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Quick Fix and Easy Main Dish Salads

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Lighten your dinner with Easy Main Dish Salads featuring chicken, couscous, and fresh veggies for a wholesome meal.

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Easy Main Dish Salad Recipes

When you want salad for dinner or a heartier meal, these main dish salad recipes are the perfect choice!

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Oval platter with chopped lettuce, chicken, black beans, avocado, cherry tomatoes, corn, red onion, and cilantro-this chicken taco salad recipe is served with a creamy dressing on the side.
15 Minute Chicken Taco Salad Recipe
This 15 Minute Chicken Taco Salad recipe is a quick and hearty dinner made with cooked or rotisserie chicken, crisp lettuce, black beans, corn, avocado, cheese, and an easy salsa ranch dressing. Fresh, colorful, and packed with taco flavor!
15 Minute Chicken Taco Salad Recipe
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A bowl of southwest chicken salad with grilled chicken, avocado, cherry tomatoes, greens, yellow bell pepper, and sprouts on a wooden board, with corn on the cob and chips in the background.
Southwest Chicken Salad Recipe
Enjoy this zesty Southwest Chicken Salad with grilled chicken, mixed greens, corn, cherry tomatoes, avocados, and crispy strips. Plus, a healthier southwest salad dressing.
Southwest Chicken Salad Recipe
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A white plate of chicken salad with grilled chicken, lettuce, cucumbers, avocado, cherry tomatoes, peach slices, and leafy greens sits on a wooden board.
15 Minute Chicken Salad
This 15 Minute Stone Fruit Chicken Salad is a fresh and colorful main dish salad with pan-seared chicken, juicy peaches or nectarines, avocado, tomatoes, cucumbers, fresh herbs, and a sweet-tangy hot honey vinaigrette.
15 Minute Chicken Salad
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A wooden bowl filled with cobb salad-leafy greens, cherry tomatoes, avocado, bacon, feta cheese, a sliced boiled egg, and creamy dressing-sits on a white table with a fork and napkin beside it.
Chicken Cobb Salad with Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing
This Chicken Cobb Salad with Avocado Ranch Dressing is a fresh and hearty main dish salad made with juicy chicken, crisp bacon, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, blue cheese, avocado, and crisp greens. Finished with a creamy homemade avocado ranch dressing, it's a colorful dinner salad that's ready in under 30 minutes.
Chicken Cobb Salad with Avocado Ranch Salad Dressing
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A bowl of fresh broccoli salad with sliced almonds, parmesan cheese, and green onions, served on a white bowl placed on a striped cloth. A fork is resting inside the bowl.
Broccoli Salad with Farro Recipe
A salad with plenty of texture and flavor, one of my new salads loves is this healthy Charred Broccoli Salad with Farro, Chickpeas, and Almonds.
Broccoli Salad with Farro Recipe
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A bowl of salmon salad with grilled chicken slices, lettuce, spinach, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red onion, and shredded cheese, served with wooden utensils and a jar of dressing on the side.
Salmon Salad Recipe
This quick and wholesome Salmon Salad with Citrus Dressing is packed with fresh veggies, flaky roasted salmon, and bright Mediterranean flavors-ready in 20 minutes!
Salmon Salad Recipe
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Grilled Salmon fillet on a bed of harvesst greens including roasted butternut squash, avocado and fresh blueberries.
Healthy Harvest Salmon Salad Recipe
This Harvest Salmon Salad is a healthy, quick-fix meal for lunch or dinner. It's a delicious assortment of flavor and texture with grilled salmon, sweet potatoes, avocado, greens, and more. It's fall-season healthy food in the most delicious, easy-to-make way.
Healthy Harvest Salmon Salad Recipe
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A bowl of vibrant couscous salad topped with flaked salmon, cucumber, tomato, feta cheese, green onions, and arugula sits beautifully on a wooden board.
Mediterranean Couscous Salad with Smoked Salmon
Mediterranean Couscous Salad is a light and healthy summer salad, lightly dressed in olive oil, and topped with incredibly delicious smoked salmon.
Mediterranean Couscous Salad with Smoked Salmon
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A bowl of la scala chopped salad with lettuce, chickpeas, shredded cheese, and slices of cured meat sits on a wooden board.
La Scalia Chopped Salad Recipe
This iconic chopped salad is finely diced, flavor-packed, and endlessly craveable-just like the original from La Scala in Beverly Hills. Perfect for lunch, dinner, or entertaining!
La Scalia Chopped Salad Recipe
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Top view of Tuna Salad on a white plate with greens, fresh herbs, and sliced radishes.
5 Minute Tuna Salad with Radish and Greens for Quick & Easy Lunches
Enjoy a delicious and easy Tuna Salad recipe with a bright and fresh twist. Perfect for a protein-packed lunch or sandwich.
5 Minute Tuna Salad with Radish and Greens for Quick & Easy Lunches

More Salad Recipes to Try

  • This Kale Salad is filled with healthy greens, sliced apples, shredded carrots and toasted almonds. A delicious, hearty vegetarian meal we love!
  • If you love chickpeas and chopped salads, this Mediterranean Chopped Salad recipe is chockful of good-for-you ingredients like cucumbers, tomatoes, and Greek olives.
  • If you're looking for inspiration for a crisp green, this Simple Spring Salad features all the season's flavors in a simple salad to serve as a side dish!
  • With only 4 ingredients, this Spinach and Pea Salad embodies everything we love about the spring season. It's delicious, easy and healthy!
  • This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad is a 10 minute meal that's perfect for lunch or as a side!

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Stephanie Wilson

Cookbook Author, Food Writer, and Chef

Stephanie Wilson is the founder of 31Daily.com, where she shares seasonal recipes, weekly meal plans, and teatime favorites to help readers gather around the table with joy. A certified private chef, cookbook author, and longtime event planner, she brings over 20 years of experience in catering, food writing, and media production—including network television work as a producer, director, and writer. Her work has been featured by Today.com, The Kitchn, Parade, and more.

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