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Mediterranean Side Dishes: Vibrant and Delicious Recipes by Tori Avey

This collection of Mediterranean side dish recipes is filled with tasty dishes featuring delicious seasonal ingredients at their peak of flavor and nutrition.

Typical Mediterranean main dishes feature seasonal ingredients, creating a colorful array of vegetables, grains, and proteins on your plate. As with all Mediterranean meals, menus change with the season in order to focus on seasonal ingredients that are ripe and full of fresh flavor. In winter, broccoli and cauliflower are common; in summer you’ll find lots and lots of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and colorful salad ingredients, fall menus take advantage of squash and cabbage; and in spring you’ll find carrots, asparagus, and fresh herbs – just to name a few!

Healthy fats are encouraged in the Mediterranean diet and many of the fish recipes seen here have them in abundance. When you’re consuming sugar carbs, having a healthy fat in the mix can help to keep blood sugar from spiking too rapidly.

In this collection, you’ll find Mediterranean side dishes that compliment any meal, any time of year.

A square slice of vegan moussaka on a small white plate in foreground with fork and linen napkin. A red, rectangular baking dish and a stainless steel serving shovel on the background with another serving of a sliced vegan moussaka.

Tori Avey’s Hearty Vegan Moussaka: Plant-Based Delight

Green bean salad with walnuts and parmesan as garnish on a white bowl.

Green Bean Salad

Horizontal image of a white plate filled with falafel balls. A bowl of tahini sauce, fresh herbs, a head of garlic, and pita bread sit in the background.

Tori Avey’s Traditional Falafel Recipe: Authentic and Delicious

Bowl of colorful rainbow salad with peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms and cabbage in a white bowl with glass dish of lemon juice, carafe of olive oil and blue napkin with wooden spoon in the background.

Tori Avey’s Vibrant Rainbow Salad: Easy, Healthy, and Delicious

Overhead shot of oven roasted root vegetables with beets, carrots, potatoes, and parsnip. Spoon and fresh herbs on the side, cloth napkin above.

Tori Avey’s Easy Oven Roasted Root Vegetables: Delicious Recipe

Horizontal close up - Pile of freshly baked pita breads on a plate, striped blue and white linen napkin in foreground, two small dishes of dip in background - hummus and yogurt dip - with a wooden spoon and a flour canister in the background, as well.

Tori Avey’s Sourdough Pita Bread: Homemade Deliciousness

Horizontal shot - large shallow bowl of roasted cauliflower Alfredo with peas, covered in a rich Greek yogurt Alfredo sauce, on a marble countertop. Fork and napkin with green stripes beside the bowl. Small wooden bowl of shaved parmesan in upper right corner of the picture, and a small gold metal pan of Alfredo sauce with freshly cracked black pepper in upper left hand corner. Gold pan rests on a white linen towel.

Tori Avey’s Healthy Cauliflower Alfredo: Greek Yogurt Sauce with Peas

Horizontal shot - shallow bowl filled with roasted beet salad with kale and goat cheese. Fork and striped linen napkin beside the bowl. Partial view of another salad bowl filled with salad, fork, and napkin in background. All resting on a white marble countertop.

Tori Avey’s Roasted Beet Salad: Kale, Maple Balsamic Bliss

Overhead horizontal shot - large shallow bowl filled with green beans and mushrooms tossed in a rich brown plum sauce. Dish rests on a marble countertop, wooden spoon and kitchen towel beside it.

Tori Avey’s Plum Glazed Green Beans and Mushrooms – Flavorful Sauté

Horizontal shot of a two white plates containing square slices of vegan spanakopita. A glass dish with the remaining spanakopita is in the background to the left.

Tori Avey’s Plant-Based Greek Spanakopita Pie – Vegan Recipe

Horizontal shot. In foreground, small dish of mujadara lentils and rice topped with caramelized onions, with fork and cloth napkin beside it. In background, oblong platter of mujadara topped with caramelized onions, spoon and cloth napkin beside it; dish of three lemons in background, against a tile wall.

Tori Avey’s Mujadara Recipe: Lentils, Rice & Caramelized Onions

Maple Roasted Butternut Squash in a large serving bowl on a marble countertop. Blue and white linen striped cloth towel and dark wooden spoon beside the bowl.

Tori Avey’s Easy Maple Roasted Butternut Squash: Baked Delight

Overhead tilted horizontal shot of two white bowls filled with fig salad - fresh fig halves tossed with dark green curly kale, fried halloumi cheese, and walnuts. Linen napkins and fork, two wooden spoons for serving decorate the white marble countertop, alongside fresh fig halves scattered beside the bowls.

Tori Avey’s Fig Salad: Kale, Halloumi & Delectable Flavors

Vertical shot of a slice of spanakopita on a white plate, a baking dish filled with the remaining spanakopita is sitting in the background.

Easy Spanakopita

Overhead shot of a white bowl filled with fresh heirloom tomato salad topped with basil. Bowl rests on a wooden cutting board on a white marble background, with large fresh heirloom tomatoes, a linen towel, and a slice of lemon on the side.

Tori Avey’s Heirloom Tomato Salad: Easy and Delicious with Fresh Basil

Vertical wide shot of trenette al pesto - delicious pasta recipe with trenette or linguine pasta, potatoes, and green beans in a white bowl on a marble counter. Lemon and basil with towel in background.

Tori Avey’s Trenette al Pesto: Authentic Italian Pasta Recipe

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