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14 nutritious Mediterranean-inspired recipes to cook this week

Load up on nutrient-rich produce, fish and healthy fats with a week’s worth of Mediterranean recipes inspired by the cooking of Greece, Italy, Spain and beyond.

15 recipes
Mediterranean baked eggplant.
EASY

RecipeTin’s seven-ingredient Mediterranean baked eggplant

  • 1-2 hrs
  • RecipeTin Eats
Salmon and sweet potato croquettes.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s salmon and sweet potato croquettes recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
No soggy bottom: Spanakopita with puff pastry and haloumi.

Katrina Meynink’s haloumi spanakopita

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
RecipeTin Eats’ goat’s cheese risoni.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ easy Mediterranean risoni with goat’s cheese

  • < 30 mins
  • RecipeTin Eats

Meat-free Med-inspired cauliflower fritters with yoghurt sauce

  • Meni Valle
This quick and easy-to-prepare meal is perfect for dinner after work or when unexpected guests drop by.

Spanish-inspired chicken with rice and chorizo

  • Rena Patten
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One-pan fish with cherry tomatoes, olives and cannellini beans

  • Sarah Pound
Italy with a detour to Spain: Chicken amatriciana one-tray wonder with chorizo and potatoes.
EASY

Katrina Meynink’s chicken amatriciana traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Mediterranean-inspired pot-roasted chicken.
EASY

Karen Martini’s pot-roasted chicken with tomatoes and olives

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Souvlaki-style lamb chops.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s souvlaki-style lamb chops

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Red rice with chicken and spinach

Greek red rice with chicken and spinach from the Yiayia Next Door

  • Daniel and Luke Mancuso
Effortlessly easy: Kolokithokeftethes (zucchini fritters).

Kolokithokeftethes (zucchini fritters) from a Greek family kitchen

  • Fofi Gourlas
Moussaka meets shepherd's pie.

Jill Duplex’s Greek baked lamb and rice with yoghurt

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Roast salmon with lemony salsa verde and crispy capers.

Katrina Meynink's roast salmon with lemony salsa verde

  • Katrina Meynink
This is an edited extract from Ikaria: Food and Life in the Blue Zone by Mene Valle, published by Hardie Grant Books RRP $45. Photography by Lean Timms. Lahanika me avga (baked vegetables with eggs) Prasino kolaro me patates (collard greens with potatoes) Psita revithia (baked chickpeas) Portokalopita (orange pie with filo and syrup) Single use only

Portokalopita (orange pie with filo and syrup) from the Greek island of Ikaria

  • Meni Valle

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