There's a chill in the air and harvest season is here! Celebrate autumn with these 35 best fall salad recipes. These recipes truly showcase the best of the season: the produce, the colors, and the flavors are all fall-themed.
Whether you're looking for a show-stopping salad for your Thanksgiving table or a simple dinner idea, this list has something for everyone. So get cozy and keep reading to discover the top easy, healthy salads of the season.
The Best Salad Recipes to Make This Fall
Apple Brie Salad
This apple brie salad is full of perfect fall pairings: sweet apples match with creamy brie cheese and chewy cranberries compliment crunchy pecans. It's an autumn-inspired salad that will have you craving every fresh, flavorful bite!
Fall Harvest Salad
This fall harvest salad is a chopped salad that's loaded with the all best flavors of fall. It's layered with kale, cranberries, apple, roasted sweet potato, pecans & more. The dressing is a simple, 5-ingredient Creamy Tahini Dressing that will have you craving this salad all season long!
Fall Quinoa Salad
This fall quinoa salad is inspired by all the flavors of the season! The star of this salad is the fruit: crispy apple, juicy orange, and tart cranberries give each bite bright, fresh, delicious flavor.
Pear Salad with Balsamic Dressing
This easy, 5-ingredient pear salad is a beautiful, fresh, delicious fall side dish. It's made with walnuts, cranberries, and blue cheese and topped with a creamy, classic balsamic vinaigrette.
Autumn Apple and Pear Salad
Enjoy the fruit of the season! Sweet pears and apples paired with salty feta and bacon are the perfect combination in this autumn apple and pear salad.
Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad
This shaved brussels sprout salad is full of fall-inspired ingredients like apples, pecans and cranberries tossed in a simple lemon vinaigrette. It's an easy, show-stopping side salad that's perfect for your dinner table or holiday menu.
Almond Apple Quinoa Salad
Almond Apple Quinoa Salad is a fresh, healthy side dish. It’s fast enough for a weeknight and perfect as a make-ahead dish for a holiday meal. You will love how the sweet and salty flavors combine in this salad!
Pear Salad with Poppy Seed Dressing
This delicious Pear Salad is the ultimate winter green salad recipe with pears, apples, dried cranberries, and more, topped with a wonderful homemade poppy seed dressing. Perfect as an easy side dish or even a light lunch.
Arugula Beet Salad
This easy Arugula Beet Salad recipe is made with toasted walnuts, feta cheese, and coated in a simple citrus vinaigrette dressing. It’s healthy, delicious, and beautiful. Impressive enough for guests and easy enough for a light lunch or side dish.
Really Good Thanksgiving Salad Recipe
If you believe that every Thanksgiving menu needs a bright and fresh salad, this Really Good Thanksgiving Salad recipe is for you! Greens, Parmesan cheese and the best harvest produce, tossed with a simple maple vinaigrette.
Autumn Kale Harvest Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette
This Autumn Kale Harvest Salad brings together the best of fall’s produce into a beautiful salad. It’s made with thinly sliced kale, pomegranate seeds, Honeycrisp apple slices, candied almond slices, and tossed in a lusciously sweet and tangy Apple Cider Vinaigrette. It’s healthy, simple and beautiful.
Persimmon Salad
This delicious persimmon salad with pear and kale is a real treat! Persimmons are a fantastic fruit that's only in season a few months of the year. They have a honey-like flavor and are usually mild. They're often juicy and their texture is somewhere in between a peach and an apple.
Roasted Delicata Squash Salad with Maple-Pear Balsamic Vinaigrette
This salad is the ultimate way to enjoy delicata squash this season! It's made with festive pomegranate, leafy kale, and a heavenly maple balsamic vinaigrette.
Butternut Squash Salad with Cranberries and Feta
Rich autumn flavours and rustic warm colours make this roasted Butternut Squash Salad a favourite choice for a fall salad! Caramelized bites of squash, sweet cranberries, feta cheese crumbles and crunchy pecans top a bed of baby spinach or tenderized kale.
Fall Cobb Salad
This Fall Cobb Salad is an autumn-themed version of a classic cobb that's tossed in a simple, 4-ingredient Honey Mustard Dressing. This salad is fall in a bowl and it's a tasty, festive way to celebrate the season!
Brussel Sprouts Salad Recipe (Video)
This Shaved Brussel Sprout Salad Recipe is made with brussels sprouts, crunchy pecans, sweet and tart apples, crisp beets and creamy cheddar cheese tossed in a delicious balsamic dressing to make the BEST brussel sprout salad ever.
Autumn Crunch Apple Salad
A seasonal autumn apple salad filled with sweet apples, spicy greens, and maple hazelnuts, topped with a maple cinnamon vinaigrette. YUM!
Thanksgiving Fruit Salad (Fall Fruit Salad)
Thanksgiving Fruit Salad is a vibrant, healthy addition to your holiday table. Colorful chopped fruit is tossed with a simple honey dressing for a delicious, easy side dish.
Pumpkin Salad
This vegan pumpkin salad is packed with seasonal veg like beets and radishes, then topped with a gorgeous creamy tahini dressing - autumn in a bowl!
Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad
This delicious salad with roasted butternut squash and quinoa is a great healthy fall recipe that is packed with nutritious ingredients and full of flavors. It’s super easy to make and will be a perfect addition to any dinner, lunch, or even meal prep!
Pear Salad with Creamy Walnut Vinaigrette
This is a fresh pear salad with a creamy walnut vinaigrette. It's festive, crunchy, and fruity -- beautiful enough for a holiday table and simple enough for a light dinner or lunch.
Simple Harvest Salad with a Creamy Walnut Vinaigrette
This Simple Harvest Salad with a Creamy Walnut Vinaigrette is both vegan and gluten-free. It’s the perfect, easy recipe for a crowd, the holidays or meal prep!
Sweet Potato & Steak Salad with Carolina Mustard Vinaigrette
A decadently beautiful salad made with figs and steak drizzled in a Carolina mustard vinaigrette. Satisfying and mouth-watering!
Kale Salad Recipe
This kale salad recipe is loaded with colorful vegetables, sweet cranberries, crunchy pecans, creamy cheddar cheese and the best homemade dressing ever! It’s a hearty salad that holds up well and will even impress kale skeptics.
The Best Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad
This recipe for Shaved Brussels Sprouts Salad has kale, apple and a bold lemon vinaigrette with garlic and Parmesan cheese is my newest obsession! So if you never thought you could eat raw Brussels sprouts, think again! They are surprisingly delicious when finely sliced or shaved thin and made into a healthy and festive slaw. Serve it for a 20-minute side dish for the holidays or any fall or winter meal.
Kale and Fall Fruit Salad with Cider Poppy Seed Dressing
Kale and Fall Fruit Salad with Cider Poppy Seed Dressing -- this is the queen of fall salads, with pear, cranberries, figs, pomegranate, and grapes, all tossed in a creamy cider vinaigrette. It’s healthy, hearty, and festive enough for the holidays.
Asian Pear Arugula Salad with Blue Cheese
This delicious Asian pear salad is made with blue cheese, arugula, frisée, and grapes. It's such a delicious and beautiful salad recipe. It's a great side salad or could be enjoyed as a light lunch as well!
Harvest Wild Rice Salad with Butternut Squash
This Harvest Wild Rice Salad recipe is vegan and healthy. It's made with roasted butternut squash and cranberries in a maple dijon dressing.
Cranberry Quinoa Salad with Pomegranate & Kale
This Cranberry Quinoa Salad with pomegranate, feta, kale and butternut squash is a gorgeous, vibrant and healthy side dish to serve at any occasion, but is especially appropriate for Fall & Winter! Make it in advance to allow all of the flavors to intensify!
Autumn Apple Spinach Salad with Bacon and Candied Pecans
This Fall, treat yourself to this healthy and delicious Autumn Apple Spinach Salad with Bacon and Candied Pecans! Leafy greens are topped with ingredients like sweet apples, crunchy pecans, crumbled bacon and tasty cheese. And of course, you can’t forget about the homemade hot bacon dressing!
Brussels Sprout Apple Goat Cheese Salad
Today’s Brussels Sprouts Apple Goat Cheese Salad is one that will be on my Thanksgiving table this year. It is full of a variety of textures and flavors which makes this an interesting salad to put on your table.
Broccoli Salad without Mayo — Wholesome Kitchen
This recipe for broccoli salad without mayo is the same as classic broccoli salad except it swaps mayonnaise for Greek yogurt. It uses all of the traditional mix-ins like bacon, red onions, cranberries, and sunflower seeds.
Spinach Apple Salad with Bacon, Walnuts and Blue Cheese
This apple salad made with spinach, bacon, walnuts and blue cheese is as delicious as it is beautiful to look at. Absolutely perfect for your holiday table!
Classic Waldorf Salad
This classic Waldorf salad is loaded with apples, walnuts, grapes and celery tossed in a creamy and sweet mayonnaise-based dressing. It's an easy, fresh side dish that's ready in about 10 minutes.
Easy Chicken Salad
This classic, easy chicken salad recipe is delicious as a stand-alone dish or on sandwiches, wraps, or lettuce. It's a quick, 10 minute recipe that's done in only 2 steps.
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