Category: Salads

This salad offers up flavor, texture, and nutritional benefits with ingredients like tempeh, kale, radish, and red onion. It’s refreshing and hearty at the same time, making it a diverse salad that’s great for any season, whether it’s warm or chilly outside. Add your favorite whole grain like quinoa or wheat berries to make it a complete meal!

Warm grains mixed with winter veggies create a hearty salad that is both satisfying and nourishing to the body and the soul. Not to mention, the array of colors create a beautifully presented dish!

The sweetness from the peaches combined with the crunchy sweet and salty pecans, along with the fresh spring greens, barley and lemon shallot dressing give this salad its A+ reputation. It satisfies all categories—flavor, texture, nutrition and overall satisfaction.

Something about the rich creaminess of the cashew sour cream with the cooling and crunchy cucumbers makes this dish especially appealing. Adding even more to this salad is dill. Other herbs would be delicious as well. Feel free to swap parsley, cilantro or basil in place of dill or a variety of fresh herbs from your garden!

Put a new spin on those Romaine leaves by grilling them briefly on the stovetop for a warm and crispy Romaine salad. Hardy Romaine is perfect for grilling due to its sturdy ribs down to the center. Add crunchy toasted sunflower seeds and sweet pomegranate seeds on top make for a fancy and delicious light appetizer or side to your main course.

Millet has a very delicate flavor and is easy to prepare, making it a very versatile grain that can be made into a breakfast cereal, grain bowl, bread (using millet flour), and tossed in a salad, like this Thai-inspired delight. What’s more, it has 6 grams of protein per cup and is packed with minerals like iron, selenium, and zinc!

This meal is a great example of how you can optimize plant-based nutrition in a salad. As you probably know, you can get lots of protein from nuts and seeds. Walnuts have 4 grams of protein per ounce and come with other essential nutrients like fiber, essential fatty acids, and phytonutrients. Tahini has almost 3 grams of protein per tablespoon plus calcium, copper and selenium. Amaranth is a pseudograin with more protein than any other grain at 9 grams per cooked cup. And, kale has boatloads of other nutrients like beta carotene, iron, and calcium. This salad is nourishing and satisfying!

If you’re a fan of traditional Waldorf Salad then we bet that you’ll love this version even more. If not, we’re feeling pretty confident that we can convert you. Tart cherries with toasted walnuts and a creamy yogurt dressing come together to make an incredible snack or side dish to your main meal. Plus, it’s packed with phytonutrients from the cherries, omega 3’s from the walnuts and probiotics from the dressing. Let us know what you think below!

This salad might set the bar, with its flavor bursts and nutrient density. Shiitake bacon is bursting with flavor and complements the kale and edamame perfectly for a light meal. Not to mention they all bring plant-powered nutrients that are healing and nourishing. Make it even more complete and satisfying by adding a scoop of whole grains.