Mediterranean Recipes

Discover easy and tasty Mediterranean recipes including healthy Mediterranean meals, quick Mediterranean dinners, Greek-inspired dishes, Italian favorites, Mediterranean diet recipes, and fresh vegetarian meals. Perfect for healthy weeknight dinners, entertaining, or light summer cooking.
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Easy Diced Potatoes in the oven
Delicious mini crispy diced potatoes that don't need any parboiling! This is the perfect quick and easy weeknight roasted potato dish, but it also looks so classy at a dinner party. Five minutes' prep, then the oven does the rest!
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1-Hour Air Fryer Rotisserie Chicken
All the tips you need to cook a perfectly delicious, crispy and moist rotisserie chicken in your air fryer. Perfect for midweek meals with simple sides, or shred the chicken and use for meal prep throughout the week.
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5-Minute Lemon Tahini Salad Dressing
This lemon tahini salad dressing is delicious tossed through summer salads, grain-based salads and pasta salads, but also drizzled over vegetables, falafel, and even grilled meat. It's so versatile! It's also vegan, gluten free and dairy free, and also happens to take just 5 minutes to make!
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Greek Stuffed Peppers and Tomatoes
Want to know how to cook gemista like the very best you’ve had on your holiday to Greece? Otherwise known as stuffed peppers and tomatoes, this fantastic summer recipe is a Greek classic dish that’s stayed popular for good reason. It’s healthy, it’s filling, it’s authentic, it’s amazingly tasty… and it makes fantastic leftovers!
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5 Minute Greek Yogurt Dill Dip
It’s hard to imagine how a dip could be simpler than this no-cook Greek yogurt dill dip. Very similar to tzatziki (without the cucumber!), all you’ll need to make it is 5 minutes and 5 simple ingredients. This is so versatile! Dip raw veggies, chips, halloumi fries, zucchini fries – whatever you like – into it, or even turn it into a simple creamy sauce for salmon, chicken and more.
Grab an authentic Greek chicken gyro pita from a neighbourhood ‘souvlaki shop’ in Greece or… make it yourself at home. No need for a spit! Just cook marinated chicken thigh pieces in your oven. Then wrap in pita bread with ripe tomatoes, tangy onion, crunchy lettuce, refreshing tzatziki sauce and… fries! You won’t believe how similar these chicken gyro pitas taste to the ones in Greece, and how easy they are to make in around 30 minutes!
Super easy Greek Chicken Gyro Pita
Grab an authentic Greek chicken gyro pita from a neighbourhood ‘souvlaki shop’ in Greece or… make it yourself at home. No need for a spit! Just cook marinated chicken thigh pieces in your oven. Then wrap in pita bread with ripe tomatoes, tangy onion, crunchy lettuce, refreshing tzatziki sauce and… fries! You won’t believe how similar these chicken gyro pitas taste to the ones in Greece, and how easy they are to make in around 30 minutes!
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Fasolakia (Greek Green Beans)
‘Fasolakia’ has to be one of the most delicious ways to eat green beans! There are a few potatoes in it, making it surprisingly satisfying eaten by itself in a bowl with plenty of feta cheese and bread to mop up the delicious tomato and olive oil sauce. Greek green beans also make a perfect ‘fancy but easy’ side dish, and they won’t even take up oven space – just simmer on the stove.
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Greek Red Pepper Dip
Bring a taste of the Mediterranean summer into your kitchen with this quick and easy feta dip recipe! Tangy, creamy, zesty and just a little bit fiery, ‘tyrokafteri’ (literally ‘hot cheese’ in Greek) is a spicy feta dip that’s perfect for mezze platters, or simple appetizers and snacks. Throw just 5 simple ingredients into a food processor. In just 5 minutes, your dip will be ready for shovelling into your mouth with warm flat bread, pita chips or on the side with a classic Greek meal. Move over tzatziki!
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24 Greek Side Dishes
Moussaka, Greek roast lamb, souvlaki or pastitsio! Whichever you’re in the mood to make, you’ll want a tasty and easy Greek side dish to go with it, right? So if it’s all Greek to you when it comes to what to serve with a classic Greek dish, I’ve got you covered with this list of 24 delicious, no-fuss ideas! (which, incidentally, all happen to be vegetarian!) Kali orexi! (Enjoy your meal!)
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Easy Greek Beef Stew 'Stifado'
There’s a good chance even those who are not a fan of stews will enjoy this version of Greek beef ‘stifado’. ‘Hidden secret’ ingredients make the sauce so sweet, sticky and fragrant and the stars of the show, beef and onions, are meltingly tender. The flavors in ‘stifado’ might be complex, but it’s very easy to make without even turning on your oven. Don’t forget to serve with feta cheese and plenty of bread to mop up the deeply-flavored, wine-rich sauce.