Warm Kale and Caramelized Mushroom Salad

Mushrooms are sautéed until deeply golden brown and paired with hearty kale leaves and a nutty sherry vinegar dressing. It's an easy vegetarian meal in a bowl.

Green Salad With Pickled Mushrooms, Cucumbers, Onions, and Pecorino

Bright pickled vegetables make for a bracing, refreshing salad that goes great with grilled meats.

Roasted Oyster Mushroom and Watercress Salad

Watercress is peppery, plump, and loaded with character. Here, we turn it into a full meal by pairing it with pan-roasted oyster mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, and a flavorful tarragon vinaigrette.

Make-Ahead Marinated Mushrooms with Kale, Shaved Carrots and Parmesan

The beauty of marinated mushrooms is you can't really go wrong; you can marinate them in pretty much whatever you have on hand. If you have fresh herbs, definitely throw those in there, and minced shallots would work great, too. This is ideal for a lunch box because the mushroom marinade doubles as your salad dressing, and because this salad is all about sturdy vegetables, nothing will wilt before lunchtime.

Roasted Potato and Shallot Salad With Marinated Mushrooms and Kale

This robust salad pulls together a handful of hearty, delicious ingredients: tender roasted potatoes, sweet caramelized shallots, tart marinated shiitake mushrooms, and hefty kale leaves.

Portobello Mushrooms With Pearled Barley and Preserved Lemon From 'Ottolenghi'

Portobello mushrooms are often disparaged as an easy, boring stand-in for meat when cooking vegetarian meals. Among the all of the bland mushroom "burgers," it's easy to forget one of the portobello's most useful characteristics—its stuffability. Take, for instance, the stuffed mushrooms from Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's Ottolenghi cookbook.

Beet and Wheat Berry Salad With Pickled Apples and Pecans

The key to make-ahead salads like this one is to use ingredients that can hold their shape and freshness over time. That means lettuces are out. In this hearty option, we combine chewy whole red winter wheat, roasted beets and their sautéed greens, pickled apples, and toasted pecans. It's a perfect, filling vegetarian option for autumn and winter tables.

Wild Rice Salad With Mushrooms, Celery Root, and Pine Nuts

This easy wild rice salad (or dressing, or stuffing) is deeply savory and earthy, thanks to sautéed mushrooms, celery root, and toasted pine nuts.

Spring Vegetable and Arugula Salad With Labne and Cucumbers

Come spring, it helps to keep the fridge stocked with the season's best produce, already blanched and chilled and at the ready. Here we combine sweet peas, grassy asparagus, green fava beans, crisp snap peas, and broccolini, along with some peppery arugula, a juicy cucumber, a red onion, and some fresh mozzarella cheese. Served with a good dressing and some labne and we have a spring salad that eats like a meal.

Rice Salad With Nuts and Sour Cherries From 'Plenty More'

This salad from Yotam Ottolenghi's newest cookbook, Plenty More, has a lot going on and everything going for it. A beautiful mix of grains, crunchy almonds and pine nuts, chewy dried cherries, silky onions, and enlivening arugula, basil and tarragon—every bite is fairly dazzling.