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15 Warm Salads to Make When It's Too Cold for Salad

Swap your cold greens for one of these warm, hearty salads you'll want to eat on even the coldest days.
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Peden + Munk

Just because it's winter doesn't mean we're not still craving salads—we're just not all that interested in eating them cold. So we turn to warm roasted veggies, cooked grains, pan-grilled meats, and an egg or two to create salads (like the 15 ahead) we'd stop hibernating for.

  • Overhead view of an arugula salad with roasted root vegetables topped with a poached egg.
    Danny Kim
    5/15

    Bistro Salad with Roasted Vegetables

    This salad was inspired by the classic French bistro salad, in which sturdy winter greens are laced with crisp lardons of bacon and a silky poached egg. We’ll never begrudge you a bit of bacon, but here vegetables are roasted to give the salad a leaner form of texture, flavor, and color.

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    Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott
    6/15

    Charred Romanesco with Anchovies and Mint

    Getting a good, dark sear on the Romanesco cauliflower is critical to this dish's addictive, nutty flavor.

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As the senior food editor at Bon Appétit, Christina spends her days in the BA Test Kitchen dreaming up recipes for home cooks (Chocolate-Matcha Butter Mochi Cake and Green Curry Lentil Soup are favorites). She also oversees the brand’s digital recipe content, working with freelancers and test kitchen staff to ... Read More
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