Speedy, easy side salad recipes

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We love to bbq but my one gripe is that I end up spending half of a lovely afternoon in the kitchen making salads.
Dh and the kids would happily just eat meat and bread, it's me that wants salad and I do enjoy them.
Can anyone suggest some good recipes or a great recipe book please?
I'm thinking of how I can add to the grain pouches you can get and stuff like that for r even any that can be batch cooked and frozen?
Tia

I love Smitten Kitchen for this. She has loads. I especially like the broccoli slaw, the asparagus egg and mint, date feta and red cabbage, carrot with harissa and feta...

So many to be honest.

smittenkitchen.com/recipes/salad/

This one is good for something so low effort www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/beetroot-feta-grain-salad

For something slightly more effort (but can be assembled in the morning or the day before) www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/help-yourself-grain-fridge-salad

Also love Smitten Kitchen website, lots of slaw recipes.
Yesterday I tried a Nigella salad of raw baby spinach, avocado and toasted pumpkin seeds, dressed with pumpkin oil (I used avo oil, could use olive), lime juice and zest, more salt than usual and pepper. It was delicious. DD added half moons of seeded cucumber too, for extra crunch.

This is a Jamie Oliver chicken salad recipe but I often make it without the chicken to accompany something else (often fish). But it’s also lovely as Jamie intended too.

Caesar salad is quick and would go well with BBQ meats, use a bought dressing.

Use tinned or bottled puy lentils, with a vinaigrette dressing, you could add texture with chopped sun dried tomatoes or chopped grilled artichokes in oil.

I really like Kathleen Ashmore Katcancook on insta for her hungry lady salad recipes

www.loveandlemons.com/chickpea-salad-recipe/

www.loveandlemons.com/quinoa-salad-recipe/

www.loveandlemons.com/couscous-salad/

Infact here...
www.loveandlemons.com/salad-recipes/

Do sone roasted veges the day before when you are cooking the evening meal. Eg eggplant, carrot, sweet potato, courgette red pepper. Then on the day make a roast vege and couscous salad with a lemony dressing.
Roast pumpkin with spinach sunflower seeds and feta also yummy

Placemarking I saw a cool one on Instagram I saved I will go and find a link

www.instagram.com/reel/CcQtoKul2Q_/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Anything slaw

Boil some new potatoes, as they finish cooking, add some peas fresh or frozen. Drain, then pour on some vinaigrette dressing, rocket leaves or watercress or fresh herbs. Serve at room temperature.

Discovered recipes for both of these last year and funnily enough found them again yesterday and am looking forward to some warm weather to do them again:

Sweetcorn Salsa

Lemony Orzo Salad