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Not the sad side-dish kind. Composed salads that earn their place at the table — grains, proteins, something pickled, dressing built in the bowl.

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Coleslaw with apple, carrot and celery — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Coleslaw

Shredded cabbage and carrots dressed in a tangy, slightly sweet mayo-based dressing with a kick of vinegar. The secret is salting the cabbage first to draw out water — otherwise it turns soggy within an hour.

18 min160 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

Crab Salad with crab, eggs and corn — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAEasy

Salads

Crab Salad

Crab salad (krabovy salat in Russian) is an Eastern European mayonnaise salad of crab sticks (surimi), hard-boiled eggs, canned sweet corn and cucumber, an everyday dish in Russia and other countries of the former USSR. It began with canned crab meat; crab sticks, made in the USSR from the mid-1980s, turned it into a salad for any day. The eggs take 10 minutes to boil and the rest is chopping, so it is under 20 minutes of work plus 30 minutes in the fridge.

18 min280 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

Crab Stick Salad with crab sticks, canned corn and cooked rice — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Crab Stick Salad

A simple Russian salad of diced crab sticks and sweet corn with hard-boiled eggs, cooled rice, and fresh cucumber, bound with a light mayonnaise dressing. It is folded gently, chilled, and finished with green onion and dill, a New Year favourite.

30 min250 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick

Crispy Cabbage Caesar Salad with cabbage, parmesan and anchovy — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Crispy Cabbage Caesar Salad

Roasted cabbage Caesar salad with caramelized wedges, homemade anchovy dressing, crunchy croutons, and shaved parmesan. The cabbage goes into a screaming-hot oven until the edges char and the natural sugars turn to toffee — then gets the full Caesar treatment. A whole head of cabbage feeds four people for almost nothing, and it tastes better than romaine ever did.

25 min290 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick

Crispy Duck Salad with duck breasts, lettuce and cucumber — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaAdvanced

Salads

Crispy Duck Salad

Crispy duck salad is warm pan-fried duck breast sliced over crisp leaves and raw vegetables, dressed with soy, honey, ginger and sesame. The duck is cooked skin-side down from a cold pan so the fat renders out slowly and the skin turns glass-crisp, while the meat stays pink. The rich duck against cold, crunchy vegetables is the point of the dish.

45 min400 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto

Cucumber and Tomato Salad with cucumber, dill and garlic — Israel recipe

🇮🇱IsraelMedium

Salads

Cucumber and Tomato Salad

A refreshing salad that harmoniously combines the crunchy texture and delicate flavor of vegetables with a light, creamy yogurt dressing.

18 min80 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

Dense Bean Salad with chickpeas, cucumber and feta — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Salads

Dense Bean Salad

Three types of beans, crisp vegetables, briny olives, crumbled feta, and a sharp oregano-garlic vinaigrette. This recipe went viral on TikTok in 2024 because it actually works as a full meal. About 13g of protein and 11g of fiber per serving. No cooking required, 15 minutes of prep, holds 4 days in the fridge — and tastes noticeably better the next day.

15 min330 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad with Cotija, Lime, and Chili) with corn, cotija cheese and mexican crema — Mexico recipe

🇲🇽MexicoMedium

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Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad with Cotija, Lime, and Chili)

Esquites (from Nahuatl ízquitl, "toasted corn"; also sold as elote en vaso, "corn in a cup") is a Mexican street snack of charred corn kernels dressed with mayo, Mexican crema, lime juice, jalapeño, red onion, cilantro and crumbled cotija, then dusted with chili powder or Tajín. It is the off-the-cob version of elote: the same flavours, eaten with a spoon. Street vendors across Mexico sell it in small cups. The method rests on one move: charring the corn until about half the kernels show black spots, which turns boiled corn with mayonnaise into something smoky and layered. Ready in 20 minutes; serves 6 as a snack or 4 as a side for grilled meat and tacos.

20 min220 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Gado-Gado with potato, peanuts and cabbage — Indonesia recipe

🇮🇩IndonesiaAdvanced

Salads

Gado-Gado

A warm Indonesian salad of blanched and fresh vegetables, potato, and egg, drizzled with a rich spiced peanut sauce. Indonesia's national dish — gado-gado means 'mix-mix', and you can use whatever vegetables you have on hand.

30 min230 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

German Potato Salad with potatoes, vegetable stock and mustard — Germany recipe

🇩🇪GermanyMedium

Salads

German Potato Salad

Schwäbischer Kartoffelsalat is the potato salad of southern Germany: thin slices of warm waxy potato soaked in hot vegetable stock sharpened with mustard and cider vinegar, without a spoonful of mayonnaise anywhere. Germans judge it by one word, schlotzig, meaning loose and glossy, with starch from the potatoes themselves binding the stock into something between a dressing and a sauce. That takes two things the recipe below insists on: the stock goes on in two pourings, and the bowl needs a full hour standing before the salad stops tasting watery. It sits on every summer table in the south and turns up again on Christmas Eve next to a plate of boiled sausages.

45 min220 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Greek Salad with tomato, cucumber and feta — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceMedium

Salads

Greek Salad

Greek salad is a classic dish from the Mediterranean that includes fresh vegetables, olives and feta cheese seasoned with olive oil and oregano.

25 min200 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🥑Keto⚡Quick

Herring Under a Fur Coat with salted herring, beets and potatoes — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Herring Under a Fur Coat

A layered Russian holiday salad of salted herring hidden under potato, carrot, egg, and a bright top layer of beet, with mayonnaise between each tier. It is assembled in a ring and chilled overnight so the layers meld; the beet fur coat gives the salad its name.

60 min280 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free

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