Vegetable salad recipe selection including beetroot and watercress and sweet pepper salad.
The following recipes contain only vegetables, fruit, nuts or seeds. This does not mean, however, that only vegetarians should eat them.
We have been extremely imaginative with our vegetable salad recipes and have come up with some highly creative dishes. Some of our recipes consist of one or two ingredients flavoured with herbs and spices and drizzled in a tasty dressing, whilst others contain numerous varied fruits and vegetables and other ingredients.
These salads, more than others, resemble an artist's palette as they are awash with colour and varied shapes and textures.
Many people would not always choose to eat fruit in a savoury dish and would reserve them solely for puddings, desserts and sweet recipes; however, many fruits are extremely complementary to certain vegetables, especially if these are acidic or strong-flavoured. Why not try out our popular cucumber and strawberry salad with balsamic dressing? This combination may seem a little strange but it is in fact extremely popular in other cuisines.
Our vegetable salads are very healthy and with most of them, you will be getting your recommended 5-a-day intake all in one go. Ideally, these salads should be served as starters or accompaniments to a meal of meat or fish.
Ensure that you make plenty of dressing to drizzle over the salads, as often, it is the dressing that makes the salad and not the content. A perfectly concocted dressing can really liven up and give added dimension to a plate of vegetables. One of our favourite salad dressings consists of olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, honey and parsley, as seen in our recipe for multi-coloured salad.