Salad Recipes

Easy Low-Carb Greek Salad is a classic side salad dish that works with any Italian or Greek main dishes.  Add chicken breast, lamb, or shrimp and watch this salad come alive as a main course.

Chopped Salad adds delicious crisp flavor to balance the richness of your main dish. Add spinach and blue cheese or use mixed greens to "mix it up". This basic salad works great as a filling and nutritious side dish to any cuisine.

Low-Carb Marinated Asparagus Salad is similar to a recipe brought back from France by Thomas Jefferson.

Recipe Tester Burma rates this Low-Carb Asparagus-Strawberry Salad a perfect 10 and says, "It's one of those dishes that would evoke a 'wow' because it's so pretty, and it tastes as good as it looks. The results belie the lack of time and effort required."

A light and fantastic salad for summer. It screams "Fresh" right in your ear and makes you glad you planted that single tiny zucchini plant in your garden!

Low-Carb Kaleidoscope Salad is beautiful, delicious, and makes a vat‑full! This is especially good with anything that has a Tex-Mex accent.

Green and red and purple and yellow, plus a gorgeous salmon-pink dressing. You’ll make a big hit at the party with this, but you’ll be really happy to have it with the same old Tuesday chicken.

A simple Low-Carb summer side dish that is made with steamed fresh green beans and tender carrots. A very tasty and definitely low-carb recipe, and one you can enjoy making during the summer or all year long!

Don't forget salads on your Low-Carb diet. Here's a salad that turns deli roast beef into a company dinner.

I stole this Caesar Salad with Olives and Pine Nuts idea from Truffles, a terrific restaurant here in Bloomington. Do use good quality olives—I used half green, half black, packed in olive oil, from our superb local gourmet grocery Sahara Mart. A great Fat Fast salad.

Low-Carb Gluten-Free Dijon-Garlic Tomatoes and Cucumbers makes a great summer side dish. It's cool and refreshing, and the longer you marinate it, the better it tastes. It double easily if you're having a large crowd for over for dinner.