Vegetable Recipes Are A Healthy Delight

Vegetable recipes brighten your table. I reveal to you the hidden wealth of invaluable vegetarian recipes from the Mediterranean to add variety to your meals.

	Vegetable recipes Mediterranean nature on your plate

The Mediterranean region is blessed with a sunny climate that produces excellent vegetables and fruit the whole year through. Whether you like to eat your vegetables as a side dish, or as a main course, here you'll find a vegetable recipe for you.

Centuries-old gastronomical creativity has made wonders with vegetable recipes based on succulent eggplants, cucumbers, cauliflower, pears, zuchini, tomatoes, sweet onions, peppers, pumpkin flowers, fava beans, sweet potatoes, olives, wild mushrooms... the list is endless.

Eat eggplants caramelized with sugar or add them to a mellow samfaina. As the cold begins to bite, rice with chestnuts or Swiss chard are optimum plant-food dishes.

When properly roasted, fresh peppers transform themselves into the amazingly sweet bite we call escalivada. Pears cooked in strong Priorat wine from Catalonia are mouthwatering.

A simple bread rubbed with tomato and seasoned with oil and salt, our popular pa amb tomàquet, accompanied with a bunch of grapes, makes a humble but exquisite breakfast or afternoon snack. The sweet and savory contrast between a country-style bread seasoned with olive oil and salt, and a few figs is superb in its simplicity.

A vegetable dip like allioli mellowed with quinces from the colder mountain regions of Catalonia is stunningly good. A vegetable recipe like the Majorcan tombet is a popular vegetarian dish for the fall that's little known outside the Majorca borders.

If we continue surfing the Mediterranean cuisine, we encounter Italian pesto, dozens of aubergine recipes in Greece and Turkey, Lebanese hummus, Palestinian falafel, Egyptian fava bean casseroles, we could go on and on.

Directory of vegetable recipes

This directory regards vegetable recipes as plant-food recipes in the broadest sense. It includes recipes prepared with vegetables, rice, nuts, fruit, grains and legumes. Also, some Mediterranean recipes are lacto-ovo-vegetarian, which means that they contain eggs and dairy, typically desserts. Others are strictly vegetarian.

Before you scroll down to the annotated directory of vegetable recipes, one last brief piece of advice. When cooking Mediterranean diet recipes, specially vegetable recipes, try to use the best vegetables you can get.

Mediterranean recipes are often simplicity itself: They focus on bringing out the purest natural flavors of the ingredient itself without a lot of handling. That's why if you prepare them with second-rate produce you can be disappointed. Use natural fresh fruit and vegetables and you'll be happily surprised.

Artichoke recipe – Lacto-vegetarian when using butter.
Artichoke white stew with eggs typical of North Catalonia (Roussillon). It allows a lovely presentation. Read more»

Asparagus casserole recipe – Vegetarian
Delicious vegetable stew with asparagus and sweet peas that brings the Mediterranean spring aromas to your table.Read more»

Asparagus recipe – Lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Easy and delicious omelette recipe with asparagus. For vegetarians it can be a Mediterranean diet main course too. Read more»

Babaganoush – Vegetarian
Eggplant mousse from the Arabic cuisine now popular across the whole world. The perfect model of a healthy and delicious Mediterranean diet recipe. Read more»

Bruschetta recipe – Vegetarian when plain or with a vegetable topping
Pa amb tomàquet is the preeminent Catalan comfort food: Bread, tomato, olive oil and different toppings. It can be eaten as an accompaniment, for breakfast, snack, etc. Read more»

Homemade pizza – Vegetarian when choosing a vegetable topping
Traditional coca or Catalan-style pizza with a variety of toppings. It can be eaten as a whole meal, appetizer or main course, for breakfast or as a snack. Read more»

Hummus recipe – Vegetarian
Healthy vegetarian recipe made with pureed chickpeas. It's very popular in the Eastern Mediterranean Arabic countries and increasingly in the whole world. Read more»

Mushroom recipe – Vegetarian
Quick and easy grilled wild brown cap mushrooms. In Catalonia it is traditionally prepared with rovellons, English: bleeding milk caps (Lactarius sanguifluus). Read more»

Mushroom soup recipe – Vegetarian
Catalan-style mushroom soup. It is great with bloody milk-caps or other brown cap mushrooms like portobello, or even Japanese dried shitake mushrooms. Read more»

Omelette recipe – Lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Flat round omelette filled with potatoes. You can serve it as appetizer o main course. Read more»

Rice and chestnut recipe – Vegetarian
Succulent and nutritious rice with roasted chestnuts typical of the fall. It can be a main course for vegetarians too. Read more»

Rice and Swiss chard recipe – Vegetarian
Everyday vegetarian rice with Swiss chard. Read more»

Roasted vegetables – Vegetarian
Escalivada as we call roasted or grilled vegetables like pepper, eggplant and others is a fantastic traditional vegetarian cold appetizer. Several Mediterranean recipes call for roasting your vegetables too. They add that unique smoky flavor to dishes! Read more»

Simple dinner recipe – Lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Quick and easy dinner meal for every day: Steamed or boiled potatoes and green beans or other vegetables seasoned with healthy olive oil, and a plain omelette. Read more»

Egg salad recipe – Lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Salad recipe with boiled eggs and refreshing lemon from Morocco. Read more»

Lettuce salad recipe with oranges – Vegetarian
Juicy orange and lettuce salad seasoned with olive oil from Majorca. Read more»

Aioli – Vegetarian
Authentic Catalan allioli with olive oil and garlic, no eggs. Read more»

Aioli recipe – Vegetarian
Diluted or "drowned" allioli recipe that you can add to stews. Read more»

Fruit dip recipe – Vegetarian
Mellow aioli with quince from the allioli family delicious as sauce, accompaniment, dip or spread. Read more»

Pesto recipe – Lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Traditional sauce recipe for Italian pasta. Pesto is made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil pecorino cheese, and more. Read more»

Salad dressing recipe – Vegetarian
Romesco is a unique Catalan sauce from Tarragona that smart international gourmets discovered a while ago. It is based on dried sweet peppers, pulverized hazelnuts and almonds, and ripe tomatoes among other ingredients. Read more»

Samfaina – Vegetarian
Succulent vegetable medley traditionally used as a sauce or base for fish, and meat dishes. However, samfaina is increasingly consumed as a vegetarian appetizer too. Read more»

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