Healthy Salad Recipes and Healthy Salad Dressing Recipes

Find the best healthy salad recipes and healthy salad dressing recipes for all of your salad needs, whether you need a salad to bring to a potluck, or a salad side dish, salads for lunch has you covered!

Not sure where to start? Some of my favourite healthy salad recipes include: Creamy Shrimp Pasta Salad, Heart Healthy Mixed Bean Salad and my TikTok Quinoa Salad (aka The Jennifer Aniston Salad).

  • Healthy Southwest Chopped Salad

    Fresh and flavourful, this Southwest Chopped Salad is quick, easy, and delicious! It’s loaded with fresh veggies and a hearty drizzle of a creamy homemade Southwest Ranch dressing that your whole family will love!

  • Spring Salad with Green Goddess Dressing

    You’re going to love this Spring Salad with Green Goddess Dressing!! A delicious Spring Salad with mandarin oranges, cashews and avocado paired with a healthy Green Goddess dressing that is so easy to make, crazy delicious and can pull triple-duty as a dressing, dip or a sauce! It’s light & fresh, yet ultra creamy and packed with amazing flavor!

  • Traditional Deviled Ham Salad

    How to make deviled ham salad in just 10 minutes! This homemade ham salad recipe using leftover ham and hard boiled eggs can be served so many ways and makes a great lunch. Use it to top salads, on its own, or as deviled ham spread on bread.

  • Basmati Rice Salad with Mint and Edamame

    This cold basmati rice salad recipe is super versatile and is also appreciated as a side dish as much as a meal version. Refreshing, it is one of my favorites in the summer. Follow my lead or modify to using your own favorite ingredients.

  • Montreal Steak Salad with Pears, Cranberries and Honey Mustard Dressing

    Looking for a new and easy way to enjoy a salad that is perfect for the steak lover? Well friends, this is it?! This Montreal Steak Salad recipe is filled to the brim with deliciousness and is always a favorite when I serve it.

  • Roasted Asparagus Caesar Salad

    This is my favourite alternative to the classic Caesar Salad that I love to eat with grilled steak, pork chops or chicken- this Roasted Asparagus Caesar Salad recipe is made with a light Greek Yogurt Caesar Dressing and is the perfect Spring salad!

  • Classic Waldorf Salad

    This classic Waldorf Salad is full of fresh, crispy, apples, celery, grapes and walnuts with a creamy mayonnaise dressing served over a bed of lettuce. Serve it as a side dish or appetizer at Christmas or Thanksgiving. You can easily add chicken or turkey to make it a complete meal!

  • Arugula and Watermelon Salad with Red Onion, Feta and Pine Nuts

    Watermelon and Arugula Salad is a delicious blend of sweet watermelon, peppery arugula and creamy feta cheese. It’s drizzled with an addictive dressing of sweet balsamic reduction, and topped off with red onion slivers and tasty pine nuts – so good you’re going to want to eat it all summer long!!

  • Layered Cobb Salad Trifle

    This beautiful Layered Cobb Salad Trifle is easy to make and is loaded with hearty protein. This twist on the classic cobb salad is EIGHT delicious layers of lettuce, topped with grilled chicken, tomatoes, boiled eggs, homemade dressing, crispy bacon, crumbled blue cheese and green onions. This is a fun healthy summer salad for a BBQ lunch or dinner gathering, made in less than 30 minutes.

  • Easy Creamy Coleslaw with Grapes

    This is simply the Best Ever Creamy Coleslaw with Grapes recipe! This easy homemade creamy coleslaw recipe is much lighter on the dressing and is significantly tastier than store-bought because of the grapes and sunflower seeds and almonds. This unique coleslaw is a great summer BBQ side dish for your summer potluck!! Everyone will enjoy this healthy coleslaw recipe!

  • Red, White and Blue Fruit Salad

    Featuring red, white and blue ingredients this super fun fruit salad is the perfect way to add a healthy 4th of July salad to your holiday table. This is sure to make you the life of the party.

  • Chipotle Chicken Taco Salad

    Chipotle Chicken Taco Salad – Chipotle seasoned chicken tossed with all your favorite southwestern fixings…

  • Creamy Ranch BLT Pasta Salad

    The perfect fresh side dish for any potluck, this Creamy Ranch BLT Pasta Salad not only has juicy cherry tomatoes, chopped bacon, and —you guessed it—crisp romaine, but is made even better by a lightened up greek yogurt ranch dressing.

  • Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing

    Homemade Healthy Greek Yogurt Ranch Dressing recipe. A DIY, Clean, simple and easy recipe using pantry staples. Can be made thicker to use as a dip. Tastes amazing- use for low carb, skinny or weight watchers to top a salad. This is a super flavorful ranch dressing made from scratch! Learn how simple it is to make your own ranch dressing at home!

  • Broccoli Cauliflower Salad with Bacon and Almonds

    Broccoli Cauliflower Salad with Bacon and Almonds is filled with fresh broccoli florets, crunchy cauliflower, almonds and red onions, tender bacon pieces and slivered carrots – a flavourful, colourful, healthy, and ideal salad for a BBQ or a picnic.

  • Greek Pasta Salad

    Greek Pasta Salad, out of all the pasta salads to have in your recipe box, this is one of the best to wow a crowd! Cucumbers, tomatoes, olives, onion and feta cheese are mixed with pasta and drizzled with a homemade Greek salad dressing to create this colorful and appetizing pasta salad!

  • Corn and Black Bean Quinoa Salad Recipe

    This delicious and healthy corn and black bean quinoa salad is the perfect summer salad! It can be eaten alone, as a side dish, or in a wrap. Add chicken for some extra protein, avocado for some healthy fats or enjoy as is!

  • How to Make The BEST EVER Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing

    This creamy balsamic vinaigrette dressing will really make your salads come to life! It can also be used as a chicken marinade and takes only 5 minutes to prepare!

  • Mediterranean Lentil Salad

    This Mediterranean Lentil Salad is a hearty salad that’s perfect for lunch, a side dish or even a vegetarian main dish. Full of cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, feta and protein packed lentils. You’ll absolutely love the flavours and textures in this healthy salad!

  • Heart Healthy Mixed Bean Salad

    Heart Healthy Mixed Bean Salad: Turn canned beans, lentils and chickpeas into a flavourful salad that will add a healthy boost to your meals. Perfect year round, this fibre-rich salad is a great way of incorporating legumes into your diet.   This can be served as a side dish, perfect for potlucks or to make it a main for lunch serve it over spiralized cucumbers.

  • How to Make Creamy Cilantro Lime Dressing

    Yes! You CAN make a delicious creamy cilantro lime salad dressing! Creamy, delicious Cilantro Lime Dressing with greek yogourt! This dressing is so easy to make and pairs well with Southwestern-style salads!

  • Cilantro Lime Chickpea Salad

    This cilantro lime chickpea salad has buttery chickpeas, summer fresh corn, red onion, tomatoes, cucumbers, cilantro, and a homemade cilantro lime dressing. It’s the perfect summer salad for a potluck barbecue!