Food52 Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad into Dinner [A Cookbook]

by Food52, Amanda Hesser (Foreword by), Merrill Stubbs (Foreword by)

Overview

A collection of 60 recipes for turning ordinary salads into one-dish worthy meals.

Does anybody need a recipe to make a salad? Of course not. But if you want your salad to hold strong in your lunch bag or carry the day as a one-bowl dinner, dressing on lettuce isn’t going to cut it.

Make way for Mighty Salads, in which the editors of Food52 present sixty salads hefty with vegetables, meats, grains, beans, fish, seafood, pasta, and bread. Think shrimp and radicchio tossed in a bacon vinaigrette, a make-ahead jumble of white beans with charred lemon and fennel, slow-roasted duck and apples scattered across spicy greens. It’s comforting food made captivating by simply charring one ingredient or marinating another—shaving some, or roasting a bunch.

But because we don’t always follow recipes, there are also loose formulas for confident off-roading, as well as back-pocket tips and genius tricks for improving any old salad. Because once you know how to fix too-salty dressing, wash greens once and for all, keep an avocado from browning, and even sprout your own grains, the humble salad starts looking a lot more interesting—and a whole lot more like dinner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399578045
Publisher:	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date:	04/11/2017
Series:	Food52 Works
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	230,678
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

The home and kitchen destination Food52.com was founded in 2009 by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, two authors, editors, and opinionated home cooks who formerly worked for the New York Times. Since then, Food52 has created a suite of cookbooks, a cooking and home shop, a podcast, and a cooking hotline—and has won many a James Beard and IACP award doing it.

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Table of Contents

Contents 


LEAFY SALADS 
Grilled Peach & Apricot Salad with Kale and Prosciutto | 3 
Petits Pois à la Française Redux | 4 
Featherweight Slaw | 7 
Antipasto Chopped Salad | 8 
Hoppin’ John Salad with Crispy Cornbread | 13 
Cobb Salad with Hard-Boiled Egg Dressing | 14 
Caesar-Style Kale Salad with Roasted Onions | 17 
Radicchio & Cauliflower with Currant-Anchovy Vinaigrette | 18 
Roasted Grape, Butternut Squash & Kale Salad | 21 
Chard Salad with Garlic Breadcrumbs & Parmesan | 22 
Wilted Escarole with Feta & Honey | 26 

LESS-LEAFY VEGETABLE SALADS 
Shaved Asparagus with Burrata, Radish & Cucumber | 31 
Fried Eggplant, Tomato & Peach Salad with Preserved Lemon Vinaigrette | 32 
Corn-Barley Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette | 35 
Charred Okra Succotash Salad | 36 
Grilled Mushroom & Fig Salad | 39 
Roasted Potato Salad with Mustard-Walnut Vinaigrette | 40 
Roasted Broccoli Rabe, Chickpea & Crispy Salami Salad | 43 
Carrot & Radicchio Salad with Fig-Balsamic Vinaigrette | 44 
Charred Broccoli & Lentil Salad | 47 
Shaved Brussels Sprouts, Endive & Apple Salad | 48 

GRAIN & BEAN SALADS 
Toasted Farro & Asparagus Salad | 53 
Grilled Ratatouille & Bulgur Salad | 54 
Smoked Lentil Salad with Sriracha Miso Mayo | 56 
Coconut Rice Salad with Mango, Bell Pepper & Lime | 59 
Farro & Golden Beet Salad with Chive-Sage Dressing | 60 
Radish & Pecan Grain Salad | 63 
Sprouted Mung Bean, Carrot & Date Salad | 65 
Wild Rice Bowl with Tofu, Sweet Potatoes & Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette | 69 
Mushroom & Mixed Grains Salad with Carrot-Harissa Vinaigrette | 73 
Freekeh, Fennel & Smoked Fish Salad | 74 
Brown Butter Brussels Sprouts & Crispy Quinoa | 77 
Roasted Chickpea Salad with Za’atar | 78 
White Bean Salad with Fennel Three Ways | 81 

PASTA & BREAD SALADS 
Baby Artichoke, Fregola & Pistachio Aillade Salad | 85 
Spring Vegetable Panzanella | 86 
Bagna Cauda Egg Salad on Rye Toast | 89 
Lemony Greek Pasta Salad | 90 
Grilled Bread, Broccoli Rabe & Summer Squash Salad | 93 
Half-Blistered Tomato Pasta Salad | 94 
Sort of Tabbouleh with Jammy Onion Vinaigrette | 97 
Peanut Noodle Salad | 98 
Curried Cauliflower Fattoush | 101 

FISH & SEAFOOD SALADS 
Radicchio & Shrimp Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette | 105 
Grilled Lobster Salad with Lemon-Thyme Butter | 106 
Seared Scallop Salad with Black Lentils & Garlic-Sesame Crumbs | 109 
Fresh Corn Cakes with Crab-Tomato Salad | 110 
Halibut Escabeche Taco Salad | 113 
Herbed Tuna & Israeli Couscous Salad | 115 
Salmon & Beet Salad with Cherry Vinaigrette | 116 
Shrimp Ceviche with Caramelized Tangerine Vinaigrette | 119 

MEAT SALADS 
Chicken & Rice Salad with Poached Radishes and Nuoc Cham | 123 
Chorizo & Summer Melon Salad | 124 
Steak & Tossed Salsa Verde Salad | 127 
Bloody Mary Steak Salad | 128 
Spicy Chicken Salad with Rice Noodles | 131 
Grilled Lamb Kebabs with Tomato-Cucumber Salad | 132 
Curried Chicken, Grape & Cheddar Salad | 135 
Slow-Roasted Duck & Apple Salad | 136 
Thai Pork Salad with Crisped Rice | 139

Editorial Reviews

Remember when ‘salad’ meant a sad iceberg wedge, Russian dressing, and a mealy tomato? Goodbye, says Food52, and we’re better off for it. Whether you’re looking for a one-plate mighty meal or a jumping-off point for some vegetable-centric culinary experimentation, you’ll find it here.”

—JESSICA KOSLOW, owner of Sqirl and author of Everything I Want to Eat

"Food52's newest venture finds the perfect solution to a common dilemma - turning something light and easy like salad, into a meal that can hold you over for more than an hour."

—Domino.com

"With recipes like roasted duck over spicy greens and featherweight slaw with chicken, the wise chefs of Food52 have seriously upped our greenery game."

—PureWow

From the Publisher

03/15/2017
The lackluster side salad gets a meal-worthy makeover in this new collection from the editors of Food52.com. Like Mindy Fox's Salads: Beyond the Bowl and Jane Baxter and John Vincent's LEON Happy Salads, this book contains multiple categories of salad (e.g., grain and bean, fish and seafood, meat) to suit all tastes and occasions. Sixty recipes—including roasted potato salad with mustard-walnut vinaigrette, lemony Greek pasta salad, and grilled lobster salad with lemon-thyme butter—emphasize variety, drawing on flavorful components such as fresh herbs and toasted nuts for vibrancy and zest. Half are new; the rest are "greatest hits" from the Food52 community. VERDICT Use this cookbook to revive sad salads and workplace lunches. If salads are your preferred meal, consider adding it to your personal collection.

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