Salad (did you just go, “ugh”?) doesn’t have to mean squeaky spinach leaves with a scant sprinkle of feta. Or a monstrous gloppy restaurant tray with more dressing and fried crunchies than anything else. Mighty Salads are chewy grains and silky beans and sprouts and rips of prosciutto, any seed and toasty nuts and eggs and pretzels and bright herbs. And yes, also leaves.

Mighty Salads is 60 recipes from the Food52 community, from the leafy to the vegetable-laden, the bean-y to the mostly meaty. You’ll find the salads that will become your packable lunch, a go-to to impress dinner guests, or the best way to clean out your fridge.

By the editors of Food 52, photography by James Ransom