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Main meal salads

Try these salads as a main course. We've got roasted vegetable salads, meaty salads and we've thrown in a couple of bean salads, too.

Salad recipes

Sumptuous salads

From side-dish to centrepiece, today's salad recipes are versatile, inventive and tasty. If you go easy on the dressing, you'll lose the fat but not the flavour.

Healthy salads

These healthy salad recipes are less than 400 calories per serving, low on salt and high on nutritional value. So, whenever that burger beckons, think bikini – think salads.

Rocket fuel

Celebrate rocket

Also known as 'rucola', this peppery-tasting veg could win a popularity contest.

Watercress

Celebrate watercress

It's back! From April-October this powerhouse of a vegetable should be piled high on our plates. Rejoice.

Lettuce

Low calorie, full of anti-oxidants and nutrients, lettuce is extremely good for you. With so many different types it's also very versatile. Try these refreshing recipes and make the most of your green leaves.

Dress it up

How to make salad dressings

Creating a good salad dressing is a complex business: which oil to use for which salad, and what kind of vinegar? Our guide will smooth things out.

Essential oils

Which oil?

With the range of oils now available, it can be hard to know which to use for what. Here’s our simple guide...

Mayo

Mayonnaise

There can be few fridges that don’t contain a jar of mayonnaise – but the creamy stuff can do far more than just perk up a salad.

Spring onions

Spring onion recipes

Slice or dice, add to stir fries, soups, salads or mix into mash. The spring onion has veritable bounty of uses.

Bonkers for beetroot

Beet Generation

This month, Tom Norrington-Davies takes the beet route. If anyone can persuade you that beetroot recipes are beautiful recipes, then he can.

Planting guide

A quick quide to when to plant vegetables and herbs, and when to harvest.

Tomatoes

Celebrate tomatoes

What sun-ripened beauty is a staple of light, sunny eating? It can only be the tomato. A key ingredient in many cuisines around the world, our tomato recipes show off this truly versatile fruit.

Cucumber

Celebrate cucumbers

They're as cool as fruits (yes, it's a fruit) get... and it's not hard to see why. Enjoy the refreshing taste of our light and lovely cucumber recipes.

Radishes