Salads Archives » Easy, Nourishing & Delish Recipes (2024)

Looking for an easy vegetarian lunch? Try this simple yet satisfying Creamy Lemon Garlic Chickpea Salad! Spoon on top of Sweet Potato Toast for the ultimate healthy sandwich!

To be honest with you guys, I suck at making salads. Though I eat a lot of salads, I wouldn’t say that most of them are “blog-worthy,” aka not good enough for you guys. Like don’t tell me to be in-charge of making a salad for a party if you ever invited me over. Just looking out for my friends, ya know? Nor do I know much about chickpeas, all I know is that I love eating them in various forms. But honestly, this chickpea salad was a breeze to make and actually turned to great.

Are you a big fan of chicken/tuna salad? If you are then you’ll for sure love this chickpea salad. It’s basically the vegetarian version of the classic creamy lettuce-less salads. To hold this salad together, I used Bolthouse Farms Creamy Garlic Dressing in place of the usual mayo. It adds tons of flavor with 77% less calories and 86% less fat than normal dressings/mayos (40 calories and 2.5 grams of fat per 2 Tbsp. serving verses 180 calories and 19 grams of fat) thanks to the yogurt it’s made with. You can feel good about using it to dress your salads because it has no preservatives, artificial color/flavors and it’s gluten-free! Can I get an amen🙌

And you know what else makes this recipe da bomb? The fact that it’s assembled and eaten on a sandwich made with sweet potato toast. After I tried sweet potato toast for the first time, I knew I had to make it again. So so so addicting guys. If you haven’t tried it yet in place of bread, DO IT.

This salad will literally take you 5 minutes to make and will satisfy your stomach and taste buds until dinner. Crunchy, creamy and flavorful all at once! Here’s what is in the recipe:

Chickpeas

Creamy Roasted Garlic Dressing

Red onion

Red pepper

Celery

Sliced almonds

Lemon juice

Lemon zest

Creamy Lemon Garlic Chickpea Salad on Sweet Potato Toast

This chickpea salad is an easy no-bake flavorful lunch that will take 5 minutes to make. Made complete by using sweet potato toast as sandwich bread, this vegetarian lunch will keep you full until dinner!

*For my vegan friends who want to make this recipe, simply sub in vegan-friendly dressing! You can check out the options from Bolthouse Farms Here!

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Question of the day:

What is your go-to lunch?

This healthy Mint Strawberry Avocado Salad with Citrus is a delicious side to lunch or dinner filled with fresh summer produce! It’s so easy-to-make and only takes 5 minutes to put together. Also paleo, vegan and whole 30-friendly!

I swear I eat about 100000x more veggies and fruits in the summer….

Maybe that’s because our nearby fruit market (which I’ve said about before) is literally THE BEST ever! I’m talking $2.50 for 2 pints of fresh strawberries, $1 for 4 large cukes, and $1 for 2 avocados.

It’s one of those local places where the owners know you by name and give you the “valued customer” treatment. By that I mean, when you ask for 5 lbs of bananas, they give you 7 lbs for the same price.

You must understand why I get so sad when I go back to school because that means no more farmer’s market and no more cheap fresh produce 😔. But that’s why I go hard during summertime, to make up for all that loss during the school months which brings us here to this flavorful and fresh salad.

I love baking with produce and all, but my favorite way to enjoy the fresh and delicious flavors of summer produce is in raw, uncooked form like this Minty Strawberry Avocado Salad with Citrus. It’s literally the easiest thing you can possibly make and was inspired by this Grapefruit Corn and Mint Salad.

Minty Strawberry Avocado Salad With Citrus

This Salad is made up entirely of fresh produce such as:

Strawberries

Avocado

Cucumber

Grapefruit

Mint

Fresh lime juice

Making this salad the perfect burst of summer-in-your-mouth.

Make this healthy Minty Strawberry Avocado Salad as a flavorful side dish to your dinner or add some of your favorite protein for a filling lunch. You can even sub in oranges for grapefruit or zucchini for cucumber. This salad is paleo, vegan and whole-30 friendly making it suitable for everyone!

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Tropical Sweet Potato Salad

Questions of the day!

What are some of your favorite summer veggies and fruits?

What’s your favorite way to eat summer produce?

This Creamy Tropical Sweet Potato Salad is a healthy and delicious side dish filled with tropical flavors like coconut and pineapple! Also vegan, paleo and whole 30 friendly!

You know those recipes that you love so much that you keep on making different variations of? That’s how we are with a lot of our recipes, like breakfast pizzas, oatmeal and mug cakes.

Recipe Inspiration

I was scrolling through our Pinterest feed the other day and stumbled upon this Cranberry Sweet Potato Salad that we made for Thanksgiving last year and wanted to make it again, but this time, change it up for a more summer-like flavor. Since I already knew that the base of those recipe worked well, I decided to add-in tropical flavors instead of the original flavors.

Flavor Profile

This Sweet Potato Salad gets it’s tropical taste from:

Toasted Coconut

Macadamia Nuts

Fresh Pineapple

Coconut yogurt

It’s so tropical that you’ll think your on an island somewhere drinking a pina colada with your toes in the sand. Totally kidding, well sort of!

Different and Tasty!

It’s incredibly creamy and does not include sour cream or mayo as opposed to traditional potato salad. It’s a delicious side dish for a family cookout or can even double as a healthy dessert.

Allergies & Diet

This Potato salad is also great for those with allergies and dietary restrictions such as paleo, vegan and whole 30! So if you make this tasty Tropical Sweet Potato Salad, you won’t just be transported to an island, but you will also please everyone!

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I love a nice refreshing summer salad. One with lots of colorful fruit and a light tangy dressing. I have only tried papaya once and fell in love with its honey-like sweetness at first bite. It pairs well with the tang from the lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. This is the perfect picnic salad, with only a few ingredients and takes only a few minutes to assemble. Make this before summer ends, you will regret it if you don’t!

Colorful Papaya Avocado Slaw

• 1 10 oz. bag broccoli slaw
• 1 cup papaya, chopped
• 1/2 avocado, chopped
• 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1/2 Tbsp. balsamic vinegar
• 2 Tbsp. fresh cilantro, finely chopped

1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Mix well.
2. Enjoy!

Health Benefits

• Fiber
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Antioxidants
• 100% clean
• No added sugar
• No preservatives
• All natural
• Vegan
• Raw vegan
• Vegetarian
• Paleo
• Whole 30
• Gluten-free
• Dairy-free

You know when you are just thinking about random things and you just have a really good idea pop in your head? Well today was one of those days. I was trying to figure out what to do with the ridiculousamount of tomatoes in my kitchen along with the 1 random avocado hanging out in the fridge. I love salsa, and I absolutely adore guacamole (avocado, enough said) so why not combine them! The result is the most superb and spectacular mexican condiment that you have ever tasted! Along with the crunch of the peppers, this salsamole will stun you! Salsa and guacamole are a perfect match together, it was truly mean’t to be!

Salsamole

• 1 avocado, mashed
• 4 tomatoes, finely chopped
• 2 bell peppers (any color), finely chopped
• 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
• salt and pepper

1. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Mix well.
2. Enjoy!!!

Health Benefits

• Fiber
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Antioxidants
• 100% clean
• All- natural
• No preservatives
• No added sugar
• Raw vegan
• Vegan
• Vegetarian
• Paleo
• Whole 30

Who doesn’t love a refreshing salad for a summer cookout? Salads are a simple and delicious way to enjoy your veggies! With this recipe, you get a nice simple salad that is packed with flavor!! A little bit of saltiness balanced out by a little bit of sweetness! What more could you ask for?? Oh yea thats right, is simple and easy to make!!!

Peach and Maple-Spiced Pecan Spinach Salad with Maple Vinaigrette

Makes 4 servings

• 4 cups spinach
• 1 peach, sliced in thin, small slices

Pecans

• 1/4 cup chopped pecans
• 1 Tbsp. maple syrup
• 1/8 tsp. sea salt

Dressing

• 1/4 cup Balsamic Vinegar
• 1 Tbsp. maple syrup

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix pecans with salt and maple syrup. Place on a cooking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Bake for 15 minutes, or until nuts are crunchy
3. Combine spinach, peaches and nuts, mix well.
4. Mix together balsamic vinegar and maple syrup. Pour on top of spinach.
5. Toss well, or until salad is evenly coated with dressing
6. Enjoy!

Health Benefits

• 100% clean
• Vegan
• Vegetarian
• Paleo
• Whole 30
• Vitamins and Minerals
• Fiber
• Healthy Fats
• No added sugar
• No preservatives
• All-natural

Potato salad is a summer staple, but with all of that mayo, cream-cheese, butter, you name it, its not very forgiving on your waistline, or very clean at all. I absolutely am in love with sweet tators! They taste like pure heaven to me and I wanted to create my own version of the so-called “potato salad.” Not only did I create my own version of the popular dish, but I added my own flair to it as well. With the addition of cilantro, lime and pistachio flavors, this salad takes on a whole different level full of flavor blasting goodness, unlike none other! This recipe is perfect for 4th of July or your next summer cookout, it’ll be sure to impress, guaranteed!

Cilantro Pistachio Sweet Potato Salad with Balsamic-Lime Dressing

• 4 medium sweet potatoes, cooked
• 2 Tbsp, cilantro, finely chopped
• 2 Tbsp. pistachios, finely chopped

Dressing:

• 2 Tbsp.balsamicvinegar
• 1 Tbsp. lime juice
• 1 tsp. honey
• 1 tsp. mustard

1. Peel off the skins of the sweet potatoes, and cut them into small cubes.
2. Combine remaining ingredients to the sweet potatoes, mix well.
3. For the dressing, combine all ingredients and mix well.
4. Add dressing to sweet potatoes, mix well.
5. Enjoy!

Serves 4

Health Benefits

• Fiber
• Healthy Fats
• Good Carbs
• No added sugar
• No preservatives
• All natural
• lots of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants
• Low calorie
• Vegan
• Paleo
• Whole30
• 100% clean
• Gluten and dairy free

You know those certain words that just put a smile on your face every time you hear/say it? Well that’s what the word Dumpling is to me. It’s just makes me happy! Well after reflecting upon the word Dumpling, I really wanted to make some! Traditional dumplings are heavily processed and usually deep fried/pan fried containing a lot of saturated fats. I had a surplus amount of eggplant in the fridge and was thinking about a creative way to use it, so naturally, I put two and two together to create an eggplant dumpling. Being Italian, it was quite natural to add the caprice salad touch with an unexpected yet delicious surprise, hummus! These little dumplings are great for a healthy and easy appetizer if you are looking to wow someone (which, lets face it, we are always trying to impress someone). Go ahead and show these little gems to your friends and family, I promise you won’t let them down!

Caprice Eggplant Dumpling Appetizers

• One Small Eggplant
• 1/3 cup hummus
• 1 large tomato
• Mozzarella cheese
• Fresh basil leaves

1. Cut eggplant lengthwise into thin strips then place on baking sheet coated with cooking spray, sprinkle with salt and pepper and cook at 350 degrees for about 20-30 minutes or until tender
2. let eggplant strips cool and then divide hummus among the strips and spread evenly
3. place a tomato slice in the center of each eggplant strip and fold over
4. Place a small piece of mozzorella cheese in the center (where the two ends meet from strip)
5. Place Dumpllings on a baking sheet coated with baking spray and cook for about 10 minutes, or until cheese melts
6. Place a fresh basil leaf in the center of the cheese

Health Benefits

• All natural
• Fiber
• Vitamins, minerals and antioxidants
• No added sugar
• Good fat
• Low calorie
• No preservatives

What are your favorite healthy appetizers???