A nice little change up from your regular pasta or potato salad is our Asian Rice Salad. Served chilled, the combo of tender wild rice, crunchy cashews and water chestnuts are addicting! We also add baby corn to get more veggies in there. Best part? It’s easy! It’s gotta be easy or it just doesn’t show up here! This…
Salad recipes
Here at Laughing Spatula, we love a good salad! Full of flavor, veggies and protein, you’ll never know that what you’re eating is healthy. Be it our Tex Mex Salad with Chipotle Lime Vinaigrette, our Homemade Whole30 approved Lemon Dijon Dressing, or our Fall Salad with apples and pecans we have your salad recipes covered here at Laughing Spatula.
Salads do not have to be boring! We love salads as a side but also as a meal!
Caesar Pasta Salad
A new spin on a classic! Caesar Pasta Salad has crunchy romaine and tender pasta for the perfect salad any time of year! A delicious easy to make caesar dressing with no egg that takes only 5 minutes and crunchy homemade croutons! Everyone loves a good pasta salad and just like our Greek Pasta Salad…
Easy Homemade Caesar Dressing
We are big fans of Caesar salads around here and this one comes together in a flash. We used mayo as the base for a creamy dressing that will last for up to a week in your refrigerator! It takes only 5 minutes to whip up, and keeps your salad nice and crunchy! The early version…
Cauliflower Potato Salad – Low Carb/KETO Recipe
This Cauliflower Potato Salad is low carb and KETO but believe me…you won’t care what it is. It’s just delicious! Fresh steamed tender cauliflower all mixed up with your favorite pot salad fixings…everything but the carbs! I was a little hesitant with this recipe. I thought how could cauliflower, a veggie more on the bland…
Autumn Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Maple Cider Vinaigrette
Autumn Salad with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Maple Cider Vinaigrette! Using mostly prepped store bought ingredients, this salad is a breeze to make and will feed a crowd! Crisp apples, toasted pecans, blue cheese crumbles, bacon and roasted sweet potatoes! All mixed together in a super easy to make Maple-Dijon and Lemon Vinaigrette. How to Make…
Fresh Corn and Avocado Salad with Honey Lime Vinaigrette
Fresh Corn Salad with Avocado – A no cook crunchy, big flavored salad. Served with a super quick Honey Lime Vinaigrette! If you love the crunch of fresh corn you are going to love this salad! It’s surprising how delicious corn is when left in it’s crunchy natural state! WHY WE LOVE THIS FRESH…
Greek Pasta Salad
This big flavored Greek Pasta Salad is packed with crunchy veggies, chunks of feta and salty olives. Tossed with a super simple lemon vinaigrette, it is the perfect side dish! This salad packs a big punch of crunch! Packed full of fresh veggies along with salty olives and fat chunks of feta it will become…
Asian Slaw with Sesame Peanut Dressing
Crunchy and Fresh Asian Slaw with an easy to make Sesame Peanut Dressing ! Perfect side dish for chicken, fish or burgers! Full of fresh crunchy veggies, this recipe goes with everything. A perfect salad for all seasons! We first had this at my friend’s place in Palm Springs. She served this delicious…
The Best Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe
What makes this Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe the best? Everything! Blueberries, feta and our dear friend avocado. Along with a delicious two minute Poppy Seed Vinaigrette recipe…it is THE BEST! Feels like spring time to me! This salad has been in our lives for a very long time. We eat variations of it for…
Easy Poppy Seed Dressing
In about two minutes you can whip up a batch of this delicious homemade Easy Poppy Seed Salad Dressing! This Poppyseed Dressing is delicious on all kinds of salad. Veggie, fruit or pasta! No need to run to the store and buy the bottled stuff. This easy to make dressing is made from ingredients you…
Crunchy Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing
This Crunchy Thai Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing packs a ton flavor! We used store bought rotisserie chicken and crunchy veggies…but this salad, it’s all about the dressing! And wait till you see how quickly it comes together! This delicious recipe will have you falling in love with salads again! A creamy Thai style dressing the…
Chickpea Salad
How about this Fresh, Crunchy, Easy to Make Chickpea Salad to kick off the promise of Spring! Tons of veggies including crispy cucumber, red peppers and spinach. Tossed up in our 1 minute Greek style vinaigrette! Oh crunchy delicious spring salad, where you been? It’s been a long winter here in Seattle and as much…
BLT Salad with Ranch & Avocado
My mom used to make this BLT Salad with Ranch & Avocado when I lived at home, and it was always my FAVORITE! Yes, this is a salad. No, it’s not a ‘healthy’ salad. BUT- The Super Bowl is coming up this weekend and I thought instead of wings, dip, or anything deep fried,…
The Best Greek Yogurt Honey Mustard Dressing or Dipping Sauce
This Greek Yogurt Honey Dijon Dressing tastes too good to be healthy! Do you love salads but hate ‘diet’ salad dressing? We have a game changer recipe for you! I love salads…I do! I order them even when I don’t have too…ya know, like when you are trying to lose a few pounds. But dressing…
The BEST Italian Chopped Salad You’ve Ever Had
I kid you not when I say this will be the best Italian chopped you’ve ever had. Why? You ask? First off- it’s an Italian chopped salad, which in itself can do no wrong. It’s chock full of Italian goodies, AND it’s healthy AND this recipe includes a delicious, do-it-yourself Lemon Basil vinaigrette. I know,…
