Grilled Shrimp Salad and 5 Other Summer Salad Recipes

It’s the Summer of delicious, seasonal salads. The days are longer and the ingredients fresher which calls for creative salad construction. Whether the summer salad recipes are sides or meant to be main dishes when you have fresh seasonal ingredients the world is yours to play with.

Grilled Shrimp Salad and 5 Other Summer Salad Recipes

Grilled Shrimp and Corn Salad with Avocado

This grilled shrimp and corn salad with Avocado can be a main dish salad or piled high on a tostada or in taco shells or even served like ceviche with chips.

Strawberry Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese & Rhubarb Shrub Vinaigrette

A delicious Summer salad served as a first course along with grilled meats is the Strawberry goat cheese Spinach salad.

Orzo, Pepper and Basil Salad

This Salad is great for a lunch on its own or with a piece of fresh grilled fish or beer can chicken as a side.

Spicy Asian Tuna Salad

Spicy Asian Tuna Salad is packed with protein and can be eaten in a Pita, on a salad, or served in a hollowed-out cucumber boat or half a pepper. During the heat of Summer when lettuce is in abundance serve atop the salad or stuffed into a lettuce leaf.

Creamy Cucumber Salad

This Creamy Cucumber Salad is at home with a pile of grilled chicken thighs or mounded into pita bread as a sandwich or served alongside a piece of chilled smoked salmon for a ladies’ lunch.

Creamy Dill Summer Salad Dressing

A creamy dill salad dressing to use all summer long.

However, you make your salads be creative, add plenty of acid and seasonings and serve them in a variety of ways to carry up the presentation. Whether they are plated, in a bowl, on a platter or composed let each ingredient shine and be the star of your salad show.