45 Delicious Summer Salads You Need To Try

This Arugula Spinach Salad with sumac dressing is a light and crisp side dish perfect for any meal! It features creamy avocado, crunchy toasted sunflower seeds and shaved parmesan cheese.

Gather up your stone fruits to create this easy and fruity salad with a delightful honey lemon vinaigrette. This versatile summer salad is perfect for breakfast, brunch, and side to your grilled mains.

This Farmer's Market Salad is fresh and seasonal. It’s loaded with crisp greens, peaches, cherries, avocado, and seeds, all topped with a zesty lemon poppy seed dressing.

This Charred Corn Salad is a fresh and vibrant dish. With the slightly smoky flavour of the sautéed corn, the crunch of celery, the mellow cannellini beans, and the nutty, creaminess of the avocado, it is full of flavour and texture.

The acidic note of lemon juice in the dressing balances all the flavours. You will find many occasions to enjoy the salad, either as a side dish for meat, fish or poultry or as a nutritious, meat-free meal.

Try our Mediterranean Chicken Salad recipe! Packed with fresh ingredients and bursting with Mediterranean flavors perfect for any occasion.

Seasoned and grilled chicken is combined with sweet strawberries, goat cheese, crunchy pecans and a tangy balsamic dressing. A light and refreshing summer meal ready in just 20 minutes.

This cottage cheese pasta salad is a great refreshing summer dish that is loaded with cooked pasta, chopped vegetables, and a creamy dressing. This easy-to-make appetizer or side dish is a great high protein option!

This goat cheese salad features a delicious blend of arugula, Lebanese cucumbers, purple onions, grapes, cranberries, and goat cheese—all topped with a lemony vinaigrette to give you that fresh zest and tangy flavor.

If you're not a fan of mayo or want an alternative, you're about to discover a fantastic way to enjoy your potato salad. It has bacon and a tangy mustard dressing, so you won't miss the mayonnaise.

Packed with healthy salmon and loads of summertime veggies, this salad is sure to be on your most requested list. No baking required for a sumptuous dinner.

A chickpea salad with fresh summer corn cut straight off the ear and sliced cucumber that’s tossed with olive oil, green onions, lime juice, and cilantro.

This fresh summer salad features juicy strawberries and crunchy cucumbers in a creamy poppy seed dressing. Add blueberries and it's perfect for the 4th of July, too!

This cottage cheese ranch pasta ranch is a protein-packed version of a familiar favorite. It’s loaded with chicken and bacon, and wrapped up in a creamy, irresistible sauce.

Tomato peach burrata salad is summer on a plate. It combines ripe peaches, creamy burrata cheese, thick wedges of heirloom tomatoes, fresh leafy greens, balsamic glaze, and extra virgin olive oil. And it’s ready in minutes and looks fantastic.

This Couscous Chicken Salad is made with pearl couscous, grilled or cooked chicken, bell pepper, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, spinach, arugula, feta cheese, tossed with a paprika vinaigrette! It’s an easy and delicious salad to eat warm for dinner, and again the next day cold for lunch.

With a flavorful vinaigrette, artichokes, Parmesan, olives and summer sausage, this Spicy Italian Salad is full of flavor. Just say “no” to boring salads!

This Blackened Salmon Salad with Air Fried Salmon Bites is one of the best tasting, most nutritious salads you can eat! It's the perfect light summer meal that can also be prepped in advance. The bang bang dressing really takes this salad over the top and makes your taste buds dance!

This summer Italian salad is made on a bed of crunchy sourdough croutons. It’s topped with juicy peaches, creamy burrata, and an easy vinaigrette.

Fresh peaches make this Thai peanut chicken salad extra summery and delicious.

Peaches, creamy burrata and all the tomatoes, this summer salad is begging for warmer days. Fresh herbs top it all off

Fresh and flavorful, this simple salad has to be one of the easiest recipes ever. With only three ingredients (plus dressing), you can prepare it at a moment's notice.

This Thai-inspired grapefruit salad is light, refreshing, and so tasty with tangy sweet vinaigrette! It comes together in under 15 minutes with readily available ingredients.

This Creamy Potato Salad without Eggs will be your new favourite summer side! It's a simple recipe ready in 35 minutes. All the classic flavours you love, but with a healthy twist!

This Peach and Prosciutto Salad highlights the flavours of summer. Sweet, juicy peaches are combined with salty prosciutto, creamy bocconcini and fragrant fresh basil leaves on a serving platter, then drizzled with a simple vinaigrette. It is colourful, nutritious, and best of all – easy to make.

This Carne Asada Salad is a flavorful way to enjoy the bold fiesta flavors of the grill and the cool crisp, refreshing crunch of a chopped salad.

This easy, summer watermelon beet salad recipe has all of the flavours and textures you want in a salad: creamy goat cheese; sweet and juicy watermelon; pepper arugula; spicy onion; crunchy and salty pumpkin seeds; and tangy dressing. It's sure to satisfy all your taste buds.

Chilled cucumber shrimp salad is perfect for summer! Just toss cold shrimp and sliced cucumber with a creamy, lemony dressing and fresh herbs

This Italian green bean salad is a delicious addition to your menu for the summertime. Serve it hot, warm or cold for the perfect salad or side dish!

This Fresh Corn Avocado Salad embraces the flavours of sweet, crispy corn and creamy, rich avocado. It’s fantastic as a healthy and light lunch. Also delish as part of a Tex-Mex dinner any night of the week!

Take advantage of in-season peaches with this Peach, Avocado and Bacon Salad! It's full of colour and texture so that even salad-haters will love it.

If you love avocado and vegetables together then this easy summer salad might be perfect for you! Delicious and refreshing, this salad is packed with healthy nutrients and ready in 5 minutes. Would you care to try it?

This salad has refreshing veggies, fruit, as well as protein! Enjoy this on a busy summer day.

This grilled chicken salad makes the most of maple BBQ chicken breast by pairing it with juicy peaches and crisp mixed greens for the perfect summer salad.

Refreshing, light, and simple Hearts of Palm Salad is packed with crisp hearts of palm, juicy cherry tomatoes, the creamy goodness of fresh avocado, and arugula, all dressed in a creamy avocado dressing as smooth as a velveteen cushion, covering every bite with flavour.

Crispy veggies and creamy Caesar dressing make this pasta salad stand out from the crowd. This Caesar pasta salad is always one of the first things to disappear at picnics!

Perfect for outdoor summer parties, this semi-sweet and colourful 3 bean salad is super easy to whip up and a great go-to side dish that fits in any meal.

Bang Bang Shrimp Salad with avocado, pickled red onion, and cucumber is topped with crispy, creamy, sweet and spicy Bang Bang shrimp. It’s a healthy salad that is packed with flavour from the Thai chilli sauce and sriracha.

If you’ve ever wanted to have Elotes (Mexican street corn) without the mess of eating grilled corn on the cob with your hands, this Elote Corn Salad (Mexican Street Corn Salad) is for you! You get all of the robust roasted corn flavors with the creamy tang of the elote sauce and spices – in a neat bowl.

You will love this Peach and Burrata salad. It's made with smoky grilled peaches, creamy burrata, and silky prosciutto, which is served on a bed of mixed greens and dressed with olive oil, and fresh basil. It’s basically summertime on a plate.

Loaded with bright colourful peaches, cantaloupe, tomatoes, spinach and veggies served on a bed of quinoa and topped with slivered almonds, fresh mint, and a sweet honey vinaigrette.

Juicy salad using fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and lots of herbs. Easy to make and so delicious.

Flavoured with blue cheese dressing, herbs, and crispy bacon, this is the best potato salad! The patriotic red, white, and blue potato salad recipe is sure to be the hit at your next cookout. And, since the flavours only improve over time, it's the perfect make-ahead side dish.

Refreshingly crisp and vibrant, this beet and cucumber salad is packed with flavour and it's guilt-free. The combination of pickled beets and cool, crunchy cucumbers creates a perfect harmony of flavours.

Looking for a fresh and flavorful low-carb salad? You’ll love this Balsamic Grilled Chicken and Strawberry Goat Cheese Salad. It’s filled with juicy, tender chicken over greens, creamy goat cheese, and more all topped with a light balsamic dressing.

This strawberry pecan salad is tossed in delicious balsamic dressing that’s been sweetened naturally with real strawberries! It is fruity, hearty and super easy to put together.