7 healthy side dish recipes

Recipes

• Warm Green Lentil Salad with Tuna

  The better the quality of olive oil you use for this warm, Mediterranean-style salad, the better the flavour will be. Olive...

• Spiced Brown Rice Pilau with Eggplant

  Indian spiced rice dishes make wonderfully appetizing vegetarian main courses. Unlike most other Indian dishes, rice...

• Spinach Raita

  Raita is best with full-fat Balkan-style yogurt, but you can use reduced fat (but not fat-free) yogurt.

• Grilled Whole Red Snapper with Green Salsa

  You can sometimes find fresh tomatillos, but if not, buy canned tomatillos in the Mexican or international food aisle of...

• Blanched Spring Greens

  Curly endive, escarole and dandelion greens are wonderful slightly bitter spring vegetables often given short shrift in...

• Calcium-Enriched Low-Fat Date and Bran Muffins

  These sweetly spiced muffins are low in fat and high in fibre and have the bonus of added calcium from the skim milk powder.

• Strawberry Rhubarb Jelly

  The delicate flavours of these two spring and early summer fruits blend beautifully in this naturally low-fat ruby-red...