Mediterranean Recipes
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White-Bean-And-Shrimp Salad With Tarragon Vinaigrette
Stuffed Miniature Eggplants
Mottled Beans With Collard Greens
Lamb and Rice With Olives and Dried Cherries
Savory Bread Pudding With Broccoli and Goat Cheese
For this comforting gratin, broccoli is briefly steamed and seasoned with garlic and thyme before being tossed with the bread, eggs, goat cheese and milk. You can include tomatoes if you can still find good ones.
Couscous and Chickpea Salad
Baked Stuffed Eggplant
Bittersweet Salad
Summer Salad with Feta
This is a modified Greek salad, one I tend to make pretty much nightly during the summer, when I always have these ingredients on hand.
Mediterranean Lentil Salad With Lemon-Thyme Vinaigrette
Spinach and Garlic Omelet
You can use bagged baby spinach or stemmed and washed bunch spinach for this simple omelet with Mediterranean flavors.
Pasta With Cauliflower
This dish is derived from a Marcella Hazan recipe. It’s dead simple, and the cauliflower can be precooked a day ahead or so. Or, the whole thing can be made at once: cook the cauliflower in water, scoop it out and then, later, cook the pasta in the same water. It’s already boiling, and you want the taste of the cauliflower anyway, so why not? The cauliflower gets cooked more, in a skillet with toasted garlic, so don’t boil it to death, although you do want it to be tender. And in the original Minimalist recipe, from 2000, bread crumbs were added to the skillet along with the cauliflower, but since some pasta water is usually added to the skillet to keep the mixture saucy, the bread crumbs become soggy. Better, then, to stir the bread crumbs in at the very end. They should be very coarse and ideally homemade, and if they’re toasted in olive oil in a separate skillet before you toss them in, so much the better.
Eggplant Stuffed With Rice and Tomatoes
Travel anywhere in the Mediterranean region, and you will find stuffed vegetables. In Provence, they tend to be filled with meat (a way to stretch leftover stews), but in the Middle East and Greece rice and grain fillings prevail. Regional cooks make abundant use of fresh herbs like parsley, dill and mint, and sweet spices like cinnamon and allspice. Fragrant stuffed vegetables can be made ahead of the meal and served hot or at room temperature. They don’t require a lot of patience to assemble — they just need a long simmer and then a rest to let the flavors mingle and intensify. Eat them as a main dish or a side, and serve up leftovers for lunch. The filling for these irresistible stuffed eggplants is also good for peppers and squash. Substitute the chopped flesh of the summer squash for the eggplant, and just use the rice and tomatoes for peppers. Make these a day ahead for best results.
Olive-Oil-Poached Fish With Pasta
There are no fish I can think of that don’t cook nicely slathered in warm olive oil. Here, a mix of several varieties is tossed with pasta, tomato and herbs. How could you go wrong with that?
Cumin-Spiced Lamb Burgers
Gluten-Free Whole Grain Mediterranean Pie Crust
For the flour here I use the same 70 percent whole grain flour to 30 percent starch (like potato starch, arrowroot or cornstarch) that I used in my whole grain gluten-free muffins a few weeks ago. It is based on a formula created by Shauna James Ahern, a gluten-free food blogger. Because there is no gluten involved you don’t have to worry about overworking the dough, but the dough can break apart if you try to roll it out. I just press it into the pan, which is easy to do. I love the strong, nutty-flavored combination of buckwheat flour and millet flour. If you want a crust with a milder flavor, try a combination of cornmeal and millet flours or teff and millet flours.
Mediterranean Fish Soup
Turkey Cutlets In Anchovy-Lemon Sauce
Sauteed Turkey With Lemon and Capers
Spring Vegetable Stew
This is inspired by a lush Sicilian springtime stew called fritteda that also includes peas and fava beans (and much more olive oil). This one is simpler, but equally sweet and heady because of all the fennel and the spring onions. I like to serve it with bow tie pasta and a little Parmesan as a main dish, or with grains as part of a meal in a bowl. It also makes a delicious side dish with just about anything. The stewed vegetables will keep for about 3 days in the refrigerator, but the dish is best freshly made.
Potato and Chickpea Soup With Yogurt
Black Olive Paste
I Trulli's White Anchovy And Orange Salad