Brown Rice Salad
Nutty brown rice tossed with red pepper, green onions, walnuts and raisins in a ginger-soy dressing.
Category
Salads
18 recipes
Cauliflower Watercress Salad
Steamed cauliflower florets tossed with peppery watercress, spring onions and a garlicky French dressing, finished with toasted sesame seeds.
Chef Salad
The old stand-by chef salad made a bit healthier, with avocado, turkey, ham and low-fat Swiss over mixed greens, minus the bacon and blue cheese.
Chinese Cabbage and Watercress Salad
Shredded napa cabbage, watercress and orange segments tossed with a mint honey dressing.
Jerusalem Salad
The finely diced cucumber, tomato, celery, radish and avocado salad of a teenage summer abroad, eaten for breakfast with cheese and good bread.
Lentil Tomato Salad
Firm green lentils tossed with tomatoes, spring onions, celery and parsley, dressed with a tomato garlic dressing.
Mixed Greens and Tomato Salad with Toasted Seeds
Arugula, mustard greens, spinach and beet greens with tomato wedges, toasted seeds and a mustardy balsamic dressing.
Mixed Vegetable Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette
The salad I made from the last vegetables in the house the morning the power came back after Hurricane Sandy, with a garlicky balsamic vinaigrette.
Multicolor Tomato Salad with Burrata
Red, green and burgundy tomato wedges around creamy burrata, dressed simply with olive oil, balsamic and basil.
Multicolor Tomato Salad with Grilled Eggplant
Yellow, green and red tomatoes layered with salted and sautéed eggplant, shaved Parmesan and a drizzle of walnut pesto.
Roasted Chicken Caesar Salad
A variation on a theme: lemon-rosemary roasted chicken shredded over four greens and tossed with a homemade Caesar dressing.
Salad Dressings
Nine simple house dressings, from a tomato-garlic blend and a yogurt dressing to a classic homemade mayonnaise.
Salad Niçoise
Grilled tuna, haricots verts, new potatoes, eggs and the small purplish olives of Nice, composed on Bibb lettuce with a pesto-balsamic dressing.
Salmon Salad with Roasted Beets, Vegetables and Kale
Seared salmon over romaine and kale with foil-roasted beets, golden zucchini and a Dijon-chive dressing; halibut or scallops work just as well.
Shrimp Caesar Salad
Quickly roasted tail-on shrimp over romaine with garlic croutons and a homemade anchovy-Parmesan Caesar dressing.
String Bean, Tomato and Red Onion Salad
Crunchy parboiled string beans with peeled tomato wedges, red onion, basil and toasted sesame seeds in a balsamic-Dijon vinaigrette.
Traditional Cole Slaw and Potato Salads
Two foolproof barbecue standbys: a buttermilk-lightened cole slaw and a classic potato salad with egg, onion and Dijon.
Warm Goat Cheese Salad
Breadcrumb-crusted rounds of Bucheron fried for under a minute and set over mesclun, arugula and toasted walnuts in a shallot-Champagne vinaigrette.