Salad is a surprisingly good way to enjoy a good pan-seared or grilled steak. These delicious steak salad recipes are great for lunch or dinner.
These salads require a little bit of cooking, but that’s fine because they can be your whole meal. You can grill the steaks or cook them in a skillet. The trick in some of them is a great marinade for the steak.
These recipes also come with their own homemade salad dressing recipes. Some have blue cheese style dressings, while others have balsamic vinaigrettes.
If steak sounds expensive, know that several of these call for less expensive cuts like flank steak. You don’t need filet or New York strip to make these delicious.
Be sure to check out our other salad recipes, too!
Best Steak Salad Recipes
Apple maple dressing contrasts with the savory flavors in this steak and squash salad. This salad has flank steak, yellow squash, cranberries and pepitas along with several types of greens.
It's deliciously seasoned, and only takes 45 minutes to put together.
This Chimichurri Steak Salad with Grilled Vegetables is hearty, fresh, and flavorful. It has flank steak that’s tender and juicy, served over a bed of crunchy greens and fresh summer vegetables.
Plus, the veggies and meat get charred on the grill before you put them on the salad, for that extra smoky flavor. It's all drizzled with balsamic and a zesty chimichurri sauce.
This gluten free steak salad recipe with homemade avocado dressing is hearty enough to fill you up. It's also got some real nutrition in the form of vitamins and minerals.
The recipe comes with some modications you can make if you want it to be dairy-free, paleo, or keto.
Moxie's Copycat - Grilled Steak Salad with Feta Cheese & Clamato Dressing
This is a copycat recipe from a Canadian restaurant chain. It gets a lot of its flavor from the classic salad ingredients, like spring mix, red onions and tomatoes, plus delicious steak.
But the most unique thing about it might be the Clamato dressing which features Clamato juice with garlic and Dijon mustard.
This is an easy steak salad full of healthy ingredients. It has a simple homemade orange vinaigrette dressing that you make yourself.
If you want a healthy salad with plenty of protein, this is it. The dressing is lightly sweet from the balsamic vinegar, orange juice and honey. Instead of the usual olive oil it uses avocado oil.
This Chimichurri Steak Salad is a little different from the one above. It features crisp salad greens, creamy avocado, and crunchy veggies along with a marinated, grilled flank steak.
Along with the salad greens, it features herb salad, which you can buy prepackaged at the store. It will have ingredients like cilantro, parsley, baby green leaf, baby red leaf, baby spinach, tango, and green oak lettuce.
You make a homemade chimichurri dressing for this one.
This is a salad that serves as a main dish. Along with deliciously marinated top sirloin steak, this salad features grilled Romaine lettuce. It's topped with blue cheese dressing.