Lettuce Riot

Lettuce Riot is a high-protein salad cookbook featuring 50 bold, satisfying recipes that redefine what a salad can be.

Forget restrictive bowls of plain lettuce. Chef and author Becky Selengut delivers vibrant combinations of vegetables, beans, meat, seafood, tofu, tempeh, crunchy toppings, and punchy dressings—all served with generous helpings of humor.

Each recipe includes a nutritionist-backed protein count, helping home cooks choose filling options for lunch, dinner, meal prep, or entertaining.

What’s inside:

• 50 substantial salad recipes with exciting flavors, colors, and textures
• Protein counts for every recipe, backed by a nutritionist
• Classic salads with unexpected twists, including Salt and Vinegar Potato Salad with Dill Pickles and Potato Chips
• Portable, make-ahead options designed to taste even better over time
• Creative meat, seafood, and plant-based recipes
• Mix-and-match dressings and toppings for customizing any bowl
• 35 full-color photographs plus humorous margin doodles

Recipes are organized into five playful chapters:

• Groundwork: Reinvented classics, including Cobb Salad with Katsu Tofu
• Mobilize: Travel-friendly recipes such as Chickpea Chopped Salad with Chorizo, Olives, Almonds, and Sherry Vinegar Dressing
• Revolution: Boundary-pushing combinations like Jewish Deli Salad with Lox, Bagel Croutons, and Everything Spice
• Get Dressed: Flavorful options such as Roasted Shallot Vinaigrette and Greenest Goddess Dressing
• Top That!: Crunchy and chewy additions, including Crispy Spiced Chickpeas and Shiitake Mushroom “Bacon”

Whether you want hearty weekday lunches, protein-rich dinners, or new recipes for a potluck, this salad cookbook makes it easy to create meals with real staying power. Witty, colorful, and refreshingly unconventional, this inventive salad cookbook is also a fun gift for adventurous cooks, meal preppers, and food lovers.

Product Details:
224 pages | 7-1/2 x 10 inches | English | Sasquatch Books | ISBN 9781632176646

 

BECKY SELENGUT is an educator and chef based in Seattle. She is the chef on the M/V Thea Foss and the author of five other cookbooks: Misunderstood Vegetables, Good Fish, Shroom, How to Taste, and Not One Shrine. Selengut forages, makes a mean Manhattan, and shares her life with her sommelier wife, April Pogue.

Format: Hardcover
Size: 7-1/2 x 10
ISBN: 9781632176646