Quinoa Salad With Dried Tart Cherries, Mint, and Feta in Lemon-Sumac Vinaigrette

This quinoa salad takes Middle Eastern flavors and ties them together with a sumac-lemon vinaigrette. The mix of tart, dried cherries, mint, parsley, salty feta, and pomegranate is enough to make you forget you're eating healthy.

Make-Ahead Chickpea Salad With Cumin and Celery

A simple salad of chickpeas dressed in a light vinaigrette flavored with cumin, shallots, and olive oil. Crunchy celery and parsley finish it off. This is the kind of salad that gets better as it sits—Make it one night and pack it for lunch at the office or on a picnic the next day.

My Favourite Quinoa Salad

My all time favourite Quinoa Salad. Garlic Ginger Asian Dressing, lots of colourful veggies, finished with crushed wasabi peas - best part!

Seven-Layer Make-Ahead Salad With Chickpeas, Endive, and Yogurt Dressing

Let's admit it: A seven-layer salad is really just garnished mayonnaise. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's potluck food—not exactly the kind of dish you'd serve at a dinner party or holiday gathering. It's too bad, because the seven-layer salad offers one really serious advantage to the harried home cook: It's meant to be made ahead. You can assemble the whole thing several hours in advance and place it on the table with no need for further dressing or futzing. I decided to take ...

Quinoa with Corn, Tomatoes, Avocado, and Lime

This is a delicious summer salad that you can eat with reckless abandon. Nourishing quinoa is infused with vegetable broth and dotted with fresh-cut sweet corn, juicy summer tomatoes, bright green scallions, spicy jalepeno peppers and chunks of creamy avocado.

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.

Make-Ahead Marinated Cucumber Salad with Radishes, Dill, and Shrimp

Cucumbers and radishes are the perfect, refreshing candidates for a salad that can improve while sitting in dressing overnight. The tangy, shallot vinaigrette I used as a marinade—just shallots, apple cider vinegar, olive oil and a big pinch of salt—is my go-to, and it never fails me.

Cucumber and Mint Salad

Thinly sliced cucumber and fresh mint make a refreshing summer salad—delicious on its own as a light bite, or as a side at your next picnic or barbecue.

Tabbouleh Salad

Tabbouleh is a Middle Eastern vegetarian salad made with chopped parsley, tomatoes, mint, bulgur wheat, and lemon juice.

Mixed-Herbs Salad With Olives, Tomatoes, and Fresh Mozzarella

A medley of fresh herbs—basil, thyme, parsley, cilantro, and mint—combines with arugula, grape tomatoes, shredded mozzarella, and two types of olives for a bright, intensely flavorful end-of-summer salad.