This Butter Lettuce Salad is packed with fresh beets and juicy peaches! It's a perfect salad for summer and super easy to make with a simple salad dressing.
Nothin' says summer like a fresh salad with crisp butter lettuce, juicy peaches and farm-fresh green beans!
❣️Why you'll love this butter lettuce salad recipe
This butter lettuce salad recipe is like summer in a bowl.
It's a lick-the-plate-clean kind of salad recipe.
Of course, it's a naturally gluten-free food too - which is perfect when you first go gluten-free and you're wondering what the heck you can eat.
And if that's not enough, it also goes with whatever else you're making for supper.
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📝Ingredients
- Butter lettuce
- Green beans
- 1 beet
- Nectarines or peaches
- Shelled pistachios
For the dressing you'll need:
- Fresh lemon juice
- Olive oil
- Fresh garlic
- Fresh basil
See recipe card for quantities.
If you love butter lettuce salads recipes, check this one out too:
Butter Lettuce Salad with Pomegranates and Pistachios
🔪Instructions
Here's how you'll make it:
Wash the lettuce and tear into bite-sized pieces. Add to a large serving bowl.
Top the lettuce with cut green beans, shredded beets and sliced peaches.
🔄Substitutions
Since this is a salad recipe, it's pretty forgiving with the subs.
Here's some ideas to make it your own:
- Instead of peaches - peaches and pistachios go together like, well, peaches and cream but if you don't have peaches, nectarines are a perfect sub
- No pistachios? - I love nuts in salads because of the crunch factor they give. If you don't have pistachios though, any roasted nut will do - roasted almonds would be delicious too
- Beet free? - if you don't have (or don't love) beets, you could shred some fresh carrots in there instead
🥡Storage and Leftovers
After you make this salad, the butter lettuce will stay fresh for a few days - even with the fresh peaches and shredded beets on top.
Store any leftover salad in the fridge - the butter lettuce needs the cool fridge temps - and eat it up with a day or 2.
If you're making the salad ahead of time, once you wash and tear the bib lettuce, shred the beets and cut the peaches and green beans, keep the ingredients separate.
Then before serving, add the peaches, beets, green beans to the boston lettuce, sprinkle with the nuts and top with the dressing.
Top tip
If you don't like raw green beans, steam the green beans for a couple minutes before using in the salad. Then cool them down by running them under cold water.
🙋♀️More Easy Salad Recipes
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🍽️Pairing
Salads go with a lot. AKA almost everything. Here's a few ways to make this butter lettuce salad part of a summer meal for the whole fam:
📖 Recipe
Summer Butter Lettuce Salad with Beets and Peaches
Ingredients
- 1 large head of butter lettuce about 6 cups
- 1 handful of green beans cut into ¼ inch “coins”
- 1 beet (raw) shredded
- 2 peaches diced
- ¼ cup roasted pistachios shelled and roughly chopped
Salad Dressing Ingredients
- ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ⅓ cup olive oil
- 1 garlic clove minced
- small handful of chopped basil
Instructions
- Hand tear the butter lettuce into a salad bowl. Add cut green beans, shredded beet, diced peaches and roasted pistachios.
- Whisk the lemon juice, olive oil, garlic clove and chopped basil in a small jar.
- Pour over the salad and toss to combine. Serve.
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