Quick and Easy Salad Recipes

Adding a salad to the meal or making a maindish salad can be a healthy choice. This page contains quick and easy salad recipes.

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Tossed Green Salad with Fruit and Nuts

I call this an all together salad. It combines things DH and DD thought they wouldn't like. But it surprised them; they really liked it. I didn't measure ingredients. I just made us each a nice serving.

Ingredients:

spring lettuce mix, baby greens (or iceberg is OK)
avocado
green seedless grapes
walnuts
cucumber
green onions
green (or black) ripe olives
Craisins and feta cheese (optional)
sesame dressing (I used bottled, but you can make your own.)
Boysenberry syrup (Smuckers)
salt and pepper

Directions:

Wash all veggies. Break lettuce into bite size pieces. Peel and cube avocado. Take grapes off stems. Chop or break walnuts into pieces. Slice cucumber and green onion.

Mix all ingredients together and add dressing plus a drizzle of boysenberry syrup. Sprinkle with Craisins and crumbled feta cheese if you like.

Servings: Varies depending on size.

Prep Time: 10 - 15 Minutes

Cooking Time: None Minutes

By Great Granny Vi from Moorpark, CA

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Stretching Salad

If you have leftover salad, but not enough to go around, look in your pantry. Any of these items can be added to the salad:

chickpeas
canned beans
3-bean salad
green beans
beets
olives
corn relish
chopped apple
cabbage
celery
raisins
sprouts
carrot, finely diced
any other canned or leftover vegetable
bread cubes

You can make your own lower-calorie croutons by toasting bread in the toaster and cutting it up into cubes. Do not toast it until it's hard and dry, it is really good when still soft in the middle. These are especially good when made with rye or Italian bread. No need to season because your salad dressing has seasoning in it. This is a good way to use up the ends of the bread.

By Jennifer from Gilbertsville, NY

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Poppy Seed Salad Recipe

A lovely, tossed salad with fruit and crunchy toasted almonds. This recipe is healthy, tastes great, and isn't high on calories.

Ingredients:

1 bowl of lettuce, (head, romaine, spinach, or a combination)
1/2 cup strawberries, chopped into bite sized pieces
1/2 cup blueberries, fresh
1 can mandarins, drained
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese
1/2 cup slivered, sliced or chopped almonds
1/2 - 1 tsp butter or margarine
poppy seed dressing (low cal or regular)

Directions:

Prepare lettuce. Add the fruit and feta cheese.
Heat almonds in butter in a small frying pan (stirring frequently) on medium until lightly browned, then spread to cool on a paper towel. Caution: Keep an eye when heating the almonds, they burn easily.
Add dressing, toss all together, and enjoy.

By Ann from Goulais River, Ontario

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Easy Fruit Salad

When I was a kid, this was a salad my mom made a lot! Very easy, cheap and quick!

Ingredients:

1 carton Cool Whip
1 small carton cottage cheese
1 box gelatin (any flavor)
1 small can crushed pineapple, drained

Directions:

Mix well together. Use gelatin dry as it comes from box.

By Robin from Washington, IA

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Easy to Take Salad

Here's a thrifty, easy, low fat salad for carrying to work. Begin by making a bed of torn lettuce leaves and shredded carrots, then add chunks of raw apple or orange, pieces of low-fat mozzarella, and a handful of soy nuts. No dressing needed for this fresh-tasting dish!

By April

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Easy Low-Fat Fruit Salad

Ingredients:

1 large can peaches
1 large can pears
1 large can fruit cocktail
1 small can mandarin oranges
1 (3 oz.) box vanilla instant pudding mix
4 medium apples, chopped
2 cups seedless grapes
1/4 cup Tang drink mix
4 medium bananas, sliced

Directions:

Drain canned fruit, reserving juice in large bowl. Add pudding mix to reserved juice; stir until thickened. Combine drained fruit, apples and grapes in large bowl. Sprinkle Tang over fruit mixture; stir gently. Add to pudding mixture; mix well. Chill. Add bananas just before serving.

By Robin from Washington, Iowa

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Easy Fruit Salad

Ingredients

1 can pineapple chunks (16oz.)
1 can mixed fruit (16oz.)
1 can mandarin oranges (small can)
7 oz. jar apricot-tapioca baby food
2 cups mini marshmallows
2 bananas

Directions

Drain pineapple chunks, mixed fruit and oranges. Add baby food and marshmallows to fruit. Chill. Slice bananas and add just before serving.

By Robin from Washington, IA

RE: Easy Fruit Salad

Baby food? They still make tapioca baby food? Blech! I am so surprised at what is "ok" to feed babies these days! I nanny for a 16 month old and when she finally started eating, her mom wanted me to feed her Apricot Dessert, at 9 months! Needless to say, I left that container in the bag!

Hmmm, this struck a nerve! I know some people that EAT baby food, to this day! Ewwww! (06/14/2007)

By michawnpita