Summer salads use abundant seasonal produce, featuring fruit-focused options like watermelon salads and tomato-plum salads. These salads allow for creative variations with ingredients like goat cheese, arugula pesto, and different vinegars. The soft textures of the salad ingredients and their sweet flavors create refreshing dishes, perfect for summer. Variations also incorporate herbs, cucumbers, or even non-dairy options like tofu. Pairing recommendations for salads include lighter wines such as chenin blanc or riesling.
Sliced uniformly and tossed in a light vinaigrette, the soft textures and sweet flavors make for a refreshing salad that's the epitome of summer snacking.
Tasting Table's plum and tomato salad recipe, for instance, pairs the two with goat cheese and arugula pesto while opting for a combination of raspberry vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil for the dressing.
Other variations play with more summer produce, tossing in sliced cucumbers or swapping the usual heirloom tomatoes for cherry tomatoes and thinly sliced red onion.
Given the use of stone fruit in this salad, you'd be right to pour something along the lines of a chenin blanc or riesling with this salad.
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