Cooking Gorgeous

  • About
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Contact Us
    • Media Mentions
  • Recipe Index
  • Cookbook
  • Shop
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Cozy Soups
  • Recipe Index
  • Cookbook
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Subscribe
  • Work With Me
  • Shop
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • search icon
    Homepage link
    • Cozy Soups
    • Recipe Index
    • Cookbook
    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Subscribe
    • Work With Me
    • Shop
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • ×
    Cooking Gorgeous » Recipes

    Healthy & Tasty Salads

    Celebrate delicious & fresh seasonal produce all year round with the gorgeous salad recipes I love to make again and again. These salads are also perfect as a starter, side dish, mezze, and main!

    Browse my healthy & tasty salad recipes full of flavor and texture, including Baba Ganoush Without Tahini, Piyaz (Turkish Bean Salad), and Warm Austrian Potato Salad.

     

    • Beet Cucumber Salad
    • Cucumber Tomato Feta Cheese Salad
    • Creamy Cucumber Dill Salad
    • Healthy Mediterranean Salad Dressing
    • Lebanese Cabbage Salad - Malfouf Salad
    • Makarna Salatası - Healthy Turkish Pasta Salad
    • Turkish Eggplant Salad - Patlıcan Salatası
    • Potato Salad without Mayonnaise
    • Mediterranean Honey Halloumi Salad
    • Egg salad without mayo in a patterned bowl, with spring onions, green olives, and sun dried tomatoes.
      Healthy Egg Salad Without Mayo
    • Zeytoon Parvardeh - Persian Marinated Olives
    • Greek Lettuce Salad (Maroulosalata)
    • Havuç Tarator - Turkish Carrot Dip with Yogurt
    • Fish Taco Slaw Recipe
    • Sumac onions with parsley in a yellow oval serving dish.
      Sumac Onions
    • Mango Salad with Avocado and Cucumber
    • Pickled Cabbage
    • Easy Chicken Macaroni Salad
    • Overhead shot of feta cheese watermelon salad in a decorative bowl.
      Feta Cheese Watermelon Salad
    • Mango Pico de Gallo - Fresh Mango Salsa
    • Asian Din Tai Fung Cucumber Salad
    • Melitzanosalata (Roasted Greek Eggplant Dip)
    • Persian Shirazi Salad Recipe
    • Thai mango salad in a large bowl.
      Thai Mango Salad
    • Beetroot Salad
    • Russian Salad in a bowl with fresh dill leaves
      Russian Salad (Olivier Salad)
    • Overhead shot of orzo pasta salad with pesto in a blue bowl, garnished with lemon slices.
      Orzo with Pesto
    • A glass bowl of Lebanese fattoush salad with crisp pita croutons.
      Lebanese Fattoush Salad
    • Baba Ganoush Without Tahini
    • Kisir served on lettuce leaves with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and fresh mint.
      Traditional Kisir Recipe (Spicy Turkish Bulgur Salad)
    • Ezme Salad
      Turkish Acili Ezme Salad
    • 25 Turkish Side Dishes
    • Coban Salatasi in a white bowl with chopped tomato, cucumber, red onion, and parsley.
      Coban Salad - Çoban Salatası
    • White Bean Salad
    • Arugula Spinach Salad
    • Tabbouleh with parsley, bulgur, tomatoes and pomegranate seeds in a blue bowl.
      Lebanese Tabbouleh Recipe (Tabouli Salad)
    • Indian chickpea salad
      Indian Chickpea Salad (Chana Salad)
    • Gavurdagi Salad - Turkish Tomato Walnut Salad
    • Greek Salad with feta
      Greek Cucumber Salad
    • Austrian potato salad served with rocket leaves
      Austrian Potato Salad (Erdäpfelsalat)

    Welcome to Cooking Gorgeous, where delicious easy-to-follow recipes and culinary inspiration await you! My name is Ayla Clulee, a passionate and professional Cordon Bleu-trained chef, recipe developer, and food content creator with decades of experience. I am based in the UK, and I'm thrilled to have you here.

    The kitchen is my happy place and cooking is my therapy.

    My cookbook, Easy Turkish & Mediterranean Recipes, is out now in paperback and on Kindle.

    More about me →

    FREE TURKISH BATCH COOKING PLAN

    A Week of Turkish Batch Cooking, a free meal plan with five recipes and one prep day

    Five recipes, one prep day, four dinners. You shop once, cook two slow dishes on a Sunday afternoon, and eat all week. Free to download.

    Soup Recipes

    • Greek Lemon Chicken Soup
    • Orzo Soup (Şehriye Çorbası)
    • Turkish Tarhana Soup - Tarhana Çorbası
    • Homemade Turkish Tarhana Powder Recipe
    • Harira Soup
    • chicken and dumpling soup served in a bowl
      Easy Chicken and Dumpling Soup Recipe

    Fall Favorites

    The last tomatoes become salça, and quinces arrive in the shops from October. Two things I make every fall.

    • Homemade Tomato Paste
    • Overhead view of a syrupy quince half with kaymak, pistachios, and a cinnamon stick.
      Ayva Tatlisi
    • Kuru Fasulye
    • Fig Cake
    • rice pilaf with mushrooms
      Mushroom Rice Recipe
    • Apple Cookies Recipe

    BBQ and Grilling Recipes

    Easy kebabs, salads, dips, and side dishes for your next barbecue.

    • Chicken Shish Kebab Recipe
    • Cucumber Tomato Feta Cheese Salad
    • Bazlama
    • authentic hummus recipe
      Mediterranean Hummus Dip
    • Bulgur Rice Pilaf
    • Grilled BBQ Chicken Thighs

    Featured In

    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    About

    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Accessibility Policy
    • FAQs

    Newsletter

    • Sign Up for emails and updates

    Contact

    • Contact

    Copyright © 2026 Cooking Gorgeous