15 Sexy Salads for Stay at Home Date Nights

Let us help you set the mood for the extravagant dinner you’re about to prepare for your stay at home date night. These sexy salads from savoury to sweet will no doubt be a hit!

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We often associate date nights with lavish dinners in expensive restaurants and costly staycations in 5-star hotels. For many of us, this is a luxury we either can’t afford or physically not able to do so.

This however doesn’t mean you can’t still have romantic date nights. In fact, you should always treat you and your partner to well thought out time to yourselves, just to remind each other how important it is to keep the spark alive.

Stay at home date nights can be so much fun. You are truly only limited by your imagination. Whip up a gorgeous candle lit dinner completed by lovely napery, a special bottle of wine and some music to set the mood.

Cooking your partner, a beautiful meal is something very special and it would of course be incomplete without a sexy salad!

It’s so important to accompany your main fare with an equally well thought out salad. In this collection we have everything from blush pink beetroot cured salmon to delicate roasted purple Brussels sprouts.

Sexy salads for date night doesn’t only mean side salads. We have a great collection of fruit salads that can be turned into something quite spectacular.

How about a dark and moody black fruit salad with edible rose petals or a naughty plum wine infused dragon fruit salad with lime zest?

Don’t’ forget to dress up for the occasion, maybe make a cocktail or two to set the mood. It’s all about having a little fun at home and letting your partner know how much you appreciate them!

Baby Cauliflower and Spiced Chickpeas with Beetroot Tahini on a white marble plate

Baby Cauliflower and Spiced Chickpeas with Beetroot Tahini

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What could be more scrumptious than whole roasted baby cauliflower? Combine them with spiced chickpeas and beetroot tahini, and you’ll have a middle eastern inspired salad that won’t disappoint.

2 serves of Prawn salad with sliced avocado, ruby grapefruit, sliced radish and chopped coriander on a large blue and grey plate.

Prawn Salad with Avocado

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Succulent prawns marinated in a punchy gin and lime marinade and balanced by the creamy gem avocados, ruby grapefruit, peppery radishes and fresh lamb’s lettuce.

This Prawn Salad recipe is calling for you all summer long!

Salmon Sashimi Salad with Crispy Salmon Skin & Yuzu Dressing on a grey plate with black cutlery

Salmon Sashimi Salad with Crispy Salmon Skin

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Fresh salmon combined with cucumber and green apple with savoury bites of crispy salmon skin and garlic chips tied together with tangy yuzu vinaigrette.

A refreshing starter to get all your friends talking tastebuds moving.

Charred Truss Tomato Salad with Stracciatella on a grey plate

Charred Truss Tomato Salad with Stracciatella

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Classic pairings of truss tomato with Stracciatella di buffalo mingled with a deliciously fresh basil and mint pesto. Stunning to serve and easy to make. Pretty good, hey?

Yellow Salad with Zucchini Flowers on a black slate board with 2 sets of gold cutlery

Yellow Salad with Zucchini Flowers

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Zucchini flowers are such special ingredients. Beautiful to look at and delicious when devoured.

Let’s spoil your partner with this gold and yellow themed salad!

Vegan Soba Noodle Salad with Yuzu Dressing in a grey bowl

Vegan Soba Noodle Salad with Yuzu Dressing

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Earthy tones of shimeji mushrooms and soba noodles with the added freshness from the cucumber, seaweed and tangy yuzu dressing, this Vegan Soba Noodle Salad needs no sides.

A perfect meal for two!

Roasted Purple Brussels Sprouts Salad on a white plate

Roasted Purple Brussels Sprouts Salad

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Calling all Brussels sprout lovers! Those with a sophisticated palate yearning for nutty and bitter flavours, this Purple Brussels Sprouts Salad is made for you.

The fragrant spices and heavenly honey add depth to the recipe. Perfect for that special night in!

Balsamic Honey Roasted Figs and Halloumi Salad on a slate board

Balsamic Roasted Figs and Halloumi Salad

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Sweet balsamic roasted figs layered over a bed of crispy halloumi cheese is a fantastic way to start any meal and get the taste buds salivating.

Beetroot Cured Salmon Salad with Black Fish Roe on a black slate board with knife and fork

Beetroot Cured Salmon Salad with Black Fish Roe

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A special occasion, be it a milestone or festive celebration, deserves a salad that will impress your guests.

This Beetroot Cured Salmon Salad is spectacular, not to mention delectable! Go ahead, spoil your partner!

Pickled Shiitake Mushrooms, Lotus Roots and Brown Rice Salad on a white plate

Lotus Root Salad with Pickled Shiitake Mushrooms

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Pickled shiitake mushrooms, stir fried lotus root, crunchy edamame beans and dash of chilli and ginger, gives this healthy Lotus Root Salad a whole lot of kick that is perfect as a meal on its own or as a comforting side dish.

Asparagus and Hot Smoked Salmon Salad on a blue plate

Asparagus and Hot Smoked Salmon Salad

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Easy and delightful. Who doesn’t like that? Our Asparagus and Hot Smoked Salmon Salad is quick and simple to whip up.

The delicious lemony, herby and silky parsley egg dressing will take the dish to another level.

Roasted Rainbow Carrots with Pearl Couscous on a green plate

Roasted Rainbow Carrots with Pearl Couscous

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A deliciously colourful salad with roasted heirloom rainbow carrots and red onions layered on top of a bed of chewy pearl couscous, fresh mint and chopped almonds. A salad that satisfies.

Black Fruit Salad with Tea Rose Syrup o a white marble plate with dried black flowers and rose petals on the side

Black Fruit Salad with Tea Rose Syrup

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Inspired by the popular rose flavours of the Middle East, this rose syrup over sweet fruit is a wonderful way to end an already fabulous dinner party.

Made ahead of time, this Black Fruit Salad is easy, fuss free and ever so stunning when served.

Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple Salad with Lemon Curd on a grey plate

Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple Salad with Lemon Curd

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Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple. Now, doesn’t that sound simply glorious? And to complement it with velvety and tangy lemon curd, you’ll have a dessert fruit salad worthy for all your date night needs!

Blueberry Salad with Plum Wine Infused Dragon fruit on a black plate with black cutlery served with lime wedges on the side

Plum Wine Infused Dragon Fruit Salad

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Looking for a fruit salad with a little sophistication and a touch of sweet wickedness? We douse the stunning looking white dragon fruit with aromatic Japanese plum wine and add some blueberries to create mouthfuls of sensational flavours. This Dragon Fruit Salad is not for the faint hearted!

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10 Comments

  1. Full on impressed by the variations of salads! I’m quite boring with mine but these are on the next level. Nothing short of amazing and yes, sexy!

  2. All of these salads are just exquisite! Your Lotus Root Salad with Pickled Shiitake Mushroom is really calling my name!.

  3. Great collection of salads, one would feel like eating from those super expensive restaurants.

    1. Thank you! But, these are all home made salads that anyone can have go at. Wouldn’t it be great to make these at home?

  4. Oohh wow! What an interesting and unique collection of salads. Completely breaks the myth that salad equals to green leaves and cucumber!

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