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Mediterranean Side Dishes

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.

Middle Eastern Okra on a plate.

Middle Eastern Okra (Bamya)

A white plate filled with falafel balls next to a bowl of tahini sauce.

Falafel

Close up of a slice of spinach matzo pie with layers of spinach, feta cheese, and artichokes, baked to perfection and served on a white plate, fork and towel beside the plate. Spinach matzo mina pie in background.

Spinach, Feta & Artichoke Matzo Mina

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.

Vegan Moussaka

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

Green Bean Salad

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.

Rainbow Salad

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

Oven Roasted Root Vegetables

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.

Sourdough Pita Bread

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.

Cauliflower Alfredo 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.

Roasted Beet Salad with Kale and Maple Balsamic

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.

Green Beans and Mushrooms with Plum Sauce

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.

Vegan Spanakopita

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.

Mujadara

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.

Maple Roasted Butternut Squash

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.

Fig Salad with Halloumi and Kale

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

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