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Home › Recipes › Salad Recipes › Main Dish Salads

Main Dish Salad Recipes

The unsung hero of the easy dinner button is the main course salad. That’s right, friends. Salad for dinner! And we have good news. It doesn’t need to be salad, boring, and leave you hungry after.

These salads are dressed to impress, fill, and nourish. Check out our BBQ chicken cobb salad, beef taco salad, and even big-batch salmon nicoise salad to start!

A glass meal prep container filled with spicy shrimp cobb salad.

Meal Prep

Hot Honey Shrimp Cobb Salad

25 mins

A clear meal prep container filled with Big Mac Salad.

Lunch Bowls

Big Mac Salad with High-Protein Burger Sauce

30 mins

Southwest chopped salad sits in a white rectangular serving dish. A pair of large serving spoons sit to the side.

Lunch

Southwest Chopped Salad

25 mins

Complete grinder salad sits in a large grey colored serving bowl. Shredded parmesan has been sprinkled over the top.

Meal Prep

Grinder Bean Salad

20 mins

A large serving bowl of copycat Panera fuji apple salad.

Main Dish Salads

Copycat Panera Fuji Apple Salad

30 mins

Green goddess salad sits in a glass storage container.

Main Dish Salads

Cobb Salad with Chicken and Green Goddess Dressing

30 mins

Fully dressed southwest caesar salad sits in a glass storage container. A small bottle of dressing sits to the side.

Meal Prep

Southwest Chicken Caesar Salad

1 hr

Fully prepared balsamic steak salad sits in a white bowl on a light blue surface. A glass of ice water, as well as a bowl of halved cherry tomatoes and a bowl of sliced cucumbers, sits to the side.

Main Dish Salads

Balsamic Steak Salad

1 hr

Meal Prep

Thai-Inspired Beef Salad

1 hr 25 mins

Glass bowl of shrimp salad with wooden bowl of lemon wedges in the top left corner.

Salad Recipes

Classic Shrimp Salad Recipe

22 mins

Big Batch Salmon Nicoise Salad

Food

Salmon Nicoise Salad

35 mins

taco salad on a marble surface next to a wooden cutting board topped with chopped cilantro, a halved avocado, sliced red onion, and diced tomatoes

Gluten Free

Beef Taco Salad

25 mins

a bed of spinach topped with halved tomatoes, feta cheese, cucumbers, olives, shredded chicken, hummus, and tzatziki sitting next to a jar of homemade greek dressing and two wooden serving spoons all on a marble surface

Food

Greek Chicken Salad Lunch Bowls

15 mins

a large gray bowl filled with orzo, cherry tomatoes, spinach, mozzarella pearls, and chicken with two wooden serving spoons on a marble surface

Food

Caprese Orzo Salad

27 mins

southwestern quinoa salad garnished with a lime wedge and cilantro in a glass bowl on a marble surface

Meal Prep

Southwestern Quinoa Salad

30 mins

colorful thai chopped chicken salad in an individual serving glass meal prep container with peanut dressing + crushed peanuts in the background

Meal Prep

Thai-Inspired Peanut Chicken Salad

15 mins

mediterranean chickpea salad - chickpeas, feta cheese, tomatoes, and cucumber - in a glass bowl on a marble surface with a wooden spoon inside

Gluten Free

Mediterranean Chickpea Salad

15 mins

loaded BLT Egg Salad

Food

Loaded BLT Egg Salad

40 mins

Southwestern Chicken Salad with Jicama Tortillas sitting on a taco stand in front of a tan napkin on a marble surface

Food

Southwestern Chicken Salad

45 mins

Chinese Chopped Chicken Salad

Food

Asian-Inspired Chopped Chicken Salad

27 mins

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