan. I suppose it's similar to a Caesar with a different dressing, more garlicky!

[HathorX]

Broad beans (removed from their little jackets, ideally), peas, fresh mint, lemon juice. Sometimes I add feta or parmesan, sometimes I add cubes of courgette or new potatoes.

Serve it like warm. It is fantastic.

[Peta11]

Fattoush and tabbouleh salads are a firm favourite here!

[BellyDancer124]

www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/b/burrata-with-tomatooreganosalad.html

I adore this salad! We can't stop making it... we have tried adding prawns and salmon to it as a nice main meal and it's just lovely.

[brumblebee]

Spinach, walnut, pear, avocado, fine sliced salad onion, crumbled Stilton, honey mustard dressing. Delicious!

[chubbyhotchoc]

Greek salad but try baking the feta in the oven with oregano and olive oil and adding to salad last minute.

[LakeFlyPie]

Giant cous cous and sun dried tomato

[LakeFlyPie]

Goats cheese, toasted walnut, apple with dark leaves (watercress / spinach) with a vinaigrette dressing

[Angbunnyboo]

Lentil, preserved lemon and beetroot - so tasty! I usually use a mustardy vinaigrette to flavour and some of the lemon liquid.

Harissa green beans and chickpeas with a quick homemade tomato sauce - cook it up and serve cold with crusty bread.

Southwest salad - sweetcorn, black beans, chopped tomato, avocado, red pepper and red or spring onion. Flavour with fresh coriander and lime juice.

[Pickles89]

Pasta salad! My mum makes the best one with red pepper, green pepper, red onion, sweetcorn, kidney beans, pasta shells and a home made vinaigrette dressing.

[Emma330912]

Salad leaves with lots of tomatoes, cucumber and fresh coriander leaves, pan fried sweetcorn (sometimes pineapple too) no added oil though just fried gently, with warm asparagus on top, merchent gourmet chestnuts & sainsburys herb & garlic olives, I squeeze lemon and pour some olive oil over it.

[WinWinnieTheWay]

Finely chopped red onion, cucumber, tomatoes, avocado, spinach, avocado oil, salt and lemon juice.

[Littleshortcake]

I love a good Caesar salad. My favourite is one I don't know how to make but I but it. It's a pineapple salad with raspberry dressing. It has red onions and sweetcorn etc.

[Luzina]

Pea shoots, tomatoes, cucumber, black olives, avocado with dressing made with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and dijon mustard

[Harrykanesrightsock]

Courgette, pea, feta cheese and mint.

[Ylvamoon]

Cucumber- dressing with dill & sour cream,
French beans with red onions and vinaigrette
Simply tomato & mozzarella
Green beans, new potatoes & chicken (or not) with a lovely honey & mustard dressing.
I always served with an interesting bread like crusty or sourdough.

[FrankiesKnuckle]

Baby spinach, beetroot, toasted pumpkin seeds and crumbled feta.

[CanIHaveAPenguinPlease]

In Cyprus watermelon is usually served with halloumi or kefalatouri a Greek cheese.

[Muddlingalongalone]

Watermelon & feta with red onion. It's a Jamie Oliver recipe.
I add Parma ham but obviously that wouldn't be suitable for you.

[howdidigettobe50something]

Definitely... And their olive oil!

[Carrotcakeforbreakfast]

Greek Salad

So much better in Greece though..their tomatoes actually taste of tomato!

[mrsbyers]

Im sure there was a thread over the weekend with some great suggestions if you scroll down