Summer’s here, no time to waste! It’s salad season – better yet, it’s speedy salad season, so you spend less time in the kitchen, and more time soaking up the rays. It means tomatoes and capsicums, basil and mint, cool watermelon and even colder noodles; perhaps some poached chicken or cooked prawns too. Throw them in, toss them around – that’s your summer salad done. Easy. Plus, many of these speedy, summery salads are also perfect to make for Christmas lunch.
Grain salad with dukkah and pickled pomegranate
Heirloom tomatoes and peaches with white bean and hazelnut tarator
Baby vegetable slaw with grapefruit and tarragon
Shaved zucchini, fennel and mint salad with burrata
Fig, pomegranate and burrata with Sherry vinaigrette
Zucchini salad with pecorino, currants, sunflower seeds and lemon
Louis Tikaram’s cucumber and snow pea salad
Mike McEnearney’s grilled prawn, watermelon and tomato salad
Simple tomato and onion salad with vincotto dressing
Chicken noodle salad with turmeric-lime dressing
Mike McEnearney’s fig salad with roast onions, walnuts and radicchio
Mexican-style tuna salad with grapefruit, avocado and fennel
Rice noodle salad with grilled steak, lime and Vietnamese mint
Bert’s zucchini, stracciatella and basil salad
Zucchini, guanciale, mozzarella and fregola salad
Vietnamese-style beef and vermicelli salad
Thai grilled pork salad with green mango
Smoked trout, carrot and quinoa salad with harissa dressing
Rice salad with peas, mint, zucchini, lemon and pine nuts
Poached chicken and millet salad with peas and mint
Chorizo and asparagus salad with chimichurri
Quinoa salad with pomegranate, pumpkin and ashed goat’s cheese
Prawn and soba noodle salad with sesame-ginger dressing
Chicken, roast plum, labne and grain salad
Sichuan chicken salad with chilled noodles and cucumber
Chicken, radish and bean salad with tarragon dressing
Char-grilled capsicum salad with sherry vinaigrette
