Delicious Salad Recipes

Salad leaves aren’t just a healthy, convenient way towards your five-a-day, they are also tasty and highly versatile, allowing you to create a variety of mouth-watering meals from dinner party dishes to sofa suppers, party platters and BBQ buffets. So, grab a bag and check out our delicious salad recipes. You can also request a FREE copy of our booklet ‘Salads are not just for Summer’, which is packed full of recipe tips and handy hints.

UK Salad Season

The UK salad season traditionally runs from late May through until October (depending upon the weather), during which time over 90% of fresh prepared bagged salad leaves will be harvested from salad growing regions across the UK. There are around 14,000 acres of salad farms, stretching across the vale of Evesham, the South Coast, East Anglia, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, the West Midlands and Hampshire. Nearly 6,000 acres are dedicated to salad bags, producing around 40,000 tonnes of leaves every year. Over 50 different types of salad leaves are grown in this country, from curly red oak and frilly lollo rosso to crunchy iceburg lettuce and baby spinach.

Eat a Rainbow

With nutritionists urging us to “eat a rainbow” – one fruit and vegetable from each of the colour bands - to ensure we get the best range of different vitamins and phytochemicals available to us, what better dish than a salad? Just one cereal bowl (80g) of salad leaves counts as one of our five portions.

Picture of Health

British salad bag producers took up the challenge to get kids to eat their greens and held a National Salad Bag Art competition, which invited youngsters to create a work of art from salad leaves and other salad vegetables. The idea was developed after research showed that one in two parents play games at meal times to encourage their children to eat more healthily. To view the winning entries click here.