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Summer salads: Three easy dinner recipes

Chicken and mango salad served in a big bowl alongside wraps brushed in garlic butter, a light and fresh salad dinner.
Make a simple salad go even further by serving garlic wraps as a side.()

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

Beetroot salad with lentils
This recipe uses vacuum-packed beetroot to create a nourishing, quick-to-assemble salad.()

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 

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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

A plate of chopped steak salad featuring charred corn, cherry tomatoes, avocado, lettuce and lime, a delicious dinner for two.
This hearty salad will serve two if you're hungry, or feed four as a lighter meal.()

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.

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