The 20 best easy summer salad recipes

From Nigella Lawson’s lemony prawns and Nigel Slater’s noodles with pickled ginger to classics such as potato and pasta salads, these dishes are pure summer

Show-stopping summery recipes you’ll return to again and again. Presenting Nigella Lawson’s lemony prawn salad, David Carter’s Cretan-inspired Greek salata or Yotam Ottolenghi’s beef tomato carpaccio with spring onion and ginger salsa. Brilliant warm-weather eating made in minutes. Witness Helen Graves’ gem salad with her secret weapon dressing or Nigel Slater’s perfect pancetta and cantaloupe. Simple dishes such as Tarunima Sinha’s summer potato salad or Rosie Reynolds’s tuna and white bean salad built from store-cupboard staples. Twenty essential, delicious meals that will never let you down.