35 Festive Holiday Salads: Colorful Vegan & Plant-Based Recipes for Christmas and Thanksgiving

Sharon Palmer RD

Published on November 23, 2025

Discover 35 festive holiday salads bursting with color, flavor, and plant-based nutrition. This vegan recipe collection features healthy Christmas and Thanksgiving salads perfect for potlucks, parties, and holiday dinners—from top food bloggers.

Bring fresh, vibrant flavor to your holiday table with this curated collection of 35 festive holiday salads, each one completely plant-based, vegan, and packed with seasonal color. These wholesome recipes—from some of the top food bloggers (and some from me too!)—offer the perfect balance of nourishment and celebration, making them ideal for Christmas dinners, Thanksgiving menus, potlucks, parties, and family gatherings. Whether you’re looking for bright winter greens, fruit-forward salads, hearty grain bowls, or creative veggie combinations, this collection offers something for every taste and every occasion. Add a burst of freshness to your holiday meals with salads that are as beautiful as they are delicious.

After all, who says you can’t have salads on your holiday menu? Just make them colorful, seasonal, and special! That’s the thinking behind this collection of 35 gorgeous, mouth-watering, completely plant-based salads that are perfect for holiday meals, offering an inspirational sampler of recipes from some of my favorite bloggers, and some of my own favorites that grace my holiday table each year.

Happy Holidays, from my home to yours,

Sharon

35 Holiday Plant-Based Salads

Holiday Bean Salad Recipes

Black Lentil Pomegranate Salad, Alana Haldan, Sprouts and Krauts (shown above)
Cauliflower Cranberry Superfood Salad, Karman Meyer, The Nutrition Adventure

Herbed Green Bean Potato Salad, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN (shown above)

Lima Bean Salad with Sumac Spice, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN (shown above)

Mediterranean Lentil Salad with Roasted Red Peppers, Lexi Endicott, To Taste (shown above)

Holiday Fruit Salad Recipes

Ambrosia Salad, Kristine Duncan, RDN, Veg Girl RD (shown above)

Holiday Green Salad Recipes

Beetroot Salad, Chris Mosler, Thinly Spread

Christmas Salad, Stacey Gero, Stacy Homemaker (shown above)

Citrus and Arugula Salad with Fennel and Marcona Almonds, Rachael Hartley, RDN (shown above)
Fig Arugula Salad with Maple Vinaigrette, Prajakta Sukhatme, Profusion Curry

Pickled Fennel Citrus Salad, Gina Matsoukas, Running to The Kitchen (shown above)

Roasted Delicata Squash Apple Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette, Jessica Levinson, RDN (shown above)
Roasted Pear, Walnut and Cranberry Salad, Kelly Page, Tasting Page
Winter Citrus & Arugula Salad with Cranberry Orange Dressing, Linda Meyer, Veganosity (shown above)
Winter Salad with Red Cabbage, Kale and Pomegranate, Julia Frey, VikaLinka

Holiday Pasta and Grain Salad Recipes

Balsamic Fig Pasta Salad, Sarah Jeanne, Well and Full
Cranberry Quinoa Kale Salad, Karen Gibson, Soup Addict

Kale, Pecan & Cranberry Pasta Salad, Renee DeLeon, Veeg (shown above)

Pomegranate Avocado Quinoa Salad, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN (shown above)

Roasted Squash Farro Salad, Deryn Macey, Running on Real Food (shown above)
Sweet Potato Quinoa Salad, Alexandra Cook, It’s Not Complicated Recipes

Warm Butternut Squash Quinoa Salad with Candied Pecans, Caitlin Self, Frugal Nutrition (shown above)