17 Salads to Round Out Pizza Night

It’s refreshing with rich winter meals, lemony and tart, with the crunch of pepitas.

The tools and ingredients needed to make an exceptional Caesar salad can be found in almost every kitchen, and the techniques are essentials every cook should know.

For this quick side dish, I kept the classic spinach salad as the base because it holds up so well to the temperature of the dressing. The leaves soften ever-so-slightly without truly wilting. I added tangy pickled onions, briny Pecorino, and toasted pecans.

This salad has big, strong flavors — bitter, sweet, salty, and pungent — and yet it’s extremely simple to put together!

When you need a simple salad to make the meal complete, this tumble of arugula and shaved fennel is all you need.

This filling, nutritious lunch salad will put you squarely in the “favorite foods” camp.

What I think makes this a winning combination isn’t just the way the flavors work together, but also how beautiful the orange, purple, and green look on the plate.

This salad mixes a dill-flecked dressing with sweet sugar snap peas, crisp celery, chopped romaine, and pretty, pink-edged radish slices that remind me of spring’s first blossoms winking to life.

This salad has just five ingredients, but together they make a stunningly unusual composition of bitter, sweet, and salty-savory.

This is a great make-ahead salad, as all the vegetables won’t wilt quickly and can actually benefit from sitting in the dressing a bit to mellow out.

Think of this as a vegetarian twist on the much–adored Salad Nicoise.

The Mediterranean flavors really shine in this simple spring salad and the roasted chickpeas add a lovely crunch. Grab a fork and dig in!

I love how easily this comes together, and the addition of the sweet raisins pair exceptionally well with the spiced chickpeas for a wonderful combination of sweet and savory.