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Adam Liaw's leaf salad with parsley vinaigrette.

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30+ simple salad and dressing recipes to keep up your sleeve

These recipes will become your go-tos when you need a little something on the side. Pick and (salad) mix and choose your signature dressing.

31 recipes
Green goddess dressing drizzled over lettuce with bonus bacon bits.

Jill Dupleix's green goddess dressing (and dip)

  • Jill Dupleix
Neil Perry's cos lettuce with parmesan dressing.
EASY

Simple salad recipe: Cos lettuce with parmesan dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Japanese green avocado salad.
EASY

Japanese green avocado salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Rocket and pickled fennel salad.
EASY

Rocket and pickled fennel salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Good green salad with fried-onion vinaigrette.
EASY

Good green salad with fried-onion vinaigrette

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
A simple leaf salad is the perfect partner to just about anything: a bit of salmon cooked in a pan for five minutes, a steak, roast chook or a cheese platter.
EASY

Leaf salad with parsley vinaigrette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Broccoli, cos lettuce & pancetta with a broccoli stalk yoghurt cream.
EASY

Broccoli, pancetta, mint and macadamia salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Raddichio with raisins and parmesan.
EASY

Raddichio with raisins and parmesan

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Simple fennel salad with olives and lime.
EASY

Fennel salad with olives and lime

  • < 30 mins
  • Alison Roman
Radicchio, rocket, walnut and apple salad.
EASY

Radicchio, rocket, walnut and apple salad

  • < 30 mins
The Blue Ducks' simple Scandi salad.
EASY

Simple butter lettuce, radish and dill salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
A simple salad with some lime zing.
EASY

Apple, beetroot, radish and buttermilk salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Mark LeBrooy and Darren Robertson
Olive and parmesan slaw.
EASY

Olive and parmesan slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pear and charred fennel salad with a hint of chilli.

Pear and charred fennel salad

  • Mark LeBrooy and Darren Robertson
Rockpool salad
EASY

Rockpool salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Brussel sprout and fennel salad.
EASY

Brussels sprout and fennel salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Broccoli and sesame salad.
EASY

Broccoli and sesame salad

  • < 30 mins
Celery, lemon and parsley condiment salad.
EASY

Celery, lemon and parsley condiment salad

  • < 30 mins
The bitter leaves could include rocket, radicchio, parsley and rocket (as pictured).
EASY

Bitter leaves, lemon and capers

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Cos and nashi salad with gochujang chilli dressing.
EASY

Cos and nashi salad with gochujang dressing, cashews and sesame

  • < 30 mins
Mustard slaw.
EASY

Mustard slaw

  • < 30 mins
Cucumber salad.

Fresh and spicy cucumber salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Lynne Mullins
Shaved zucchini, snow peas, almonds salad.
EASY

Shaved zucchini, snowpeas and almonds

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Radish, broad bean, butter lettuce and rocket salad.
EASY

Radish, broad bean, butter lettuce and rocket salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
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Pear is a lovely addition to a green salad.
EASY

Pear, rocket and radish salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Give your coleslaw a kick with this harissa dressing.
EASY

Quick green slaw with harissa dressing and pepitas

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Lettuce with very versatile buttermilk dressing.
EASY

Cos lettuce with very useful dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Japanese tomato salad.
EASY

Japanese tomato salad

  • Adam Liaw
Cherry tomato salad
EASY

Cherry tomato salad with Japanese onion dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Keep them fresh: Adam Liaw's spring greens salad.

Spring green salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
A simple side salad for pasta.
EASY

Rocket, pear and parmesan salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy