light meal

Ideas for light meals, either lunch or supper.

Toasted pita bread with spinach and garbanzo beans

This toasted pita bread with spinach and garbanzo beans provides a healthy vegetarian option.

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Baby spinach salad

Baby spinach is tender and sweet, far gentler than mature spinach, and perfect raw in a salad. Here it's tossed with creamy avocado, sharp red onion, and crisp yellow pepper, then bound together with a tangy yogurt dressing. It comes together in fifteen minutes and makes a fresh, light lunch or a side that holds its own next to grilled meat or fish.

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Warm bean and feta salad

A simple bean salad with a traditional Greek flavor profile from the feta cheese, olive oil, lemon and oregano.

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Tomato and garlic frittata

This is a basic frittata recipe that you can enhance to your taste. The combinations are endless but sometimes just a quick and basic recipe like this one hits the spot.

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Rosemary and cannellini bean bruschetta

Beans and bread make a complete protein. As for texture, imagine refried beans and you'll get close. The flavor falls completely in the Italian profile.

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Red onion and goats cheese pastry

Cheese and onios, different types of cheese and varieties of onion, are one of the most popular flavor combinations. The magic still works when it is red onions and goat cheese as in this recipe.

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Irish bread pudding

What can you do with leftover soda bread? Bake an Irish bread pudding! Bread pudding is always a favorite with children. Irish bread pudding may remind you of the British bread and butter pudding with less butter.

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Brazilian fried bananas

Brazilian cook bananas in many ways although frying them in vegetable oil or butter is the probably the most popular. The bananas can be served just the way they come out of the pan as a side dish, as you would find in Cuba, or sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar for a sweet dessert.