Pea, Cabbage, Parmesan and Mint Salad

Adapted from a recipe by Karen Martini, a famous Australian chef. Fast to make with everyday ingredients. So good you'll want to eat the whole salad as a meal!

Snap Pea Salad With Mint and Tahini-Harissa Dressing

Sweet snap peas and mint is a classic combination that lends itself well to variation. Here we riff on it by adding yogurt and a couple other flavorful ingredients like tahini and harissa. It's light yet rich, cooling yet spicy.

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

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

Sālād-é-Shirāzi (Persian Cucumber and Tomato Salad)

Sālād-é-Shirāzi (Persian Cucumber and Tomato Salad) is a popular Iranian salad featuring a combination of cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions that is refreshing, simple, and quick to make.

Pickled Spring Peas

These pickled peas are wonderful because they lose none of their pea essence in the pickling process. Instead, they just gain a vivid tartness. I've used them in a quick pasta dish and have a few left that I want to use to garnish my next batch of asparagus soup (two spring vegetables that go so well together).

Snap Pea Salad With Creamy Yogurt-Mint Dressing

Snap peas are one of my favorite vegetables for eating out of hand, but I like them even better lightly blanched. It takes a little willpower not to tear through them all raw right away, but if you can hold off, an even tastier salad—full of plump, sweet peas in a creamy, minty dressing—awaits.

Seafood, Fennel, and Lime Salad from 'Ottolenghi'

This seafood salad from Ottolenghi combines raw fennel and red onion with squid and prawns for an even balance of crunch and chew. Dill, cilantro, and parsley give the salad an herbaceous finish.

Mediterranean Pearled Couscous Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette

This 30 minute, meatless pearled couscous salad with Feta and lemon vinaigrette is perfect for a light dinner or as a summer side dish. Great for picnics!

Marinated Kale and Chickpea Salad With Sumac Onions

This salad keeps fantastically in the fridge, retaining its crunch and developing its flavor over time.

Salata Falahiyeh (Palestinian or Farmers Salad)

If all you have at home are tomatoes, onion, and mint, you can enjoy a very delicious salad.