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You’ll love these 26 super tasty sides, salads, and snacks for summer! You can make them on the air fryer, grill, or stovetop, and some don’t require any cooking!
Grilled Tomatoes With Cheese
Full of flavor, these Grilled Tomatoes With Cheese will be your new favorite appetizer or side dish. Juicy tomatoes and feta cheese are grilled on the BBQ, roasted in the oven, or baked in the air fryer.
Loaded Baked Potato Salad (Instant Pot or Stovetop)
This loaded Instant Pot Potato Salad is the dish that everyone will love. This recipe has mayo-free options for a healthier potato salad and is the perfect make-ahead side dish for your next BBQ. No pressure cooker? You’ll also find stovetop instructions included in the post.
Burrata Caprese
This burrata caprese takes the classic and already delicious caprese salad to the next level! Extra creamy burrata with fresh and flavorful heirloom tomatoes, sweet shallots, fragrant basil, topped with flaky salt, fresh black pepper, olive oil and balsamic glaze.
Tortellini Pasta Salad
This Tortellini Pasta Salad is a simple and easy meal that you can throw together in 15 minutes or less. Perfect as a fast side, main dish, or quick lunch, this cold tortellini salad will become a family favorite.
Creamy Pesto Pasta
With only three ingredients and 10 minutes cook time, this creamy pesto pasta will soon become a weeknight staple in your house. Vibrant, garlicky pesto sauce mixed in with Greek yogurt makes this easy dinner recipe both simple and comforting.
Mango Pico de Gallo
Homemade Mango Pico de Gallo is a delightful and quick salsa you can use to top lots of recipes or enjoy it with crispy tortilla chips. You’ll love the bright flavors of this fresh fruit salsa.
Tomato Basil Salad
Tomato Basil Salad is the perfect summer side dish to serve at barbecues, cookouts, and picnics outdoors. This healthy recipe features juicy tomatoes and fresh basil, which provide tons of flavor.
Greek Yogurt Coleslaw
This simple Greek Yogurt Coleslaw recipe not only tastes delicious but it is easy to make too! This zesty coleslaw without mayo has creamy Greek yogurt and a touch of horseradish.
Tomato Tart
This tomato tart is summer on a plate. An easy open tart recipe made with puff pastry fresh tomatoes and basil pesto it’s simple but delicious.
Cucumber and Onion Salad
This make-ahead Cucumber and Onion Salad is a summertime superstar. Simple and delicious, the fresh ingredients let the garden-fresh produce shine in this easy cucumber salad.
Instant Pot Cowboy Beans
You’ll be the hit of your next BBQ or picnic with these Instant Pot Cowboy Beans. Slightly sweet, amazingly smoky, and ready in a flash. You’ll find both Instant Pot and slow cooker instructions in the recipe card.
Middle Eastern Tomato Parsley Salad
Middle Eastern tomato parsley salad is a simple and deliciously refreshing salad that you quickly prepare within 10 minutes and add more flavors, color, and nutrients to your meal. It’s vegan and gluten-free.
Shopska Salad With Feta
You’re just 15 minutes away from the best summer salad! This Bulgarian Shopska salad is loaded with colorful veggies, dressed in a simple vinaigrette and topped with shredded Feta cheese. A great appetizer, side salad, or a meal on its own next to a slice of bread.
Artichoke Salad
This delicious Artichoke Salad is a healthy and simple recipe that is the perfect make-ahead side dish. Canned artichokes, feta, tomatoes, and fresh herbs pair beautifully with a flavorful marinade.
Beetroot and Feta Salad
With just 15 minutes of active cooking and a few simple steps you can make this flavor packed beetroot and feta salad. Served a bit warm and loaded with beets, feta cheese, fennel and roasted pine nuts it’s a salad that works in all seasons – and for any salad skeptic.
Instant Pot Mac and Cheese
This is the creamiest Instant Pot Mac and Cheese you’ll ever make! Even better, it can be made in one pot – no muss, no fuss. Pressure cooker macaroni and cheese is so easy (no roux!), and is ready in under 20 minutes.
Tomato and Onion Salad
This fresh Tomato and Onion Salad with creamy balsamic vinaigrette is refreshing, delicious and incredibly easy to make. This summery salad is made with juicy tomatoes, tangy red onions, fresh basil and drizzled with a creamy basil balsamic dressing.
Greek Yogurt Deviled Eggs
These Greek Yogurt Deviled Eggs are a delicious and lighter take on a classic recipe. And thanks to the high protein in yogurt, these make the perfect no mayo deviled eggs.
Ranch Coleslaw
Make this simple ranch coleslaw in just 15 minutes, and be the star of your next barbecue. With store-bought mayonnaise & ranch dressing this dish couldn’t be easier to make – or more loaded with flavor!
Pesto Orzo
This Pesto Orzo is a simple and easy dinner that you can throw together in 15 minutes or less. You’ll want to make this delicious homemade comfort food part of your permanent meal plan.
Green Pea Salad
This tasty green Pea Salad couldn’t be any easier! It’s a simple make-ahead vegetable dish that‘s packed with flavor and uses frozen peas and Greek yogurt.
Cold Soba Noodle Salad
This 10-Minute Cold Soba Noodle Salad is the fast main or side dish you have been waiting for! Packed with flavor, it comes together in a flash using pantry staples. It’s even better the next day, so consider this a meal prep dream dish.
Pesto Chicken Quinoa Bowl
This Pesto Chicken Quinoa Bowl is a quick and easy weeknight meal. It’s ready in less than 30 minutes and is filled with all those delicious summer flavors.
Cheesy Garlic Bread
Transform a simple baguette into Cheesy Garlic Bread with the best homemade garlic butter spread. This easy garlic cream cheese bread recipe lets you make a delicious and affordable side from scratch.
Pesto Ricotta Crostini
This pesto ricotta crostini with roasted cherry tomatoes is a rustic and delicious appetizer, perfect for any summer occasion. If you’re having people over or want to snack on something delicious, you have to try this incredible appetizer!
Caprese Pasta Salad
This simple Caprese Pasta salad with Pistachio Pesto is a luxurious meal you can enjoy at home or at the park: it perfectly encapsulates classic Italian flavors, in an easy-to-make, easy-to-enjoy package.
