13 Recipes for Hearty, Meal-Worthy Salads

This cauliflower, pomegranate and pistachio salad isn’t just a salad. It’s the crunchy, crispy, no-lettuce-allowed salad of our dreams.

A tart and savory fried tofu and herb-packed salad that just happens to be vegan.

This is precisely the work lunch you always wish you had packed, with lots of lentils to keep you full ’til at least 3 p.m., kale (for health!), salty olives, crunchy nuts, and just the right amount of cheese.

It’s truly as easy as boiling water and tossing in a few key ingredients.

There’s so much flavor in this satisfying dish that guests may not even notice that yam ma-khuea yao is meat-free.

Avocado toast learns a few tricks from panzanella.

Healthy, easy to make and makes a great vegetarian side dish or lunch in under 30 minutes.

Zinging with lemon, nutty with tahini, flecked with parsley, topped with almost-smoky roasted chickpeas and then some chopped salted pistachios.

Juicy, tender chicken, crisp bacon, apples, figs and almonds with a honey Dijon vinaigrette.

Seasonal crunchy vegetables get served over yogurt and topped with crunchy, nutty dukkah in this Israeli salad.

A fresh and satisfying noodle salad with creamy avocado and grilled shrimp.

There are many dishes served with peanut sauce in Indonesia, but none are more famous than gado-gado, which literally translates from Indonesian as ‘mix-mix.’

Toasted bread soaks in a delicious balsamic vinaigrette but DOES NOT get soggy.