Healthy & delicious summer salads

Looking for a lighter, fresher summer recipe for lunch or dinner? Try one of our healthy summer salad recipes. From healthy green salad recipes to healthy fruit salad recipes, each summer salad recipe is chock full of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Each of these healthy salad recipes is more delicious than the next leaving you with a collection of healthy summer salads to last you all season long.

Orange-Walnut Salad with Chicken:

INGREDIENTS

• 1/3 cup walnut oil
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon freshly grated orange zest
• 1 teaspoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
• 3 cups mixed greens
• 1/2 cup diced or shredded cooked chicken breast (see Notes)
• 1 orange, cut into segments (see Notes)
• 2 tablespoons crumbled goat cheese
• 2 tablespoons toasted walnuts (see Notes)
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PREPARATION

1. Place oil, orange juice, vinegar, garlic, orange zest, soy sauce, salt and pepper in a bowl or a jar with a tight-fitting lid; whisk or shake until well combined.
2. Place greens in an individual salad bowl; toss with 2 tablespoons of the dressing. (Refrigerate the remaining dressing.) Top the greens with chicken, orange segments, goat cheese and walnuts.

Vegitable Egg Salad:

INGREDIENTs

• 3 tablespoons nonfat plain yogurt
• 3 tablespoons reduced-fat mayonnaise
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 8 hard-boiled eggs (see Tip)
• 1/2 cup finely chopped carrot
• 1/2 cup chopped cucumber, peeled and seeded if desired
• 1/4 cup sliced scallions

PREPARATION

1. Combine yogurt, mayonnaise, pepper and salt in a medium bowl.
2. Halve eggs and discard 4 of the yolks (or save for another use). Add whites and the remaining 4 yolks to the bowl and mash to desired consistency. Gently stir in carrot, cucumber and scallions.k9ob

Summer Tomato, Onion & Cucumber Salad:

INGREDIENTS

• 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, or more to taste
• 2 medium cucumbers
• 4 medium tomatoes, cut into 1/2-inch wedges
• 1 Vidalia or other sweet onion, halved and very thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh herbs, such as flat-leaf parsley, chives and/or tarragon

• PREPARATION

  1. Whisk vinegar, oil, honey, salt and pepper in a large shallow bowl.
  2. Remove alternating stripes of peel from the cucumbers. Slice the cucumbers into thin rounds. Add the cucumber slices, tomatoes and onion to the dressing; gently toss to combine. Let stand at room temperature for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour.
  3. Just before serving, add herbs and toss again.