Salad

This charred broccoli salad with swooshes of rich broccoli-tahini sauce is for you, broccoli stans!

The key to tabbouleh, a bright, herby salad from the Levant, is to use a very sharp knife so that you can slice through the parsley and mint just once.

If you aren’t into bitter greens, this salad from vegetable maestro Bryant Terry may change your mind.

Regulars of the Mayflower Inn in Washington, CT, have been known to revolt when this tomato salad isn’t on the menu.

Easy, cheesy, beautiful mozzarella fritters. 

An extra-thick Caesar dressing gives this tomato salad its oomph—and keeps it from sogging out at the picnic.

We’ve got moisture insurance (a tadka-ish sauce!) for these grilled chicken breasts.

If you love the sour-salty-sweet Thai green papaya salad, you’ll love this peak-summer version made with tomatoes and cucumbers.

Make the most of juicy summer stone fruit with this sweet-and-salty Vietnamese-inspired farro salad, studded with grilled corn and ripe plums.

Tomatoes are the perfect match for the acidic, sweet, and slightly-funky dressing that tops this bright, wonderfully herbaceous salad. 

Take sweet, juicy melon into the realm of dinner with a hit of Taiwanese black vinegar. (Chile crisp, fish sauce, and fried shallots help, too.)

When you start with good kimchi, all you need is a little neutral oil to make a vinaigrette that will flatter any selection of raw and blanched vegetables.

In this dish from southeastern Turkey, chewy, nutty bulgur meets sour-sweet pomegranate molasses meets spicy Aleppo-style pepper meets crunchy-cool lettuce cups.

A spring dinner that takes 15 minutes to prepare! Throw together the asparagus, arugula, and avocado salad in the 10 minutes it takes the fish to roast.

Bright and tangy vegan ranch slathered over vibrant herbs and peppery watercress make this salad a summertime standout

This salad is a textural dream—creamy Tepary beans, sturdy dandelion greens, crumbly goat cheese—but our favorite part might be the bright cranberry-sumac dressing.

Did somebody say fried cheese? Halloumi drizzled with honey and aromatic thyme makes for an ideal sweet-salty-crunchy appetizer.

This refreshing, saucy cucumber salad will cool you down all summer and is fun to make with kids in the kitchen.

Think of this elegant warm chicken salad as the grown-up version of the deli-case stuff, starring dates, olives, and almonds.

Crispy chickpeas and gorgeous red endive just made your lunchtime tuna salad a lot more exciting.