Summer salads: Three easy dinner recipes

Here are three hearty salads to enjoy as the weather heats up. 

There's minimal cooking involved, with many relying on ready-to-eat supermarket staples such as barbecue chicken and vacuum-packed beetroot. 

They're from Heidi Sze and Julia Busuttil Nishimura and designed for the busy end-of-year period.

Quick beetroot salad with roasted almonds and red grapes

There's minimal cooking in this recipe, which uses a few packets of cooked beetroot. Prepping this meal is simple: roast some almonds, slice the beetroot and grapes, then shake up a dressing in a jar. It's a sweet and refreshing salad you could easily bulk up by adding tinned lentils, feta cheese or roasted veggies.

BBQ chicken and mango salad with garlic butter wraps 

Grab a rotisserie chicken and some mangoes on your way home and enjoy this crunchy and substantial salad for dinner. It's served alongside a stack of garlic butter wraps, which are simple to make and tasty to eat. 

Chopped steak salad with avocado and corn

One steak goes a long way when it's served sliced alongside grilled corn, cos lettuce, avocado and cherry tomatoes. A garlic and lime dressing brings the salad together. Just be sure to rest your steak before you slice it.