Kitchen Tips How To Dinner Fix The 12 Best Chopped Salads to Make for Dinner Right Now Quick, easy, and inexpensive to pull together, these winning main dishes are here to make your life so much easier. By Stacey Ballis Stacey Ballis Stacey Ballis is a novelist, cookbook author, freelance food and lifestyle journalist, and recipe developer who specializes in culinary fiction, and empowering home cooks to create extraordinary cooking and dining experiences for themselves and their loved ones. Allrecipes' editorial guidelines Updated on July 12, 2023 Close Photo: Meredith Food Studios When it comes to dinner, salad always sounds like a prelude and not the main attraction. But a great salad can be both filling and satisfying. And with warmer weather here, having some easy, no-cook salad suppers at hand will make for fabulous dinners all season long. Pro tip: Main dish salads are an excellent lighter option for potlucks and barbecues! Get your summer salad game on point starting this week with our 10 best chopped salads to make for dinner. 01 of 12 Chopped Salad with Buttermilk Dressing Allrecipes Magazine A fresh ranch-like dressing enhances this veggie-forward salad. This is a perfect side dish on its own, but adding some grilled chicken or steak is a complete meal in a bowl. Want to make it a vegetarian main dish? Toss in a can of drained chickpeas or some cubes of crispy fried tofu. View Recipe 02 of 12 Cobb Salad Kim's Cooking Now A classic Cobb salad might be the original chopped salad that eats like a meal. Beautifully composed stripes of chicken, egg, blue cheese, bacon, and avocado offer a visual wow factor, and the flavors are terrifically punchy. This version calls for ranch dressing, but it works with vinaigrettes, blue cheese, or red French-style dressings as well. View Recipe 03 of 12 Spicy Southwest Chopped Salad with Salsa Verde linda2d Bring some Southwest flair to your chopped salad by making a vibrant avocado and corn salsa to top grilled chicken and lettuce with black beans. View Recipe 04 of 12 Chopped Brussels Sprout Salad PeanutKrow If you think Brussels sprouts are just for roasting, this raw shaved salad will change your mind. It has a Dijon shallot vinaigrette, and is enhanced with almonds and cranberries, which makes it a perfect side dish. Just add a filet of grilled salmon or some pulled pork for a complete meal. View Recipe 05 of 12 My Big Fat Greek Salad Kim's Cooking Now A traditional Greek salad might be one of the most refreshing dishes out there, with a bright red-wine vinegar dressing and enhanced with feta cheese, kalamata olives, and fresh oregano. While this salad is a vegetarian entrée all on its own, you can up the protein by adding chickpeas or serving with grilled shrimp or chicken. View Recipe 06 of 12 Kale and Feta Salad France C Kale is one of those hearty greens that makes a salad truly satisfying. This version leans into sweet to temper the bitterness with apple and currants; the sweet nuttiness of pine nuts and salty feta round out the plate. Want to next-level this salad? Top it with grilled skirt steak. View Recipe 07 of 12 Chopped Turkey Salad with Grapes Kim A leafy salad topped with a scoop of chicken or tuna salad is classic. This version swaps in a creamy turkey salad for a fun twist, and adds grapes for pops of sweetness. View Recipe 08 of 12 Chorizo-Spiced Party-Sized Chopped Veggie Salad Soup Loving Nicole Chorizo, that spicy fresh Mexican sausage, is one of those flavor profiles that just sings. This fun chopped kale salad takes the flavors in that sausage and creates a salad dressing with all of the zing and none of the meat! Even better, this generous salad is ideal for a crowd, so bring it to your next summer potluck or BBQ. View Recipe 09 of 12 Whole Plant Chopped Salad Soup Loving Nicole Sometimes you want a salad that will literally go with anything. This whole plant chopped salad is just what you are looking for, made of ingredients you can find easily all year long and enhanced with whatever your favorite dressing is! View Recipe 10 of 12 Baja Salad Baking Nana Bring some Mexican-inspired flair to a basic salad with avocado, corn, black beans, and crispy tortilla chips; a lemon cumin dressing ties it all together. This is a complete meal on its own or a perfect side dish for fajita night! View Recipe 11 of 12 Chef's Salad with Grilled Chicken and Black Pepper Ranch Meredith Food Studios This restaurant staple is like a Cobb salad, but with cubed Cheddar instead of blue cheese. Chopped iceberg lettuce is supplemented with butter lettuce or your favorite greens, and tossed with a fresh herb dressing. Feel free to add your own flair, like cubed ham or sliced olives. View Recipe 12 of 12 Salad Nicoise LynnInHK Transport yourself to the South of France and enjoy a cold plate of summer. This famous composed salad features canned tuna, anchovies, and olives, along with blanched green beans, new potatoes, and hard-cooked eggs. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit