
Lettuce Riot
High-Protein Salads That Pack a Punch
Becky Selengut(Author)
Sasquatch Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-63217-664-6 (ISBN)
Description
Your new go-to guide to shaking up your salads for maximum flavor impact
Move over, basic iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing; the world is tired of your sad, restrictive, and out-of-season leaves and ready for vibrant texture, diverse ingredients, and riotous color and texture. This cookbook focuses on the pure joy of protein-rich dinner salads in all their forms-asking, "What even is a salad?" (The answer, of course, is you can't pin salad down! You must surrender to its ineffability.)
With 50 recipes de-emphasizing a greens-based salad (think dense bean salads and taco salads!), plenty of wry humor and wordplay, protein counts of each recipe backed by a nutritionist, 35 full-color photos, and humorous margin doodles, author Becky Selengut (Misunderstood Vegetables) brings lightness and fun to a once-derided mainstay of the dinner table. Chapters include:
Groundwork (classics with a twist)
Salt and vinegar potato salad with dill pickles and potato chips
Cobb Salad with Katsu Tofu
Mobilize (transport-friendly salads that get better with time)
Chickpea chopped salad with chorizo, olives, almonds, fennel, piquillos and sherry vinegar dressing
Grilled Chicken and Charred Corn with Lime, Chili, Cilantro, and Cotija
Revolution (outside-the-box, or bag, salads)
Buffalo Cauliflower, Chickpea, and Tempeh Salad with Red Cabbage and Blue Cheese Dressing
Jewish Deli Salad with Pickled Beets, Lox, Dill, Capers, Bagel Croutons, and Everything Spice
Get Dressed (mix-and-match dressings)
Roasted shallot vinaigrette with balsamic
Greenest Goddess dressing
Top That! (easy, crunchy, chewy, texturally contrasting toppers)
Crispy Spiced Chickpeas
Shiitake Mushroom "Bacon"
Move over, basic iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing; the world is tired of your sad, restrictive, and out-of-season leaves and ready for vibrant texture, diverse ingredients, and riotous color and texture. This cookbook focuses on the pure joy of protein-rich dinner salads in all their forms-asking, "What even is a salad?" (The answer, of course, is you can't pin salad down! You must surrender to its ineffability.)
With 50 recipes de-emphasizing a greens-based salad (think dense bean salads and taco salads!), plenty of wry humor and wordplay, protein counts of each recipe backed by a nutritionist, 35 full-color photos, and humorous margin doodles, author Becky Selengut (Misunderstood Vegetables) brings lightness and fun to a once-derided mainstay of the dinner table. Chapters include:
Groundwork (classics with a twist)
Salt and vinegar potato salad with dill pickles and potato chips
Cobb Salad with Katsu Tofu
Mobilize (transport-friendly salads that get better with time)
Chickpea chopped salad with chorizo, olives, almonds, fennel, piquillos and sherry vinegar dressing
Grilled Chicken and Charred Corn with Lime, Chili, Cilantro, and Cotija
Revolution (outside-the-box, or bag, salads)
Buffalo Cauliflower, Chickpea, and Tempeh Salad with Red Cabbage and Blue Cheese Dressing
Jewish Deli Salad with Pickled Beets, Lox, Dill, Capers, Bagel Croutons, and Everything Spice
Get Dressed (mix-and-match dressings)
Roasted shallot vinaigrette with balsamic
Greenest Goddess dressing
Top That! (easy, crunchy, chewy, texturally contrasting toppers)
Crispy Spiced Chickpeas
Shiitake Mushroom "Bacon"
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Blue Star Press
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
4C PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63217-664-6 (9781632176646)
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BECKY SELENGUT is an educator and chef based in Seattle. She is the chef on the M/V Thea Foss and the author of five other cookbooks: Misunderstood Vegetables, Good Fish, Shroom, How to Taste, and Not One Shrine. Selengut forages, makes a mean Manhattan, and shares her life with her sommelier wife, April Pogue.