Deli salads at home!
Our top 10 recipes for meal prep-friendly dishes
Tired of the same old lunch routine or searching for the perfect crowd-pleasing dish to bring to your next potluck?
This week we’re sharing deli-style salad recipes that are anything but boring — think crisp, creamy, tangy, and deeply satisfying dishes that get even better with time. These recipes aren’t just tasty, they’re make-ahead winners designed to simplify your week or help you shine at your next potluck.
Below we’ve linked recipes from this week’s show that will shake up your bean game with a fresh, crunchy chickpea salad with an unexpected spice blend, help you build a hearty Greek-meets-fattoush salad, and will make it easy to whip up dishes that travel well, like a zippy roasted potato salad with avocado-lime dressing.
Tune into the full episode for all the details on how to start cooking up cool, crunchy, and crowd-pleasing deli salads that deliver both on convenience and taste!
RECIPE ROUNDUP:
Sonya’s herby potato salad (the dressing for this recipe is the same one she uses for her coleslaw)
Ina Garten’s coleslaw salad (similar to what we discussed, but swap some of the mayo with yogurt for extra zing!)
Jalapeno, lime, coleslaw by Joshua Bousel from Serious Eats
Whole Foods copycat cabbage crunch salad
Carmen Wilken's deviled egg macaroni salad (and her fun TikTok of the recipe!)
Alison Roman’s pasta with peas and parmesan salad
Everything bagel chickpea + white bean salad by Sarah Bond from Live, Eat, Learn
Copycat Erewhon white bean kale salad by Kale Junkie
Hetty Lui McKinnon’s roasted potato salad with jalapeno avocado dressing for NYT Cooking (unlocked)
Lidey Heuk’s Taverna salad for NYT Cooking (unlocked)
Moroccan carrot salad by Suzy Karadsheh
Check out our previous “deli salad” episode from season one!
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You had me at deli!
Loved this episode! My husband has a lot of truly weird food sensitivities, with lettuce being one of them, so I looooove a non-lettuce based salad! Big slaw fans around here. I also love how these kinds of deli salads are perfect for packing for lunch, because they get better over time! One we make a lot in the summer is a cucumber black bean feta deal with a miso-maple sauce - fabulous over a roasted sweet potato (or on its own).
Heads up your link to the everything but the bagel salad didn’t link out, so if anyone is missing it, it’s: https://www.liveeatlearn.com/everything-bagel-dense-bean-salad/