25 Healthy Fall Dinner Salads for Quick Autumn Meals
Healthy fall salads for dinner! These easy autumn dinner salads are full of your favorite seasonal flavors, and make quick meals on busy fall weeknights.
As the leaves start to change, we begin craving those amazing seasonal flavors.
But just because it’s autumn doesn’t mean to abandon our healthy eating habits!
Fresh, healthy dinner salads are filling and full of nutritious ingredients, but won’t weigh you down.
I put together a list of the best fall dinner salad recipes, so you have tons of healthy meals to add to your seasonal menu.
These autumn salads are heartier than side salads, to keep you satisfied, but also quick and easy to make.
Keep your nutrition on point, while still enjoying all your favorite fall flavors.
With seasonal ingredients like apples and pears, to autumn squash, pumpkin, and maple …
… plus protein-rich add-ins like quinoa, farro, chicken, and steak, there are so many amazing recipes to try.
Let’s check ‘em out!
Easy Fall Dinner Salads
Fall Cobb Salad
Fall Cobb Salad is packed with the fun flavors and textures of the season.
Sweet potatoes, apples, prosciutto, and pomegranate, then finished off with a rosemary and apple cider vinegar salad dressing - it’s so good!
Fall Panzanella Salad
Turn a classic bread salad into a Fall Panzanella Salad with butternut squash and baby kale and maple vinaigrette.
Bread, butternut squash, dried cranberries, baby kale and a maple dijon vinaigrette make an amazing combination.
Chicken Harvest Salad with Apples
Chicken Harvest Salad features fresh greens, tender chicken, pears, apples, almonds, cranberries, and feta with a creamy Mayonnaise Balsamic Dressing. Such a nourishing fall dinner!
Pear Arugula Salad with Prosciutto
Pear Arugula Salad is perfect for fall dinner parties or any day of the week.
Peppery arugula is combined with sweet pears, pomegranate arils, tangy blue cheese, red onions, toasted walnuts, and salty, crispy prosciutto.
Top it all off with a little creamy balsamic dressing for a super satisfying bite.
Grilled Chicken Arugula Salad with Pears and Walnuts
Grilled Chicken Arugula Salad with Pears and Walnuts features fresh arugula, toasted walnuts, and a quick homemade lemon vinaigrette.
It’s easy to throw together as a side salad or main dish on busy weeknights, but elegant enough for entertaining.
Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad
Roasted Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad is filled with roasted sweet potatoes, quinoa, leaf greens, sliced red onions, and toasted pecans.
Filled with so many amazing flavors and textures, everything then gets covered with a deliciously simple maple vinaigrette.
Apple Pecan and Bacon Salad
Light, nutritious and simple to prepare, Apple Pecan and Bacon Salad has a simple and oh-so delicious apple cider vinaigrette.
It is a beautiful side dish for fall dinners, the holidays, or any time of year.
Mediterranean Lentil Salad
Mediterranean Lentil Salad is full of bright flavors and fresh veggies, with incredible layers of flavor.
Protein and fiber rich, the crisp veggies add bright colors and texture, and the sun dried tomato dressing adds a nice boldness.
Roasted Sweet Potato and Goat Cheese Salad
Roasted Sweet Potato and Goat Cheese Salad is the best combo of sweet and savory.
With tender oven roasted sweet potatoes, creamy goat cheese, toasted walnuts, dried cranberries and is drizzled with a thick balsamic reduction, it’s packed with flavor and easy to make.
Crab Louie Salad
The king of all salad recipes, Crab Louie Salad is packed with crisp lettuce, asparagus, cucumber, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, tomatoes, and crab meat and dressed in a flavorful homemade Thousand Island dressing.
Fall Farro Salad with Butternut Squash
Dive into the cozy fall season with this texture-rich Fall Farro Salad.
The chewy farro with caramelized butternut squash marries perfectly with crumbly feta, sweet cranberries, and crunchy nuts.
Hearty Roasted Vegetable Salad
Hearty Roasted Vegetable Salad is the perfect fall salad full of a range of seasonal roasted veggies and an incredible homemade dressing.
It pairs perfectly with almost any fall dinner or your Thanksgiving turkey.
Apple Pecan Chicken Salad
Fruit and nuts combine to make this Apple Pecan Chicken Salad a delicious and satisfying main dish salad.
Drizzle with a homemade Honey Mustard Dressing and you’ll pack a punch of flavor in every forkful.
Harvest Grain Bowl
This Harvest Grain Bowl is the perfect protein-packed bowl of goodness to keep you powered through the day.
It's loaded with quinoa, chicken, sweet potatoes, beans, greens, feta, and pickled onions and then topped off with an easy cilantro-lime vinaigrette.
Roasted Acorn Squash Salad
Deliciously satisfying Roasted Acorn Squash Salad features perfectly roasted acorn squash, wheat berries, feta cheese and spring greens.
It's hearty, especially for a salad, and is packed with nutrition and so much flavor.
Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Vinaigrette
You’ll love this hearty Spinach Salad with all its autumn flavors.
It’s packed full of goodness with Honeycrisp apples, pecans, dried cranberries, blue cheese and an oh-so tasty warm bacon vinaigrette dressing.
Savoury Steak and Squash Salad
If you’re looking for something different to make for fall or Thanksgiving, this Steak and Squash salad is amazing.
It has a wonderful apple maple dressing as a nod to the fall season, while squash and cranberries also play their part.
Fall Harvest Salad with Apple Vinaigrette
Fall Harvest Salad has kale, apples, roasted sweet potatoes and figs plus a delicious fall salad dressing that makes it tasty, cozy, and super satisfying.
It’s easy to make and impressive to serve for your holiday buffet or weeknight dinner table.
Lentil Salad with Roasted Vegetables
This Lentil Salad has tender oven-roasted vegetables in a delicious marinade with lentils, pistachios and raisins make for one crave-worthy fall or winter salad!
Strikingly beautiful and so delicious, it’s surprisingly easy to make and meal prep-friendly.
Warm Butternut Squash Brussel Sprout Salad
Warm Butternut Squash Brussel Sprout Salad is chock full of fall flavors thanks to the butternut squash and brussels sprouts.
The maple miso dressing is also to die for, it is the perfect salty sweet combination. Since this is a no lettuce salad it can also be stored with dressing and not get soggy.
Fall Harvest Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette
The lovely combination of slightly bitter brussels sprouts and spring mix greens, sweet and tart fruit, and feta cheese takes this Fall Harvest over the top.
Top it off with the flavorful dressing, and it’s sure to be a win.
Wheat Berry Salad with Apples and Cranberries
If you haven’t tried wheat berries, you’re in for a treat. This Wheat Berry Salad with Apples and Cranberries is toothsome, flavorful, and healthy.
Sweet Potato Couscous Salad
This sweet potato couscous salad is a hearty lunch or light dinner, and feels especially perfect for the fall months.
Very simple to make, it combines roasted sweet potato with creamy mozzarella and toasted pumpkin seeds.
Moroccan Roasted Vegetable Salad
Spicy, sweet, savory, and nutty, this Moroccan Roasted Vegetable Salad is surprisingly approachably exotic.
Roasted veggies top a bed of steamed lentils and are then sprinkled with pistachios, golden raisins, and crumbled goat cheese before being drizzled with tart and spicy harissa salad dressing.
Roasted Sweet Potato and Black Bean Quinoa Salad
Tender roasted sweet potatoes, hearty quinoa and black beans go perfectly with creamy avocado and crunchy cashews, then topped with an amazing lemon tahini dressing.
Ready to try some healthy fall dinner salads?
I hope this list of hearty dinner salad recipes for fall has given you tons of ideas for new healthy dinners to try.
Make dinnertime a breeze, while still sticking with your nutrition goals and fueling your body in a tasty way!
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