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.

Bowl with butterbean salad with cherry tomatoes, cucumber and red onion

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.

Salad of corn, lettuce, tomatoes, onions and feta on a blue plate next to a bowl of 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.

A grilled halloumi salad with nectarines in a large sharing bowl

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.

Aguachile Recipe with Prawns

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.

Healthy bean salad with green tahini dressing

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.

Coronation Chicken Recipe with Tofu

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.

Cauliflower Couscous Salad Recipe with Zhoug

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.

Orzo, bean and tuna salad with black olives on a plate

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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Grilled Peach Salad With Pecans and Farro

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.

Roasted Courgette Salad with Chickpeas on a White Plate

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