20 Easy Christmas Salads That Look as Good as They Taste

Christmas salads have one job: stop the table becoming fifty shades of beige.

These 20 easy Christmas salads bring colour, crunch, creamy bits, sweet bits, and enough personality to make people willingly put salad on their plate in December.

Christmas dinner is already doing a lot.

There’s roast potatoes, stuffing, gravy, pigs in blankets, probably three kinds of cheese somewhere nearby,  so a salad has to earn its spot.

This is not the time for limp lettuce and a few apologetic cucumber slices.

A good Christmas salad should bring something the rest of the table doesn’t: sharp citrus, crisp leaves, roasted veg, salty cheese, sweet fruit, toasted nuts, or a dressing that makes everyone ask what’s in it.

These 20 easy Christmas salads are full of that kind of thing.

Some are fresh and bright, some are creamy and indulgent, and some look so good they could probably get away with sitting next to the centrepiece.

Basically, salads with enough confidence to survive Christmas dinner.