Be sure to try this amazing Grilled Sirloin Steak Salad Recipe with Watermelon with a homemade balsamic vinaigrette!
Salad Recipes
Whether you're looking for something light and delicious or a whole meal loaded with salad greens, we've got several amazing salad recipes that are nothing short of perfect!
From a classic Caesar salad, to the healthy Green Goddess, or to a creative twist on a Taco Salad, there are an assortment of delicious salad recipes right here on BillyParisi.com
Summer Panzanella Salad Recipe with Pesto Vinaigrette
A delicious summer panzanella salad utilizing leftover bread, ripe peaches, grilled chicken, greens and tomatoes and topped off with a tasty homemade pesto vinaigrette for a truly amazing salad. The Panzanella salad was invented in Italy, simply because we are the best! Just kidding 🙂 Seriously though, the Italians, like many European cultures do a…
The Best Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe with Chicken
This strawberry and spinach salad is light, refreshing and served with avocado, quinoa, feta cheese, lemon marinated grilled chicken and a poppy seed vinaigrette for the ultimate summer salad. If you love salads and getting creative with what goes in them, then look no further than this strawberry spinach salad. It has a wonderful combination…
Summer Salad Recipe with Quinoa and Creamy Poppy Seed Dressing
Delicious summer green salad that is jam packed with fresh berries, avocado, tomatoes, peaches, quinoa, and grilled chicken with a refreshing cream poppy seed dressing. Summer is peak season for fresh berries, peaches, tomatoes and lettuce greens, making it the perfect time to make this summer salad recipe. While it seems odd to add fresh…
Chicken Taco Salad Recipe with Avocado Lime Dressing
Taco salad gets a serious makeover! Roasted corn, avocado, grilled chicken and watermelon radishes tossed in an avocado lime dressing for the perfect all around salad recipe. Looking for a fun new twist on taco salad? I’ve made some serious upgrades to this lunch room classic and this one is sure to be your new…
Green Goddess Salad Recipe
Green Goddess Salad recipe is jam packed with fresh vegetables, rotisserie chicken and an amazing homemade green goddess salad dressing. This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Bob’s Red Mill. The opinions and text are all mine. I am feeling so good, and this green goddess salad is reaffirming what I’m…
Shaved Brussel Sprout Salad Recipe
If you are looking for an absolutely delicious detox salad then for sure check out this shaved brussel sprout salad that is loaded with apples and vegetables for an unbelievable flavor. It is detox time, which means it’s shaved brussel sprout salad time in my house. I’ve been eating like a wild man lately and…
Root Vegetable Panzanella Salad Recipe
If you love salads then this easy to make full flavored Root Vegetable Panzanella Salad Recipe is going to be a new favorite of your! I absolutely love panzanella salads! Talk about an undervalued salad that over utilizes all available ingredients, no matter if they are fresh or a few days old. We had a really…
Poached Salmon Salad Recipe with French Green Lentils
Try this detoxing Poached Salmon Salad Recipe with French Green Lentils that is packed with vegetables and greens in a balsamic vinaigrette. I always say how I love summer produce the most and how the variety is so much more grand, but after this poached salmon salad recipe, I think my perception has changed a…
Classic Salad Nicoise Recipe with Mustard and Lemon Vinaigrette
Classic Salad Nicoise Recipe with Mustard and Lemon Vinaigrette: this salad nicoise recipe is packed with romaine, potatoes, green beans, olives, hardboiled eggs, and other veggies in a lemon vinaigrette. At least once a week we indulge in an all-out vegetable fest and this Classic Salad Nicoise Recipe hit the nail on the head! I…
Lemon Chicken Chopped Salad Recipe with Soy Vinaigrette
Be sure to try this delicious and refreshing Lemon Chicken Chopped Salad that is loaded with Summer veggies!
Caprese Salad Recipe with Homemade Cornbread
Cornbread Caprese Salad: Immediately up your salad game with this delicious caprese style salad with homemade cornbread, burrata cheese and reduced white balsamic vinegar. Now that I’m into the early summer months you better believe the corn and tomatoes are in full swing in my house. I do actually love those winter root veggies, but…
Spring Salad Recipe with Farro and Lemon Thyme Vinaigrette
Spring is in the air and the weather outside is just starting to turn for the better. Winter’s here in Chicago are long and cold so it’s no wonder the city starts to erupt in March with more and more folks chomping at the bit to get outside at any sign of 40°+ weather. …
Kale and Brussel Sprout Salad Recipe with Beets and Fried Goat Cheese
I am back at it this week with this insanely delicious Kale and Brussel Sprout Salad Recipe with Beets, Sweet Potatoes, Dried Cherries, Pistachios, Bacon and Fried Goat Cheese tossed in a tasty creamy red wine vinegar dressing. I know I keep telling you that we are pushing to incorporate more greens into our diet…
Smoked Chicken Greens Salad with Zucchini and Cilantro Lime Dressing
There are two things that I’ve really enjoyed preparing over the last year, making homemade bread and smoking food, see this smoked chicken recipe. Making bread is therapeutic and delicious, smoking is time consuming and delicious :-). I’ve only been smoking food for the last few years and up onto that point I didn’t have…
Kale Salad with Apples and Roasted Acorn Squash Recipe
You all know it’s that time of year where everyone is setting goals like crazy. Whether it’s getting in the gym, losing weight or heck even trying to pay off debt, all of us are looking for that reset button, including me! I didn’t work out on January 1 mostly because our church had a…
Winter Salad Recipe with Roasted Butternut Squash and Pomegranate Seeds
I know, it’s a winter salad from Chef Billy Parisi that has close to 9,000 ingredients in it. I realize quite a few of my recipes have a decent number of ingredients in it but man once I’m creating something I being to think, “Well this other thing would go great in here, and then…
Butter Leaf Lettuce and Quinoa Salad with Oranges
The goal of every single recipe that you make should be the balance of flavors. The right amount of sweet, sour, umami and salt will always render a perfect flavored dish, however it’s not that easy to achieve on a consistent basis. I do find that achieving that perfectly balanced recipe can often times come…
Summer Caesar Salad Recipe with Homemade Dressing
You know I can’t keep things normal, I’m always trying to twist up something new, and this Summer Caesar Salad Recipe with Homemade Dressing is my latest. While some of it had to do with wanting to eat a chicken caesar, the other had to do with just wanting to use up some things I had…
Grilled Chopped salad with Sweet Mustard Vinaigrette
One of the things I absolutely love about the spring and summer is the fresh produce that is available at the local grocery store. Fresh tomatoes, fresh corn, fresh asparagus, the possibilities literally seem endless. All of these vegetables are also great for grilling. Our family often roasts vegetables over the open fire simply with…
Shaved Vegetable and Spinach Salad
This Shaved Vegetable and Spinach Salad is a bit of an extension of the healthier version of Spinach Salad with Parmesan Vinaigrette except I used French bread in the vinaigrette. That’s right there is bread in the vinaigrette and dang was it good. It really helps to provide some body to the dressing and honestly it tasted a…
Thai Salad Recipe with Peanut Dressing
And the healthy eating continues. If there’s one thing I’ve learned through this process it’s to pay attention to what and how much you put into your body. Even during my deepest temptation to eat cookies, and cakes and pies, I pause for a moment and think about how much sugar is in that pie,…
Spinach Salad with Parmesan Vinaigrette
My first recipe from my 21 days of healthy eating is finished. I knew salads were going to be a big part of this diet so why not start with one. This Spinach Salad with Parmesan Vinaigrette recipe is somewhat of a twist on something I had at a restaurant down town. Healthy enough and tasty…
Raw Vegetable Salad Recipe with Blue Cheese
I got the inspiration to make this Raw Vegetable Salad Recipe with Blue Cheese from two things really. The first is that I had an all shaved veggie salad at this amazing restaurant called Au Cheval here in Chicago and the other reason I wanted to make it is because dang have I been eating bad…
