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Summer’s heat practically begs for meals in which easy, flavor-filled salads play a starring role. These five creative recipes allow you to switch ingredients according to your tastes and preferences, and with abundant summer produce at stores and farmers markets, there’s no better time to try some new items. Plus, produce-forward dishes are a great way to boost your nutrient density, hit your fiber goals and add some variety to your routine.
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Sliced Orange Salad With Fennel and Shallots
Cookbook author Jenny Rosenstrach lives by the motto: “You don’t have to be a vegetarian to eat like one.” She encourages home cooks to eat mostly plant-based foods during the week, and her latest cookbook, The Weekday Vegetarians Get Simple: Strategies and So-Good Recipes to Suit Every Craving and Mood, makes it easy to fall in love with meat-free dishes that are flavorful and exciting. Her version of a Sicilian classic, Sliced Orange Salad With Fennel and Shallots, gives you plenty of textures and key nutrients, with a vitamin C punch from the sliced oranges and tons of fiber, thanks to the fennel.
Get the recipe: Sliced Orange Salad With Fennel and Shallots
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French Potato Salad Bowl
There was a time when Kiki Nelson’s health was in peril: She was prediabetic and had high blood pressure. Motivated to make a change, she lost 70 pounds and has kept it off with a higher-carb, lower-fat plant-based diet. She shares her favorite recipes in her cookbook Plantifully Simple: 100 Plant-Based Recipes and Meal Plans for Health and Weight-Loss. Nelson’s dishes highlight seasonal fruits and vegetables, and she doesn’t shy away from bold or nostalgic flavors. Case in point: Her French Potato Salad Bowl offers the fiber and texture she loved from traditional potato salad, but instead of adding mayonnaise, she amps it up with coarse-ground mustard, maple syrup, garlic and fresh dill.
Get the recipe: French Potato Salad Bowl
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