260 monte recipes

Cucumbers in yogurt with fresh basil, mint, scallion, and garlic. Cool Mediterranean-style cucumber salad or dip for grilled meats and warm flatbreads.

Pina colada pie layers pineapple sorbet over a macadamia-coconut crust, then crowns with rum-spiked coconut frozen yogurt and fresh pineapple. Frozen tropical cocktail in pie form.

Thai-inspired chopped chicken salad tossed with shallots, scallions, jalapeño, lemon juice, soy sauce, and fresh mint and cilantro. A bright, no-cook dish ready in 15 minutes.

Fresh Mediterranean tomato salad with cucumber, black olives, mint, parsley, and a simple lemon-olive oil dressing. A crisp, herbaceous no-cook side dish ready in 15 minutes.

Tabouleh is a traditional Lebanese parsley salad with fine bulgur, scallions, mint, ripe tomatoes, and a sharp lemon-olive oil dressing. Bright, herbaceous, and built around parsley, not grain.

Capretto alla Locarnese, Swiss-Italian pot-roasted kid or lamb braised with sage, juniper berries, mint, white wine, and finished with cream and rum. A refined Alpine braise.

This is a low-fat recipe, and very healthy and tasty!

Whole chickens stuffed with sausage dressing and smoked over charcoal for 5 hours with a wine-herb water pan. Louisiana-style backyard smoking at its finest. Serves 8.

Thai grilled beef salad (Nam Tok) with flank steak, lime juice, fish sauce, toasted rice powder, and fresh chilies. Smoky, sour, and spicy with a nutty crunch from ground roasted rice.

Greek-style burger sauce with yogurt, cucumber, mint, oregano, cumin, and a splash of red wine. A homemade tzatziki-inspired topping for grilled burgers.

Pink peppermint stick pie set into a chocolate wafer crust, with a no-bake marshmallow-and-cream filling stained candy-cane red. Topped with crushed peppermint sticks for crunch.

Iced cucumber yogurt soup: a no-cook chilled soup blended with mint, scallion, lemon, and garlic, then enriched with sour cream and yogurt. The summer starter that cools the room as it cools the palate.

Wild green salad tossing bittersweet escarole, lemony sorrel, and fresh mint with toasted sunflower seeds in a light herb vinegar dressing. A bright, garden-fresh bowl ready in minutes.

Pseftokeftedes are Santorini tomato fritters mixing chopped Roma tomatoes, scallions, garlic, mint, and oregano into a pancake-style batter, fried crisp in olive oil. Vegetarian Greek meze.

A bright, fiery Thai squid salad (Yum Pra-Hmik) with tender poached squid tossed in lime juice, fish sauce, lemongrass, ginger, mint, and crushed chilies. Fresh and bold.

Crispy breaded turkey tenders stuffed with wine-infused herb butter and baked ham. Each golden bite releases a gush of melted parsley, chive, dill, and mint butter that pools on your plate like liquid gold.