8 Main Dish Salad Recipes

I’ve rounded-up some of my favorite main dish salad recipes! They’re hearty, filling, and stand alone as the star of your dinner table. Steak salad, a few different kinds of chicken salad, and my favorite tacos salads are a few you’ll find in this post. I hope you find a few new recipes to try.

Classic Ground Beef Taco Salad

Ground beef taco salad tossed in a homemade Catalina dressing with a chili twist. Loaded with veggies, beans, and cheese this taco salad is a 30-minute weeknight dinner that’s full of fresh flavors.

Grilled Chicken Cobb Salad

This cobb salad is loaded with grilled chicken, crispy bacon, hard-boiled eggs, creamy avocado, and fresh greens all tied together with a tangy red wine vinaigrette.

Santa Fe Salad with Chicken

Santa Fe salad is easy to make in about 15 minutes! It has shredded chicken, crisp lettuce, black beans, corn, creamy avocado, cheese, and super simple Southwestern-style ranch dressing. It’s zesty and bursting with freshness – the perfect main dish salad when you’re craving something light.

Steak Caesar Salad

This steak Caesar salad is a delicious main dish salad with tender steak, creamy Caesar salad dressing, and homemade ciabatta croutons.

salad with steak and croutons in a bowl.

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Buffalo chicken salad with crispy chicken coated in spicy buffalo sauce tossed with crisp lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, and celery. Add a creamy blue cheese dressing, and you get a filling salad!

Steak Taco Salad

This fast and fresh steak taco salad for two has tender pan-seared sirloin, creamy diced avocado, black beans, pepper jack cheese and a super simple 3-ingredient salsa verde dressing.

Pesto Chicken Pasta Salad

This pesto pasta salad is loaded with fresh asparagus, spinach, and peas. Add some chicken, pesto, and ziti, and you get a summer-fresh pasta salad that is ready in 30 minutes.

Chicken BLT Salad

This BLT salad is like the classic sandwich, but salad-style with some chicken to make it a filling dinner. It’s all here – crispy bacon, juicy cherry tomatoes, a creamy yogurt-mayo dressing, plus easy homemade croutons.