Side Dish Recipes

This isn't your ordinary Mom's or Campbell's over-salted Chicken Noodle Soup. Udon noodles, lemongrass, and mushrooms take the soup to the next level.

Love this mediterranean style pasta salad! Marinated artichoke hearts, olives, and feta cheese were a delicious combination. The cherry tomatoes and broccoli add the fresh taste, sometimes we add several strips of roasted bell pepper, or freshly sliced mushrooms, or a few coarsely chopped sun-dried tomatoes.

Give your meal a new look by adding this simple salad that combines classic flavors of creamy fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil.

This quick, easy yet flavorful pasta salad is made with broccoli, sun-dried tomatoes and toasted walnuts. It's packed with goodness and yumminess.

A quick and easy summer salad is made with sweet and juicy cherry tomatoes, fresh and aromatic basil and mozzarella, then tossed with a balsamic vinaigrette. Fresh mozzarella is always the best, but feel free to use normal mozzarella if you don't have any fresh one on hand.

This Mediterranean style dish is packed with flavor. Couscous is simmered in flavorful broth. Bell pepper, spinach, tomatoes and olives not only just add the nice color but also give the dish very refreshing taste. Fresh basil and parmesan sprinkled on top just before serving. A delicious dish can be served as a side dish or a simply delicious main course.

These turned out really great. Sweet and juicy explosions of corn along. The basil really makes this recipe shine. Nice light, clean and crisp taste, perfectly seasoned and it's quick and easy to make.

This sweet, sour and spicy quinoa salad is loaded with flavor. Fresh mangos, spicy jalapeno, and basil give this quinoa salad amazingly delicious taste, and it is quick and easy to prepare as well.

Mediterranean foods are not only delicious, but they are also good for you. This Mediterranean pasta salad is packed with goodness with lots of great flavors. Serve it as a side dish or a simply delicious main dish.

A refreshingly delicious chickpea and pea salad is packed with goodness. Chunks of feta cheese, olives, and sun-dried tomatoes are tossed with chickpea, peas, fresh mint, basil, and a lemon juice-red wine vinegar vinaigrette. A perfect summer salad.

Fresh bruschetta is juicy and flavorful, mozzarella cheese adds the extra layer of cheesiness, and the combination is filled into grilled portobello mushrooms. You may need extra napkin to catch up all these juicy and yummy drippings!

Mushroom tomato basil frittata cooked gently on the stovetop, with crimini mushrooms sauteed in broth instead of oil and fresh basil stirred through the eggs. A light, low-calorie breakfast that comes together in about 20 minutes.

Israeli couscous with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil. A delightful side dish.

This is one of our favorite salad recipes too, quick, easy and delicious. It goes well with almost all the main course. Sometimes we just have it as a light meal and add some croutons on top.

Fresh cherry tomatoes, basil, and toasted almonds make this fresh pesto that highlights the fresh ingredients. A very quick, easy and delicious dish! Originates from the Italian village of Trapani on the tip of Sicily.

Quick bulgur wheat simmered with mushrooms, zucchini, bell pepper, and carrots in an herb-seasoned broth. A diabetic-friendly, low-calorie side dish ready in 30 minutes.