Salad
Vegan Sour Cream and Onion Dip
The best plant-based substitute for sour cream? Plant-based cream cheese. When blended, it best approximates the flavor and texture of sour cream. Top the bowl with crispy fried shallots for additional brightness and texture.
Pipinna Sambola
This cucumber salad is a staple dish in my household. I am not sure why it is so satisfying, but I’m inclined to think it’s its simplicity.
67 Avocado Recipes for Creamier Dip, More Satisfying Salads, Better Breakfasts, and More
We all love to mash our avocados with lime and cilantro. But that’s not all this buttery, creamy fruit is good for.
Spicy and Creamy Slaw
This super-flexible, all-purpose salad turns cabbage into luscious tangles of crisp leaves generously coated in a rich and bright dressing.
Miso-Butter Roast Chicken With Acorn Squash Panzanella
This chicken comes with a crispy, craggy bread and squash salad that has all the buttery, herby flavor of classic stuffing.
49 Ways to Cook (and Drink) Pomegranate
These little gems can be used for so much more than just juice.
Caesar Salad Roast Chicken
This isn’t your average Caesar salad. Here, the chicken gets smothered in Caesar dressing then roasts until the garlic, anchovies, and mustard become deeply caramelized and flavorful.
23 Celery Recipes That Prove There's Much More to It Than Ants on a Log
Not that there's anything wrong with a simple snack.
43 Perfect Pear Recipes for Crumbles, Tarts, Salads, and More
Fall is the time to roast them, poach them, and bake them into a cake.
Maple and Chile Roasted Squash With Quinoa Tabouli
Brush butternut squash with maple-chile oil before roasting, then top with a lemon-tahini dressing and herby quinoa.
Sesame-Scallion Chicken Salad
This reimagined chicken salad is lighter and leafier than your standard picnic lunch. Tender poached chicken, crisp greens, cukes, and scallions get tossed with a sesame dressing that takes its cues form gomae, a Japanese spinach salad.
Sour Cream and Onion Potato Salad
Some would call showering potato salad with potato chips “gilding the lily.” We would call it “extremely sensible and incredibly tasty.”
Tropi-Cobb Salad
Tender lettuces get topped with juicy spiced chicken, ripe mangos, soft avocado, and cherry tomatoes. There's so much flavor and texture going on that there's barely a need for a dressing: just a hit of lime juice, salt, and EVOO, and dinner is done.
Make a Dent in Your Cucumber Supply With This Weeknight Meatball Dinner
If meatballs aren’t at the top of your salad mix-in power rankings, this combination of flavorful pork and crunchy cukes might earn them a spot.
All the Tools You Need to Make Truly Great Salads
If you're simply dumping your ingredients into a small bowl and giving them a quick toss, you're doing your salad—and yourself—a disservice.
9 Cooks on Their Favorite Throw-Together Dinners
On the late summer days when cooking isn’t in the cards, these are the dishes we whip up.
Fancy and Beautiful Tomato Salad
Very loosely inspired by Lebanese fattoush, this is one of those dishes where you want to use only the ripest, most fragrant tomatoes in the bunch.
This Peach and Tomato Salad Is Summertime Thrift at Its Best
Hot pickled peppers, a smattering of bacon, and crisp cubes of bread round our this budget-friendly high-summer dinner.
Charred-Peach Panzanella With Pickled Pepper Vinaigrette
Peaches and tomatoes might not sound filling, but hear us out. Crisp some bacon, char the peaches (and some bread) in the rendered fat, toss the tomatoes in a garlicky, spicy brine, and you’ve got dinner.
Salad Ramen
Fresh ramen noodles become a dreamy throw-together summer meal thanks to a kaleidoscope of crunchy veggies and a tangy pantry-staple dressing.