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A collection of 60 recipes for turning ordinary salads into one-dish worthy meals.

Does anybody need a recipe to make a salad? Of course not. But if you want your salad to hold strong in your lunch bag or carry the day as a one-bowl dinner, dressing on lettuce isn´t going to cut it.

Make way for Mighty Salads, in which the editors of Food52 present sixty salads hefty with vegetables, meats, grains, beans, fish, seafood, pasta, and bread. Think shrimp and radicchio tossed in a bacon vinaigrette, a make-ahead jumble of white beans with charred lemon and fennel, slow-roasted duck and apples scattered across spicy greens. It´s comforting food made captivating by simply charring one ingredient or marinating another-shaving some, or roasting a bunch.

But because we don´t always follow recipes, there are also loose formulas for confident off-roading, as well as back-pocket tips and genius tricks for improving any old salad. Because once you know how to fix too-salty dressing, wash greens once and for all, keep an avocado from browning, and even sprout your own grains, the humble salad starts looking a lot more interesting-and a whole lot more like dinner.

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Contents

LEAFY SALADS
Grilled Peach & Apricot Salad with Kale and Prosciutto 3
Petits Pois à la Fran‡aise Redux 4
Featherweight Slaw 7
Antipasto Chopped Salad 8
Hoppin´ John Salad with Crispy Cornbread 13
Cobb Salad with Hard-Boiled Egg Dressing 14
Caesar-Style Kale Salad with Roasted Onions 17
Radicchio & Cauliflower with Currant-Anchovy Vinaigrette 18
Roasted Grape, Butternut Squash & Kale Salad 21
Chard Salad with Garlic Breadcrumbs & Parmesan 22
Wilted Escarole with Feta & Honey 26

LESS-LEAFY VEGETABLE SALADS
Shaved Asparagus with Burrata, Radish & Cucumber 31
Fried Eggplant, Tomato & Peach Salad with Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette 32
Corn-Barley Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette 35
Charred Okra Succotash Salad 36
Grilled Mushroom & Fig Salad 39
Roasted Potato Salad with Mustard-Walnut Vinaigrette 40
Roasted Broccoli Rabe, Chickpea & Crispy Salami Salad 43
Carrot & Radicchio Salad with Fig-Balsamic Vinaigrette 44
Charred Broccoli & Lentil Salad 47
Shaved Brussels Sprouts, Endive & Apple Salad 48

GRAIN & BEAN SALADS
Toasted Farro & Asparagus Salad 53
Grilled Ratatouille & Bulgur Salad 54
Smoked Lentil Salad with Sriracha Miso Mayo 56
Coconut Rice Salad with Mango, Bell Pepper & Lime 59
Farro & Golden Beet Salad with Chive-Sage Dressing 60
Radish & Pecan Grain Salad 63
Sprouted Mung Bean, Carrot & Date Salad 65
Wild Rice Bowl with Tofu, Sweet Potatoes & Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette 69
Mushroom & Mixed Grains Salad with Carrot-Harissa Vinaigrette 73
Freekeh, Fennel & Smoked Fish Salad 74
Brown Butter Brussels Sprouts & Crispy Quinoa 77
Roasted Chickpea Salad with Za´atar 78
White Bean Salad with Fennel Three Ways 81

PASTA & BREAD SALADS
Baby Artichoke, Fregola & Pistachio Aillade Salad 85
Spring Vegetable Panzanella 86
Bagna Cauda Egg Salad on Rye Toast 89
Lemony Greek Pasta Salad 90
Grilled Bread, Broccoli Rabe & Summer Squash Salad 93
Half-Blistered Tomato Pasta Salad 94
Sort of Tabbouleh with Jammy Onion Vinaigrette 97
Peanut Noodle Salad 98
Curried Cauliflower Fattoush 101

FISH & SEAFOOD SALADS
Radicchio & Shrimp Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette 105
Grilled Lobster Salad with Lemon-Thyme Butter 106
Seared Scallop Salad with Black Lentils & Garlic-Sesame Crumbs 109
Fresh Corn Cakes with Crab-Tomato Salad 110
Halibut Escabeche Taco Salad 113
Herbed Tuna & Israeli Couscous Salad 115
Salmon & Beet Salad with Cherry Vinaigrette 116
Shrimp Ceviche with Caramelized Tangerine Vinaigrette 119

MEAT SALADS
Chicken & Rice Salad with Poached Radishes and Nuoc Cham 123
Chorizo & Summer Melon Salad 124
Steak & Tossed Salsa Verde Salad 127
Bloody Mary Steak Salad 128
Spicy Chicken Salad with Rice Noodles 131
Grilled Lamb Kebabs with Tomato-Cucumber Salad 132
Curried Chicken, Grape & Cheddar Salad 135
Slow-Roasted Duck & Apple Salad 136
Thai Pork Salad with Crisped Rice 139

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