Fresh, quick, and kid-friendly—these summer salads are perfect for lunches, dinners, potlucks, or beach days. Easy to prep, pack, and enjoy wherever the season takes you.
When the weather heats up, nothing beats the ease and freshness of a good salad. Whether you're packing a quick lunch for the beach, prepping a light dinner after a long sunny day, or contributing to a potluck with friends, these summer salad recipes are just what you need. They're easy to make, full of vibrant ingredients, and perfect for enjoying outdoors or on the go.
From crisp leafy greens to hearty pasta salads, refreshing fruit mixes to protein-packed bowls, there's something here for everyone—even picky eaters. These recipes are not only quick to prep, but they're also portable, family-friendly, and loaded with seasonal flavor. Whether you’re feeding a crowd or just need a no-fuss dish for yourself, these summer-ready salads are sure to become repeat favorites.
Rice Salad With Tuna and Eggs is a quick and nutritious summer main dish, made simply by mixing boiled rice with hard-boiled egg wedges and crumbled tuna fillets in a bowl.
This zucchini rice recipe is full of cubes of zucchini, flaked tuna, and fragrant lemon zest that is refreshing and full of summer flavour. While this rice makes a wonderful side dish, it is also great as a light main since it contains your protein, starch, and vegetables in one dish.
This viral cucumber salad with red onion and Greek yogurt is creamy, tangy, and refreshing. Made in a jar and ready in 10 minutes — perfect for summer!
Beet and Potato Salad is a quick and easy side dish, ideal to accompany any meat or fish dish. A tasty, nutritious and easy to make recipe, perfect to propose also as a single dish to complete with crumbled feta, goat cheese, hard boiled eggs or smoked salmon and wild rocket.
Bean Salad is a quick and very tasty dish, excellent for summer. It can be prepared in very little time and is perfect to eat both as a side dish, for any family lunch or dinner, or as a main dish, if accompanied by fragrant slices of toasted bread or a portion of rice, spelt or quinoa.
Mediterranean Pasta Salad is a simple and tasty main dish for summer, ideal to bring to the table in the warmer months, when you really don't feel like cooking. A practical, inviting and colorful recipe, ready in just a few minutes, here made with a quick and tasty "raw" sauce, and with mezzi rigatoni: to be replaced at will with farfalle, penne rigate, fusilli, conchiglie or another short format of your choice.
These Fennel Salad recipes are crisp, refreshing, and full of vibrant Mediterranean flavors. Whether paired with fruit, nuts, or bold olives, fennel brings a uniquely sweet and aromatic crunch to any dish. These three simple variations—apple & walnut, orange & black olive, and carrot & pomegranate—are perfect for lunch, side dishes, or light starters.
Avocado salad is a fresh and colorful recipe, perfect for the summer season . The star of the dish is this tropical fruit, originally from Central America and now also grown in Italy, especially in Sicily, where it has found its ideal habitat, thanks to the warm climate and fertile lava soil.
Mediterranean Veggie Quinoa Bowl is a light, healthy and colorful main dish, perfect to eat cold or at room temperature during the summer season. To prepare it properly, it will be important, as a first step, to rinse the quinoa thoroughly under running water in order to eliminate every trace of saponin: a resin with a bitter taste, produced by the plant itself to protect itself from insects and pathogenic microorganisms.
Tabbouleh is a fresh and fragrant Lebanese dish, typical of Middle Eastern countries: a salad made with bulgur, vegetables and aromatic herbs, simple, quick and perfect for the summer season.
Traditional Panzanella is one of the most famous dishes of Tuscan cuisine, a sort of salad of stale bread and vegetables, fresh, light and incredibly tasty, ideal to enjoy in the summer. Also known as pansanella or panmolle, it can be found in other regions of central Italy including Marche, Umbria and Lazio, but today we present the original recipe for Tuscan panzanella which is prepared with the typical bread sciocco (in the sense of unsalted, without salt), cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions and fresh basil.
Chicken Potato Mayo Salad is a creamy and tasty one-dish meal: a variation of the classic potato salad or chicken salad, excellent to enjoy cold for a spring or summer family lunch or to put in the picnic basket on a day trip. It is an easy recipe that everyone can make and, if prepared a few hours in advance, will give its best: in this way, in fact, the ingredients will blend together better, absorbing flavors and aromas, and the final result will be even more appetizing.
Mediterranean Tuna Couscous Salad is a fresh and colorful main dish perfect to prepare during the spring and summer, when the heat is felt and the desire to stay in the kitchen decreases more and more. It is a quick recipe, ready in a few minutes, excellent to propose also as a light and satisfying main dish, for a lunch in the office or at during a potluck.
Mediterranean Chicken Couscous is a satisfying and tasty dish, perfect for all seasons. It is a richer alternative to the vegetable version, ideal for surprising your guests with a unique dish with an exotic touch, to be enjoyed both warm and cold. Convenient to prepare even in advance, it can be distributed in elegant glasses and served as finger food at a buffet or birthday party.
Mediterranean couscous is a vibrant and refreshing dish, with a fusion of textures and tastes, that captures the essence of the sun-soaked Mediterranean.
Pantesca Salad is a typical recipe of Sicilian tradition, in particular of the island of Pantelleria, to which it owes its name. It is a fresh and tasty side dish, ideal for summer, but excellent to enjoy all year round, made with boiled potatoes, cherry tomatoes, Tropea red onion, black olives, capers, an island specialty, and fresh basil.
Homemade Caesar Salad is a rich and tasty salad invented in 1924 in Tijuana, Mexico, by the Italian-born chef Cesare Cardini, from whom the dish took its name.
It’s a perfect complement to grilled meats and fish, but can even be enjoyed on its own for a light lunch. Chicken and Corn salad is surprisingly simple to make. Cooked chicken is shredded and tossed with crisp corn kernels and usually accompanied by cherry tomatoes, olives, and basil, creating a cool, refreshing salad bursting with flavor and texture.
Tuna Potato Salad is a simple and tasty dish, a cold summer salad, to be prepared instead of a classic potato salad, a versatile recipe that you can serve as a side dish, main course or as an appetizer. It can be made ahead of time and enjoyed for lunch or dinner.
Caprese Salad is a cold summer appetizer typical of the region of Campania, a recipe originating from the island of Capri – hence its name – made with tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, oregano and extra virgin olive oil.
Chicken salad is a much-loved staple dish for picnics, or barbecues. It's packed with tender pieces of cooked chicken, crunchy celery, and green onions tossed in creamy mayonnaise.
Chickpea salad is a healthy recipe to enjoy during picnics and barbecues. It's made of tomatoes, cucumber, red onions, avocado, and chickpeas, tossed in a lemon garlic dressing.
Green bean potato salad is a versatile, make-ahead recipe perfect for warm days or holiday season. It's made of green beans, potatoes, canned tuna, oil and chives.
Today, let's dive into the vibrant flavors of Procida with a unique dish, the Lemon Salad. This refreshing salad capitalizes on the island's famously sweet lemons, which boast a much lower acidity, making them perfect for more than just garnishing and flavoring.
Tuna salad is an easy, fresh recipe you can serve as a side. Packed with protein, mayonnaise makes it a little creamy while shallots and celery make it a little crunchy.
The octopus salad is a seafood appetizer typical of Mediterranean cuisine. It is a fresh and tasty dish made of boiled octopus pieces dressed with olive oil, parsley, lemon juice and salt.
To make this salad a complete single dish you can accompany it with slices of toasted bread or with boiled or steamed rice; bring it to the sea or to work and you will not regret it. So let’s see how to make the Mexican salad.
Watermelon feta salad is a quick, sweet-savory side recipe. It's made of sweet watermelon, avocado, red onions, cucumber tossed with a garlic-lime dressing and topped with salty feta.
Waldorf salad is a tasty side or appetizer recipe perfect for holiday season. It's made of sweet-tart apples, celery, grapes, and walnuts tossed with mayo and served on a bed of lettuce.
Fruit Salad is a fresh and colorful dessert. Ideal to serve at the end of a meal or as a healthy and regenerating snack, it is prepared with the fresh seasonal fruit that you like most.
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