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    Salad Meals

    All the recipes in this category can be served as side salads but they're also perfect as lunch salads or light dinner ideas. Having complex carbohydrates, healthy fats (mostly from the olive oil) and some kind of protein, these salad recipes are complete meals.

    Make sure to try this healthy Mediterranean quinoa salad with beans, this creamy salmon pasta salad and this Mediterranean potato salad with eggs (Nicoise).

     

     

    • Buckweat lentil salad with olive oil & lemon dressing
    • Green salad with chicken, spinach and fruit
    • Healthy Mediterranean potato salad with boiled eggs (Nicoise)
    • Creamy salmon pasta (healthy too!)
    • Salmon salad (Mediterranean style)
    • Greek Chickpea Salad Recipe (Garbanzo Bean Salad)
    • Giant white bean (lima bean) salad recipe
    • Potato mash with red beans, egg and mustard greens.
    • Healthy Mediterranean Quinoa Salad with Beans
    • Chicken Spinach and strawberry salad with arugula
    • Mediterranean shrimp and avocado salad
    • Mediterranean bulgur & lentil lunch salad
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