Warm Winter Salads

From a warm butternut squash salad with hazelnuts to a warm potato salad with pancetta, here are warm winter salads.

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Warm Lentil and Root Vegetable Salad with Coconut Tzatziki  

Hearty root vegetables and lentils make this warm salad from Sakara Life the perfect vegetarian main dish. It's paired with a pleasantly sweet and tangy coconut yogurt tzatziki that is packed with healthy fats.

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Warm Fennel-and-Bitter Greens Salad

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Grace Parisi makes a crunchier version of chef Danielle Custer’s warm salad with bitter greens, radishes, fennel and shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

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Warm Mushroom Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette

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Chef Kevin Willmann likes using the mushrooms his local cultivators bring in. “Oyster mushrooms are the awesomest,” he says, though any mix of wild mushrooms would be delicious in this salad.

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Warm Mushroom and Charred Onion Salad  

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Fat Rice chef Abraham Conlon cooks a variety of meaty wild mushrooms with Madeira, garlic and lemon juice, then combines them with charred onions for a luscious and tangy dish. If you can't get spring onions, use a combination of small shallots and scallions.

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Warm Spinach Salad with Cannellini Beans and Shrimp

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The combination of sweet shrimp and meaty little cannellini beans here transforms a simple warm spinach salad.

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Warm Winter-Vegetable Salad

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Winter vegetables like carrots, beets, parsnips and celery root are still plentiful in March and are terrific when roasted until sweet and blistered. Sophie Dahl loves the vegetables’ vibrant colors on dreary days.

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Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette

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Preparing the salad dressing is a multistep process that includes letting chopped shallots soak up the flavors of mustard, thyme and vinegar before mixing them with olive oil.

We suggest that you start the salad dressing in a skillet (no marinating involved), then finish it in a bowl with all the other ingredients.

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Warm Duck-and-Cabbage Salad

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More and more specialty-food stores are selling duck confit legs, but in a pinch, rotisserie chicken works well, too.

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Warm Potato Salad with Pancetta and Brown Butter Dressing

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Gabriel Rucker uses nutty brown butter instead of oil in a warm vinaigrette for a summer vegetable salad.

Inspired by Rucker’s vinaigrette, Grace Parisi whisks brown butter into a tangy, mustardy dressing for creamy fingerling potatoes.

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Warm Spaghetti-Squash Salad

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Mild spaghetti squash is delicious with potent ingredients like the olives and feta in this lemony salad, which makes a wonderful starter or side dish.