Mediterranean Diet Recipes

This Mediterranean lentil salad is the meal prep recipe I hand to clients who tell me they are tired of chicken and rice. Brown lentils, crisp cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red bell pepper, a big handful of parsley, and feta, all...

This eggplant chickpea bake is my favorite kind of Mediterranean cooking: humble ingredients — an eggplant, two cans of chickpeas, a can of tomatoes — that come out of the oven tasting like a taverna made them. Each serving brings...

This shrimp and white beans skillet is what I cook when I want dinner to taste like a Greek island and take 20 minutes. Shrimp seared in olive oil and garlic, cannellini beans warmed in lemony broth, a pile of...

This Greek chickpea salad is the lunch I make on Sunday and eat straight through Wednesday. Chickpeas, crunchy cucumber, cherry tomatoes, red bell pepper, red onion, kalamata olives, and feta, all tossed in a lemon and oregano dressing. No stove...

This Mediterranean salmon recipe is the one-pan dinner I make when I want something that tastes like a vacation and cleans up like a weeknight. Salmon fillets roast on a sheet pan with cherry tomatoes, zucchini, red onion, and kalamata...

Every Greek grandmother has a version of this, and none of them are wrong. Greek lemon chicken and potatoes is one roasting pan of chicken thighs and potato wedges in lemon, garlic, oregano and olive oil, cooked until the chicken...

Mediterranean stuffed peppers solve the stuffed-pepper problem, which was never the pepper — it was the filling. Swap the white rice and mystery sauce for turkey, quinoa, tomatoes, olives, and feta, and the edible bowl finally earns its dinner slot...

The chicken gyro bowl is what I make when I want gyro flavor without the drive-through pita. Seasoned chicken thighs seared in a hot skillet, a quick tzatziki, a cucumber and tomato salad, and a scoop of brown rice, all...

This shrimp orzo recipe borrows its soul from Greek shrimp saganaki — tomatoes, garlic, and feta melting over seafood — and puts it on a weeknight schedule. One deep skillet, and the orzo cooks right in the sauce. A serving...

Greek turkey meatballs solve the lean-meat problem the Greek way: crumbled feta and grated onion inside the meatball, oregano and dill doing the aromatics, and a hot oven instead of a splattering pan. Five meatballs and a generous share of...