Sides and Small Plates
Peperonata (Italian Stewed Peppers)
This Italian Peperonata recipe makes for a flavorful, colorful, and perfectly simple vegan side dish or appetizer.
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Sides and Small Plates
This Italian Peperonata recipe makes for a flavorful, colorful, and perfectly simple vegan side dish or appetizer.
Dips and Condiments
Aioli recipe (Garlic Aioli) with extra virgin olive oil comes together with a few pantry items, bold garlic flavor, and a strong whisk!
Recipe Roundups
Use these easy Mediterranean chicken marinade recipes and you’ll never again have a boring chicken dinner! All of them are make-ahead friendly and they’ll work on breasts, thighs, or any other cut of chicken you prefer!
Fish and Seafood
When it comes to tender, flaky salmon make grilled salmon. I give you two options! One directly on the grates and one in foil! You choose!
Dips and Condiments
Homemade labneh, a 2-ingredient creamy yogurt cheese, is an easy-to-make Middle Eastern spread. Use this labneh recipe in place of cream cheese.
Fish and Seafood
Easy baked rainbow trout recipe with lemon, garlic, cumin, and paprika. Give baked trout a bold Mediterranean flavor!
Salads
Wilted spinach salad with quick pickled onions, walnuts, cannellini beans and goat cheese. This warm spinach salad a great healthy lunch!
Salads
Kisir is a spiced Turkish bulgur salad with pomegranate molasses, tomatoes and parsley. This power salad filled with vegan protein and nutrients!
Salads
This quinoa tabbouleh has all the vibrant herbs, juicy tomatoes, and zingy citrus of the classic, but its completely gluten-free thanks to nutty, protein-packed quinoa!
Snacks
Crunchy outside and creamy inside, these herb-flecked polenta fries aren’t actually fried! Make them in the oven or air fryer and serve them as the perfect gluten-free snack or side dish!
Vegetarian
Start the day with whole grains the savory way. Savory oatmeal bowls, topped with sautéed sweet potatoes and eggs have loads of fresh flavor.
Drinks
Strawberry Lemonade is the original pink lemonade. Made with fresh lemon juice and a pound of strawberries means it’s the official drink of summer!
Fish and Seafood
These shrimp bowls bring together garlicky sautéed shrimp, bright Greek lemon rice, a quick-toss bean and avocado salad, and a herby green goddess dressing, all on the table in 30 minutes. They’re a perfect weeknight dinner and great for meal-prep, too!
Meat and Poultry
Kabsa is fragrant spiced rice and chicken cooked together with orange zest, dried limes, and a homemade eight-spice blend. One pot, unforgettable flavor!
Breakfast
Breakfast cookies may look like ordinary oatmeal cookies, but they’re free of refined sugar, oil, and butter; and loaded with nutrient-dense ingredients, making them a wholesome way to start the day. Customize the recipe with your favorite nut butter, dried fruit, or any other mix-in you like!
Entree
Shrimp scampi is a classic Italian-American dish of succulent shrimp in a garlicky, buttery, white wine lemon sauce, and it’s easy to make!
Meat and Poultry
Chicken Marsala is the dish that showed me what mushrooms can do at their best! This lighter version, made with stock, milk, and just a splash of cream, is the one that lets them prove it.
Appetizer and Mezze
Cucumber sandwiches are the quintessential tea party sandwich. This finger food are best served the same day you make them. Perfect for graduation, Mother’s Day, bridal showers, baby showers, and more.
Dips and Condiments
Sauce Gribiche is a classic French sauce made with hard-boiled eggs, capers, cornichons, and fresh herbs. The egg yolks, whisked together with olive oil and mustard gives it a creamy, velvety texture. It’s perfect over steamed asparagus, poached chicken, boiled potatoes, and more.
Salads
This Mediterranean quinoa salad recipe is packed with bell peppers, cucumbers, olive and feta and finished with a lemony olive oil dressing.
Desserts
Koulourakia are Greece’s iconic Easter cookies, fragrant with fresh orange zest, vanilla, and warm butter. They’re shaped by hand into twists and spirals, a tradition that includes even the littlest family members. This version combines butter and extra-virgin olive oil for a cookie that’s crisp without being crumbly, and lightly sweet.
Soups and Stews
Spinach soup with feta, lemon, pine nuts, and dill—inspired by the flavors of traditional spanakopita—is creamy and super nutritious.
Vegan
Chickpea salad sandwich with cucumber, tomatoes, herbs, and a zippy Dijon vinaigrette. This vegan sandwich recipe is perfect for your next vegan picnic!
Italian
Spaghetti aglio e olio with garlic, olive oil, red pepper flakes and parmesan. An easy Italian pasta recipe that uses only pantry basics, you just need 5 ingredients and 20 minutes.