Tori Avey

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Salads and Mezze

A collection of tasty salad and mezze recipes to enjoy all year long. Many of these recipes are inspired by the Mediterranean diet, and feature ingredients that are ripe and in season, when flavor and nutrition are at their peak.

Start your meal with tasty recipes for dishes like quinoa tabbouleh, eggplant matbucha, pickles, whitefish salad, and more.

Hosting a dinner party? A variety of mezze can also make a great meal, especially when hosting guests. Choose several salad and mezze recipes with complementary flavors and allow your guests to pass them around the table to enjoy a variety of new flavors and tasty dishes.

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

Falafel

Overhead shot - spinach strawberry salad on a light blue plate topped with maple balsamic dressing, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and pistachios in foreground. Table set with fork and gray and white stripe linen napkin. Garnish of four small strawberries and two blackberries, and a small glass carafe bottle with maple balsamic dressing, in background.

Strawberry Spinach Salad Recipe

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

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

Horizontal shot - dish and serving bowls filled with kale Caesar salad on a white marble countertip. Linen napkins, metal fork, and two wooden serving spoons beside them.

Kale Caesar Salad

Featured wide horizontal shot - a bowl of roasted eggplant salad with red peppers in a white bowl on a white marble countertop. Fresh tomatoes, dish of olive oil peppers and pita in the background.

Roasted Eggplant Salad

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

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.

Heirloom Tomato Salad

Horizontal shot of a colorful salad with fork and cloth napkin, second dish of salad and large glass salad bowl with towel in background, on a grey marble surface.

Judy Garland’s Favorite Salad

Horizontal shot of a platter filled with roasted brussels sprouts topped with pomegranate molasses.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate Molasses

Horizontal shot - white bowl of cucumber raita with cucumber slices in the background.

Cucumber Raita

Square image - Two white bowls filled with grilled vegetable salad, a mix of grilled zucchini, squash, asparagus, corn, tomatoes, lettuce and basil with lemony basil dressing. A fork sits off to the right side, a large bowl of the same salad in the background.

Grilled Vegetable Salad

Square image of stuffed tomato on a white plate next to fresh basil leaves. Another plate, a sprig of basil in a glass of water, and a white towel with red stripes in the background.

Quinoa Stuffed Tomatoes with Pesto and Goat Cheese

Close up shot of a large bowl filled with crunch pickled salad. A wooden bowl and blue striped napkin sit off to the right side. To the left there is a bunch of fresh radishes.

Crunchy Pickled Salad

Square crop - bowl filled with fresh Israeli Salad with Feta, tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers. Mint and lemon in the background, cloth napkin and wooden spoon beside the bowl.

Israeli Salad With Feta Cheese and Mint

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