Recipes Salads 15 Bright Spring Salads We Love By Food & Wine Editors Updated on May 8, 2023 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Photo by Jennifer Causey / Prop Styling by Julia Bayless / Food Styling by Ruth Blackburn From a refreshing salad of asparagus, peas, radishes, and sugar snap peas to a burrata salad with arugula and strawberries, these spring salad recipes are perfect for highlighting all that gorgeous produce at the market. 01 of 15 Asparagus and Spring Onion Salad with Seven-Minute Eggs Photo by Christopher Testani / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey / Prop Styling by Kathleen Cook Varner Spring onions are the sweetest alliums of the year, and they play well in this salad with first of-the-season asparagus and tender lettuces. Soy and ginger team up with sherry vinegar in the tangy dressing that's perfect with the rich, jammy egg yolks. If spring onions aren't available, you can substitute scallions. Get the Recipe 02 of 15 Spring Buckwheat Noodle Salad © John Kernick British cooks Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley dress this vegetable-packed noodle salad with a deeply flavorful and tangy sun-dried tomato and Brazil nut pesto. Get the Recipe 03 of 15 Spring Lettuce Salad with Roasted Asparagus The rolling hills surrounding Lexington, Kentucky — some of the country's most expensive rural real estate — are used primarily for Thoroughbred horse grazing. "But outside that 15-mile ring are great farms," says Amber Huffman, the Jackson family's private chef. She features farmers' market lettuces here, which get warmed by roasted asparagus. Farro Recipes Get the Recipe 04 of 15 Farro Salad with Radishes, Snap Peas, Olives, and Pecorino Eva Kolenko Chewy, sweet, and earthy, farro makes the perfect base for a springtime salad. (This one tastes even better the next day.) Get the Recipe 05 of 15 Quinoa Salad with Spring Vegetables When she's cooking at home, Carla Hall likes to prepare whole-grain salads. "They're nutritionally awesome and really filling, plus they have a great neutral flavor that's a blank canvas for anything," she says. Here, she simmers red quinoa with white wine, tarragon and thyme, then tosses it with radishes, peas and lima beans. "It's important to drain the cooked quinoa or the finished dish will be watered-down and clumpy," Hall says. More Quinoa Recipes Get the Recipe 06 of 15 Shaved Beet and Carrot Salad With Citrus-Scallion Dressing Photo by Jennifer Causey / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey / Prop Styling by Thom Driver This gorgeous, colorful salad takes late-winter produce like thinly shaved beets, carrot ribbons, and rounds of juicy clementine and dresses them up for spring with a citrus-scallion vinaigrette so delicious, recipe creator Leah Koenig says, "I sneak it straight from a spoon." Get the Recipe 07 of 15 Spring Gem Salad with Soft Herbs and Labneh Toasts Photo by Jennifer Causey / Prop Styling by Julia Bayless / Food Styling by Ruth Blackburn Nancy Silverton says the first sign of spring is when she puts this salad on the menu at Osteria Mozza in Los Angeles. She dresses the asparagus, peas, radishes, and sugar snap peas with a lemon vinaigrette, then offers toasts topped with labneh alongside, turning this ode to spring produce into a light lunch or first course for dinner. The herbs are an important part of the mix; if you can't find chervil, substitute equal parts Italian parsley and tarragon. Get the Recipe 08 of 15 Strawberry Burrata Salad Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling by Debbie Wee Creamy burrata is the centerpiece of this salad of strawberries marinated in a honey and balsamic vinaigrette and served over arugula and basil leaves. Get the Recipe 09 of 15 Little Gem Salad with Toasted Spice Vinaigrette Eva Kolenko This colorful, refreshing salad of Little Gem lettuce and edible flowers is dressed with a vinaigrette that include coriander, cumin, and fennel seeds. Pair it with a lemony Sauvignon Blanc. Get the Recipe 10 of 15 Charred Avocado Salad with Cilantro Mayo Victor Protasio Searing firm-ripe avocadoes transforms them into slightly smoky, creamy treats that can be the star protein of any salad. Get the Recipe 11 of 15 Grilled Asparagus Salad © Christina Holmes Bobby Flay's sweet and smoky salad brings together sweet grape tomatoes, briny kalamata olives, and sharp white cheddar. Get the Recipe 12 of 15 Warm Lamb Salad with Fresh Herbs, Feta and Artichokes © Con Poulos One of the best uses of leftover roast lamb is this salad, featuring leftover grilled leg of lamb, tomatoes, cucumbers, kalamata olives, and feta cheese. Get the Recipe 13 of 15 Pea Shoot and Arugula Salad with Radishes and Hazelnuts © Ken Kochey With their sweet, mild pea flavor and their juicy stems, pea shoots are becoming a popular salad addition. Here, they're the perfect foil for sharp arugula and radishes, herbal fennel, and toasty hazelnuts. Get the Recipe 14 of 15 Pickled Garlic Scape and Radish Salad with Green Goddess Dressing Eva Kolenko An herby Green Goddess dressing is the creamy, rich counterpoint to the pickled garlic scapes and peppery radishes in this springtime salad. Get the Recipe 15 of 15 Sugar Snap Pea Salad Photo by Greg DuPree / Prop Styling by Christine Keely / Food Styling by Chelsea Zimmer Sweet sugar snap peas give this light summer salad from Ivan Conill’s Branch Line in Boston a satisfying crunch, while whole-milk ricotta adds heft with its mild, creamy richness. Shredded rotisserie chicken may be omitted for a vegetarian version, or you can substitute with flaked hot smoked salmon. 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