20 Best Fall Salad Recipes

These Fall favorite salads will get you excited to eat your vegetables.  There are so many choices that everyone will love including those with protein, fruits, nuts, grains, or squash.   Some of the best that Fall has to offer are in these salad recipes including kale, butternut squash, beets, sweet potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, apples, pear, cranberries, pomegranate seeds, nuts, pumpkin seeds, and Brussel sprouts.  Combine any or some of these Fall ingredients for a nutritious and delicious salad.

It is hard to pick a favorite here so I will let you try them and comment back so I can hear all about the ones you love and cannot wait to make again.  I start the list with two Fall salad recipes I have created and my family enjoys often as either a light lunch or a side dish option.  Start there and you cannot lose.

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SALADS BY THE SHORT ORDER COOK

SALADS WITH FRUITS, NUTS, OR SEEDS

SALADS WITH PROTEIN

SALADS WITH SQUASH OR GRAINS

SALADS BY THE SHORT ORDER COOK

Butternut Squash, Apple, and Kale Salad with Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

Butternut squash and kale make the perfect Fall salad. The crunchy pecans, crisp apples, sweet raisins, and roasted butternut squash make the most amazing Autumn harvest salad recipe.

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Pomegranate Spinach Salad with Pears & Goat Cheese

Beautiful green spinach is dressed with tangy creamy goat cheese, tart crunchy pomegranates, and juicy pears.

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Broccoli Apple Salad with Greek Yogurt Dressing (no mayo)

This healthy broccoli salad with carrots, raisins, apples, and cheese is amazing. The creamy greek yogurt dressing is low-fat and made without mayo. It is tangy, crisp, fresh, and sweet in every bite. It holds up great for potlucks and barbecues. It is even great as a leftover, unlike other salads.

 

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Asian Avocado Peanut Coleslaw

If you want an easy peanutty coleslaw recipe, this Asian avocado peanut coleslaw is the best. This chopped slaw recipe is bursting with fresh vegetables that are dressed in a homemade Asian-inspired dressing that is salty, sweet, and spicy. This slaw is vegan and gluten-free and sure to be one that everyone loves.

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SALADS BY THE BEST FOOD BLOGGERS

These Fall favorite salads offer it all; vegan, vegetarian, paleo, gluten-free, grain-free, protein-packed, or Whole30.  They all showcase the best produce that an Autumn harvest has to offer to help you create the most delicious salads.  They are creative, fancy, and so colorful.

SALADS WITH FRUITS, SEEDS OR NUTS

Brussel Sprout Salad

Break salad boredom with this healthy brussel sprout salad. Raw thinly sliced brussel sprouts, pomegranates, dried cranberries, almonds, apple, feta, and a sweet honey mustard dressing.

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Warm Harvest Salad with Cranberries and Pecans

This harvest salad recipe combines Trader Joe’s ingredients into a beautiful vegetarian salad, perfect for holidays or every day.

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Arugula Salad with Pears and Prosciutto

Arugula Salad with Pears and Prosciutto - this salad is so easy and delicious! It showcases simple ingredients into what will become your next Fall favorite salad.

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Kale Salad with Oil-Free Balsamic Vinaigrette

Kale salad with oil-free balsamic vinaigrette is a hearty and delicious side dish. The oil-free balsamic vinaigrette is massaged into the kale to make it tender and is the perfect addition to any meal.

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Roasted Beet & Goat Cheese Salad

This simple but oh so delicious roasted beet salad is bursting with crunchy candied pecans, creamy goat cheese, and a tangy homemade apple cider vinaigrette.

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Broccoli & Brussel Sprouts Salad

Crunchy and tangy, this salad that includes clementines is perfect for a light lunch or a side dish for a larger meal. It is simply beautiful and worthy of a spot on your holiday table.

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SALADS WITH PROTEIN

Meatball Salad

Tender roasted cauliflower, nutty quinoa, and flavorful meatballs that are infused with a homemade ranch dressing make this baked meatball dinner salad extra tasty.

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Chicken Apple Pecan Salad

This Chicken Apple Pecan Salad is so good. Packed full of grilled chicken, granny smith apples, pecans, grape tomatoes, and cheese on a bed of greens.

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Vegan Mediterranean Salad with Prunes

This delicious salad features all your favorite Fall ingredients. The beets, prunes, and edamame are rich in fiber to help keep you fuller for longer!

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Apple & Bacon Spinach Salad

This amazing Fall salad is loaded with salty bacon, toasted pecans, creamy avocado, sweet crisp apples, and dried cranberries, all tossed in a homemade poppy seed dressing.

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Thanksgiving Kale Salad

Add some color and freshness to your Thanksgiving spread with this delicious kale salad that also includes chickpeas and butternut squash. The wide array of flavors combine for a salad that tastes as beautiful as it looks.

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Bacon, Blue Cheese and Pecan Spinach Salad

t’s a big deal when the salad steals the show, and this is one of those times! This Bacon, Blue Cheese, and Pecan Spinach Salad is a really delicious, crowd-pleasing gluten-free appetizer or side dish, tossed with a simple homemade balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

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SALADS WITH SQUASH OR GRAINS

Warm Sorghum Salad With Kohlrabi, Apple, & Fennel

A warm sorghum salad paired with roasted kohlrabi, ginger gold apple, and fennel. This gluten-free vegan recipe is slightly sweet, comforting, and nourishing for the cold months ahead.

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Kale and Quinoa Salad Recipe with Simple Lemon Dressing

Words cannot describe how delicious this kale and quinoa salad is. Fresh kale leaves are topped with sweet crisp apples, nutritious quinoa, feta cheese, and pomegranate perils, then topped with a simple lemon dressing creating a delicious salad any time of year!

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Vegan Rice Salad With Sweet Potatoes & Kale

This Vegan Rice Salad with Sweet Potatoes and Kale is the perfect dish for Fall! The salad is loaded with healthy ingredients from wild rice to mushrooms and can be enjoyed served either warm or cold.

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Thanksgiving Salad

This filling salad with sweet potatoes, parsnips, onion, quinoa, apples, and fresh herbs, is a delicious and healthy meal. It is as if you were to put the taste of Thanksgiving in a bowl.

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Roasted Sweet Potato & Quinoa Salad

Roasted sweet potatoes, baby greens, diced red onion, and golden raisins are dressed in a tangy-sweet dressing that makes this Roasted Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad truly memorable. It's satisfying, hearty, and still healthy, making it perfect for Fall!

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Vegan Lentil Salad with Roasted Brussel Sprouts

This vegan lentil salad combines earthy lentils with flavorful roasted Brussels sprouts, mushrooms, and grapes. It’s incredibly easy to make and so versatile in how you enjoy it.

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20 Best Fall Salad Recipes

Angela

These Fall favorite salads will get you excited to eat your vegetables.  There are so many choices that everyone will love including those with protein, fruits, nuts, grains, or squash.  

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Prep Time 0 minutes mins

Course Salad

Cuisine American

Servings 4

Ingredients

  

TRY ANY OF THE RECIPES TO HAVE A GREAT FALL SALAD

• Pomegranate Spinach Salad
• Butternut Squash Apple Kale Salad
• Harvest Salad
• Pear Arugula Salad
• Beet & Goat Cheese Salad
• Chicken Apple Pecan Salad

Instructions

 

• Make one or more of these recipes.
• Enjoy

Keyword Autumn, fall, healthy, produce, quick, salad