With temps reaching up into the 80s and 90s, no one wants to spend an hour in front of a hot stove, right? Skip the hot meals and fill your menu with refreshing summer salads instead! I am a big fan of fruit salad since I’m so picky about veggies. I know most of you are far more reasonable when it comes to eating, though, so I’m sharing four delicious summer salad recipes, all created by Executive Chef at Pritikin Longevity Center + Spa, Chef Anthony Stewart.
I figure anyone who creates meals for an elegant health spa knows what he’s doing, right? Did you know that while summer salads themselves are healthy, you can easily wreck your good “food karma” by tossing on fatty dressings and toppings loading with calories? Check Stewart’s recipes all feature low-cal, healthy salad dressings. You can either find them in the Pritkin store (on their website), or look for low-cal versions of similar dressings in your grocery store.
Healthy Summer Salad Recipes
Sunshine Chopped Salad with Pritikin’s Tuscan Sunshine Italian salad dressing created
Yield: 2 cups per serving
Ingredients:
- 1 Head cauliflower
- 1 Head broccoli
- 1 Cucumber, seedless
- 1 Tomato, diced
- ¼ Cup Pritikin Tuscan Sunshine Italian Salad Dressing
- 1 Jicama, shredded
- 1 Carrot, shredded
Directions:
- Rinse and chop cauliflower, broccoli and cucumber.
- In a salad bowl heap the chopped vegetables and top with diced tomato.
- Garnish with shredded jicama and carrot. Chill and serve with Tuscan Sunshine Italian Salad Dressing.
Spaghetti Squash and Tomato Salad with Pritikin’s new Outrageous Asian salad dressing
Yield: 2 cups per serving
Ingredients:
- 2 Spaghetti squash, cut in half lengthwise and seeds removed
- 1 Cup Tomatoes, diced
- ½ Cup Basil, fresh and chiffonade
- ½ Cup Pritikin Outrageous Asian Salad Dressing
Directions:
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Place spaghetti squash cut side down on a baking tray and bake until soft (usually about 25 minutes).
- Use a spoon to scoop out the inside of the squash and cool.
- Toss diced tomatoes with basil and combine with squash and Outrageous Asian Salad Dressing.
- Toss lightly and serve.
Chef’s note:
This dressing is great as a marinade as well.
Roasted Vegetable Salad with Pritikin’s Heavenly Horseradish salad dressing
Yield: 2 cups per serving
Ingredients:
- 1 Carrot (peeled and diced into medium size pieces)
- 1 Head broccoli (cut into large florets)
- 1 Head cauliflower (cut into large florets)
- 1 Red bell pepper
- 1 Yellow bell pepper
- 1 TBSP Garlic, chopped
- 1 tsp Oregano, fresh and chopped
- ½ cup Pritikin Heavenly Horseradish Balsamic Salad Dressing
Directions:
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Rinse vegetables and drain.
- In a large bowl toss vegetables with garlic, oregano and ¼ cup Pritikin Heavenly Horseradish Balsamic Salad Dressing.
- Pour on a large baking tray and bake for 8 minutes.
- Remove and cool.
- Chill and serve with remainder of dressing as a salad.
Chef’s note:
Goes great as a side dish if served hot
Heart of Palm Radish and Corn Salad with Pritikin’s Tangy Mustard Dressing
Yield: 2 cups per serving
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Hearts of palm, fresh or low-sodium canned
- 1 Cup Radish, shredded
- ½ Cup Corn kernels, roasted
- ½ Cup Grape tomatoes
- 4 Cups Mixed greens lettuce
- ¼ Cup Pritikin Tangy Mustard Salad Dressing
Directions:
- Place 1 cup mixed greens at the base of each salad plate or bowl.
- Arrange heart of palm, shredded radish, corn and grape tomatoes on plate or bowl on top of mixed greens.
- Chill and drizzle with Tangy Mustard Salad Dressing.
I hope you enjoy these delicious and healthy summer salads! I actually really want to try the Spaghtetti Squash one. I don’t like many veggies, but I do love all sorts of squash, and I’ll eat tomatoes if they’re sliced thin.
Do you have a favorite go-to summer salad recipe? Share in the comments!
I love salads in the summer! These all sound so good.
These salads look amazing and I bet are great for these hot summer days. I’d eat a salad over anything else for every meal if I didn’t have to cook for the kids, lol. Can’t beat a good salad.
I love salads in the summer, it’s so refreshing and light! What I also appreciate about the recipes is that it takes less time to prepare than most and the best of all, you don’t really have to cook, so it doesn’t make the house warmer!
Summer is the perfect time to try new salad recipes. These all look so good, not sure which one I should try out first. Maybe the Spaghetti Squash or the Hearts of Palm.
The roasted veggie salad sounds good. I’d love to make that. The spaghetti squash and tomato one would be fun too.
These all look soo good! I need to try that squash one! I love trying new salads for the summer!
Spaghetti squash is quite interesting. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
How many times can I say YUM to those recipes. My fav thing to eat is salads.
I will definitely try these recipes! It is nice to have some new recipes that our family will love.
I love that it has cucumbers. Those are my fave!
I love the variety of salads. I need recipes like this so that I do not make the same old same old every time. Thanks for the tips
I love a refreshing salad on a hot summer day. I have recently tried spinach and strawberries salad and it is really delish.
These sound like they would be tasty. I love pasta salad as well as a simple tomato-cucumber-onion salad with some seasoning.
Spaghetti Squash salad looks soo yummy! I’m going to try that one.
i would love to try the radish salad recipe! haven’t tried that one before! I am trying to avoid anything with broccoli for now
I would love to try the spaghetti squash salad.It looks so good!