Seriously Good Salads: Creative Flavor Combinations for Nutritious, Satisfying Meals

Kitchen Sanctuary blogger Corbishley transforms salads into satisfying main dishes in this thorough and nutrition-conscious approach to salad making. Exploring key elements of salad composition, Corbishley creates mouthwatering combos that bring texture, tang, crunch, and creaminess to each amalgamation. Chapters are organized by meat and poultry, fish and seafood, cheese and egg, nutritious grains, nuts and seeds, potato-based salads, pasta, rice and bread, and fruit-based salads. Lamb and orange salad and Chinese duck salad with plums showcase sophisticated meals. Turkish egg salad with poached eggs, yogurt sauce, and bulgur wheat, meanwhile, makes for a nutritious breakfast, while the salmon sushi salad bowl is a deconstructed take on nigiri. Throughout, Corbishley offers tips on selecting greens as well as other vegetables, and over half of the 75 recipes include meat-free variations. Many salads are labor-intensive and require overnight marinating, chilling, and some degree of protein preparation (roasting lamb, deep frying falafel, slow cooking pork belly, etc.). Dressings with nearly a dozen ingredients add to these over-the-top salad medleys, so readers looking for quick options will find only a handful here. For cooks who take salads seriously, this ambitious collection will inspire. [em](July) [/em]