Side Dish, Low Calorie Recipes

This quick, easy and refreshing dish is a perfect side dish with a pan-seared or oven-baked fish dish.

Asparagus, tofu, and bell pepper are stir-fried in a Chinese based garlic-ginger-soy sauce. It's packed with deliciousness and goodness.

Served this with pasta or caesar salad, and you can use scallions too, anyway it is very tasty.

Quick, easy and flavorful, it goes well with any kind of main course.

Simply blanched the rapini, then a quick stir-fry with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, sesame oil and rice vinegar. The simply tasty dish can be served as a side dish or toss with cooked pasta to make a meal.

Another dish from my childhood memories, and it's my all-time favorite dish that my mom used to make very often. All the ingredients are inexpensive, but the salad tastes so refreshing and flavorful.

Quick orzo salad with grape tomatoes, red onion, and fresh basil in a simple red wine vinaigrette. A 15-minute side dish that shines warm or cold, perfect for picnics and weeknights.

A refreshingly delicious chopped Mediterranean salad is also very quick and easy to put together. A great spring or summer salad with your BBQ.

Crisp yet tender green beans glazed a coating of reduced apple cider. Brings your green bean side dish to life.

A light yet flavorful salad. It's refreshing, tasty and easy to make. Lots of textures and flavors. Creamy, crunchy and delicious.

This recipe is a basic vegetable salad, it can be accompanied with chicken, fish, beef, any kind of meat dish, it can let your body feel light and fresh while you eat meat dishes! Great option.

Seared asparagus and sweet red peppers nestle over peppery arugula, finished with creamy goat cheese. This vibrant vegetarian salad comes together in 18 minutes with bold garlic-ginger vinaigrette.

This tasty spring salad has seasonal sugar snap peas and arugula that are tossed with a light olive oil-balsamic vinaigrette, caramelized shallots and topped with some fresh goat cheese.

This simple recipe actually turned out very tasty, which definitely amazed me, especially with only these a few ingredients. The cumin, fennel and sesame seeds gave the dish load of yumminess. A great summer side dish.

Savoy cabbage wedges steamed in the microwave and topped with a Swiss cheese sauce seasoned with paprika, garlic salt, and dill. A low-calorie vegetable side dish.

Try this quick, easy and simple garlic sauteed rapini, a good way to use up your greens.