10 plant-packed salads
- Isabella Keeling - Deputy health editor
Published: July 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Looking for recipes to help you reach your 30 plant foods a week target? Try these light, colourful and fresh salads
Do you follow the 30 plants a week diet? If so, you need to try our fresh, crunchy and colourful recipes below which are all full of plant points. Add a few of these nourishing salads to your weekly meal plan and you'll be sure to reach your target. Check out our handy list of plant foods to remind yourself what counts towards your quota.
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Next, check out our easy summer salad recipes, vegetarian salads, healthy lunch ideas and healthy summer recipes. Plus, read up on how to improve your gut health, why protein is good for your health and discover nourishing recipes that pack in the plant points.
Summer butter bean salad
The flavours in this hearty, vibrant salad only get better over time. It brings together crunchy celery, cucumber, red onion, tomatoes and butter beans, which are a great source of protein and fibre.
Grilled corn salad with tahini miso dressing
What's great about this salad is that almost every element counts towards your plant points, from the veggies – sweetcorn, lettuce, cherry tomatoes and onion – to the tahini and miso dressing.
Nectarine and chilli maple halloumi quinoa salad
Nectarines shine in this salad made with quinoa, red onion, lemon, rocket, hazelnuts, olive oil and fresh herbs. All of which count towards your plant foods quota.
Prawn aguachile salad
Aguachile’ means ‘chilli water’ in Spanish, referring to the fiery dressing made by blitzing together coriander, green chillies and lime. Radishes, cucumber and lettuce add fresh crunch and all can be included in your plant points total.
Healthy bean salad
This colourful, fibre-rich salad combines green beans, kidney beans and cannellini beans with red pepper and onion, finished with a herby tahini dressing. It's impressively high in plant points.
Coronation tofu salad
As tofu is made from soy, it counts towards your daily plant foods. This vegan take on coronation salad includes it twice: blitzed into the spicy, creamy dressing and fried into golden chunks.
Cauliflower couscous salad
Topping this turmeric-spiced cauliflower and couscous salad with a punchy zhoug dressing adds both flavour and plant points. You'll also get a few more thanks to the dates and raisins.
Orzo, bean and tuna salad
Instead of your regular bowl of tuna pasta, serve up this vibrant, plant-packed orzo salad with green beans, peppers, olives and fresh dill.
Farro, grilled peach and pecan salad
Grilled peaches deliver a satisfying sweetness, balanced by lime-pickled shallots and toasted pecans in this vibrant vegan salad. Farro is a wholegrain wheat so counts as a plant food. You could use pearl barley as well.
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Roasted courgette, chickpea and lemon salad
The base of this salad is bulgur wheat and chickpeas, both of which are plant foods and pack in the fibre. Toss with roasted courgettes, a spicy harissa dressing and fresh parsley for a nutritious lunch.
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