Summer-supper salads
Make-Ahead Tips
Here's how to maximize the light flavour, texture and looks of these summer salads.
• Reserve up to 1 cup (250 mL) of the cooking liquid when draining the pasta and add as much as you want when tossing the salad to moisten
Summer salads are fresh, glorious additions to hot-weather meals. And salads using sturdy ingredients are great make-ahead dishes to take away for the weekend or to a family reunion, birthday bash or barbecue. These delectable salads have lots of healthful ingredients -- beans, wheat berries, fresh vegetables and whole wheat pasta and couscous -- and, since the oil is kept to a minimum, are nicely coated but not swimming in dressing.
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Recipes
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Chickpea and Black Bean Salad
Canned beans are a must to have on hand for satisfying salads. For a vegetarian meal, serve with grilled portobello mushrooms and bread such as corn b... -
Red Potato Salad with Caramelized Onions and Sage
Available in some supermarkets, sherry vinegar adds a mellow yet assertive note to the dressing. Red or white wine vinegar is a good substitute. -
Wheat Berry Tabbouleh
Wheat berries (soft wheat kernels) give a nutty chewiness to this version of a popular takeout salad. Look for them in health and bulk food stores as ... -
Couscous and Lentil Salad
This cool kitchen salad needs only boiling water to cook the couscous. -
Roasted Cauliflower Salad
This is not your usual pasta, potato or grain salad but rather one that features the mellow flavours of roasted cauliflower. Anchovies, capers, olives... -
Sesame Soy Bow Ties
Give your barbecue a break with this crunchy toasty main-course salad from our July 2004 issue "Summer-Supper Salads" collection of nine cool ... -
Orzo and Mushroom Salad
Orzo, a small rice-shaped pasta, gives a pleasant texture to totable salads. Other small pastas, such as tubetti or farfallini, are just as delicious,...
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