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10 Fresh Salad Recipes Perfect for the Summer

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With summer right around the corner, slowly simmered soups and hearty stews make way for salads and lighter and refreshing snacks. Summer recipes typically feature a blend of fresh ingredients and bright flavours and should come together easily. As temperatures warm up, fresh produce and crisp salads take center stage on our tables, easily becoming the main course rather than the usual side dish.

Our stoneware serving bowls are the perfect piece of serveware for fresh garden salads, featuring Le Creuset’s classic design and a smooth interior glaze. Accommodating between three and four servings at a time, our Serving Bowls are ideal when entertaining friends and family. For individual servings, our Cereal Bowls or wider and flatter Coupe Pasta Bowls provide the perfect backdrop for all your favourite salad recipes.

Here are 10 of our favorite salad recipes you can prepare this summer ahead of your next get-together.

Our Favourite Salad Recipes

Our list of salad recipes is equally nutritious as they are packed with flavour, featuring fresh ingredients and their own unique flavour profile. From our Panzanella Salad with Grilled Halloumi to the classic Fruit and Tomato Caprese Salad, these recipes can quickly become summertime staples in your household.

Spring Salad

Spring Salad

Looking for the perfect recipe to welcome in the summer and warmer temperatures? Look no further than our Spring Salad. This recipe combines a number of fresh summer vegetables including carrots, radishes, beets, turnips, and a generous selection of mixed greens. Add in a dollop of goat cheese and let this delicious salad come together for the ultimate summer treat.

Our Stainless Steel Bowl is ideal for preparing the vinaigrette offering the ideal piece of serveware for the olive oil, orange juice, and vinegar to combine wonderfully. The end result is a well-balanced salad, making for a great dish when entertaining groups of up to six people.

Whether you are hosting guests over a pool party, or simply want to impress your family with a unique salad recipe, this Spring Salad has you covered and can be prepared in less than 30 minutes!

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Cucumber and Radish Shrimp Salad

Cucumber and Radish Shrimp Salad

Our Cucumber and Radish Shrimp Salad recipe is everything you need in a summertime snack: Healthy, delicious, and easy to put together, be sure to make enough for seconds, and even thirds, because this recipe has all the makings to become a crowd-favorite. Do not say we did not warn you!

Featuring cucumbers and radishes, our Cucumber and Radish Shrimp Salad offers the perfect balance between refreshing vegetables and delicious shrimps. Finish this recipe off by adding dandelion leaves and orange segments for a restaurant-worthy presentation. The Toughened Nonstick Pro Fry Pan is the only piece of cookware you’ll need for this recipe, sautéing the green onions until wilted.

This healthy and delicious salad recipe makes for a great snack in-between meal, offering a nutritious meal that is sure to whet the appetite. This recipe goes from your fry pan to the table in less than 30 minutes, providing a hassle-free salad for home cooks and experienced chefs alike.

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Kale and Carrot Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

Kale and Carrot Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette

Our Kale and Carrot Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette is beloved by home cooks for its simplicity, coming together in two simple steps. While this recipe may be easy to put together, it is not lacking in flavour, featuring a light citrus vinaigrette, kale, spinach, and carrots.

Begin by puréing the shallots, orange juice, oil, mustard, salt and pepper in a blender or mini food processor until smooth and creamy and your salad is just about ready.

When complete, toss the remaining ingredients in our Stainless Steel Mixing Bowls and voilà – a delicious salad for the whole family. This recipe serves up to eight portions at a time, but can easily be adjusted for individual portions, taking less than 30 minutes to prepare.

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Spinach Salad with Grilled Zucchini, Peas, Feta and Mint

Spinach Salad with Grilled Zucchini, Peas, Feta and Mint

Our Spinach Salad with Grilled Zucchini, Peas, Feta, and Mint makes for a truly show-stopping main course, elevating traditional salad recipes. This recipe balances out the heartiness of the zucchinis with a delicate dressing and thinly sliced feta.

Preparing the dressing is as simple as combining Dijon Mustard, honey, olive oil, red wine, and fresh lemon juice in a jar and giving it a good shake. What truly makes this salad stand out, however, is the addition of grilled zucchinis. The Square Skillet Grill is the ideal piece of cookware for this recipe, helping you achieve inch-perfect grill marks on the zucchinis before toasting the almonds.

Grab your Olive Branch Oval Platter and serve up this delicious salad for your family and friends to enjoy! This recipe accommodates between four and six servings, in under 30 minutes, making it a perfect option when you are pressed for time.

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Panzanella Salad with Grilled Halloumi, Peaches, Spring Vegetables and Edible Flowers

Panzanella Salad with Grilled Halloumi, Peaches, Spring Vegetables and Edible Flowers

Celebrate the arrival of summer this year with our daring Panzanella Salad with Grilled Halloumi, Peaches, Spring Vegetables, and Edible Flowers. This recipe refines traditional salad recipes, injecting some much-needed substance with the addition of the grilled halloumi and spring vegetables.

Be sure to have your Square Skillet Grill handy – you are going to need it! This versatile piece of cookware can be used to enhance the halloumi’s texture and flavour-profile from the comfort of your own home. Featuring an enamelled cast iron construction and a black satin interior, our Square Skillet Grill is perfect for searing ingredients.

Our Panzanella Salad with Grilled Halloumi can be served on its own, or as a hearty side dish, complementing main courses of all sizes. Gently position the edible flowers on the serving dish along with basil and kale leaves before serving and enjoy!

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Green Spring Salad with Sugar Snap Peas and Feta

Green Spring Salad with Sugar Snap Peas and Feta

Whether you are looking to shake things up in the kitchen, or are looking to add greens to your diet, our Green Spring Salad with Sugar Snap Peas and Feta recipe has you covered. Equally delicious as it is aesthetically pleasing, this recipe is a great way to ring in the summer with bites of freshness at every turn.

The beauty of this recipe is the simplicity of which all the rich flavours and ingredients come together. Simply toss the greens in our Large Classic Serving Bowl, add the snap peas, and a generous helping of feta cheese, and this recipe is good to go.

This Green Spring Salad has everything needed to become a summertime favourite amongst friends and family, offering between four and six portions in under an hour. Be sure to incorporate fresh summer vegetables of your choice depending on personal preference or what is in season!

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Asparagus and Smoked Salmon Salad

Asparagus and Smoked Salmon Salad

Hosting a summertime brunch? Bid adieu to age-old waffle and egg recipes and try your hand at this delicious Asparagus and Smoked Salmon Salad. After all, it would not be brunch without a few surprises at the table.

Combining the perfect blend of fresh asparagus, snappy radishes, and a bright vinaigrette, this recipe has its place on any brunch spread. Light, nutritious, and healthy, this recipe elevates this traditional pairing for the perfect brunch snack.

The Round Dutch Oven creates the ideal environment for boiling the asparagus and the eggs, locking in heat and moisture thanks to its tight-fitting lid and thick, enamelled cast iron walls. The end result will be crisp-tender asparagus and eggs served on a perfectly-sized blank canvas, our Classic Serving Platter.

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Lemon Trout with Zucchini Salad

Lemon Trout with Zucchini Salad

Trout may not be the first ingredient that comes to mind when preparing salads, but rest assured, this zesty version is sure to give this age-old ingredient a new lease on life. Our Lemon Trout with Zucchini Salad makes for a quick and easy meal that will not be lacking one bit in flavour.

The lemon trout is bathed in a vibrant mix of fresh herbs and oil, including fresh dill and bay leaves, before cooking to perfection in the Iron Handle Skillet. This iconic piece of cookware has been carefully crafted to expose ingredients to a consistent heat source, all-while creating the ideal environment to baste it in its own juices.

Serve the trout filets in the Iron Handle Skillet with the salad on the side in our Classic Cereal Bowls! The combination of flavours and texture is sure to leave an impression.

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Fruit and Tomato Caprese Salad with Burrata and Roasted Grapes

Fruit and Tomato Caprese Salad with Burrata and Roasted Grapes

Preparing fresh summer salad recipes should be all about having fun in the kitchen and this recipe embodies exactly that feeling. Our Fruit and Tomato Caprese Salad with Burrata and Roasted Grapes combines vibrant colours and textures with a restaurant-worthy presentation.

Pick up fresh stone fruit at the local farmers market, including peaches, nectarines, and apricots, mix in a simple vinaigrette along with cherry tomatoes and grapes, and let the natural flavours take over! The addition of burrata adds some much-needed creaminess to this salad, offering the ultimate summertime snack.

Serve this delicious salad in our oven-to-table Heritage Oval Casserole or Square Dish and be ready to leave your guests impressed!

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Beet Slaw

Beet Slaw

Easy to prepare and delicious, our Beet Slaw recipe is ideal for complementing a full table spread offering the crunchy side. This recipe combines cremezola cheese with mayonnaise, yogurt, and garlic, all coming together for a delicious blue cheese ranch dressing.

Your knife skills will be on display in this recipe so be sure to grab your Chef’s Knife. Once the dressing is ready, thinly slice the beetroot, cabbage, and pickled onions before mixing it in and serving this delicious salad in our Classic Coupe Pasta Bowls. For a thoughtful final touch, garnish with edible flowers and micro herbs!

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Ring in the Summer with Fresh Salad Recipes

Salad recipes are a great way to make the most of the incoming summer harvest and all the season’s freshest ingredients. From experimenting with vinaigrettes to incorporating new ingredients and flavours, these recipes offer a refreshing twist to lunch, dinner, or even in-between meals.

Whether you are looking for a midday bite before heading out to the park, or simply want to prepare a lighter dinner for the whole family to enjoy, there is nothing more fitting than a delicious salad after a long day spent in the sun. Be sure to grab our stoneware serving bowls and salad plates and ring in the summer in style with Le Creuset this year.

These were just 10 of our favourite fresh, summer salad recipes, but for more inspiration, visit our full list of recipes and our blog before you get cooking!

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