Easy Greek Inspired Dinner Recipes

Angela Roberts — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:06:55 +0000

I grew up eating Greek food because my hometown was lucky enough to have many Greek owned restaurants. From diners to upscale, the food was delicious.

These easy Greek recipes have minimal ingredients and maximum taste.

Appetizer

Greek Olive Feta Salad – so easy, but so good to set out as a starter for company.

Lamb Feta Party Bites – Take a small square toasted bread with olive oil, a lamb and a square of feta.

Greek Chicken Recipes

All of these are made with an olive oil, lemon, honey marinade with oregano and fresh dill. The thighs and spatchcock chicken can be made on the grill or in the oven.

Lamb Recipes Greek Style

Greek Feta Stuffed Lamb Meatballs with Pistachio Mint Pesto – These are absolutely delicious.

Reverse Sear Lollypop Lamb Chops with Mint Pistou – If you haven’t tried the reverse sear method for grilling, you are in for a treat. Serve with these crispy potatoes.

Greek Style Flash Fried Cauliflower -Made with lemon, feta, almonds and kalamata olives, cauliflower is transformed into a delicious side dish that will disappear fast.

Feta Cheese

Feta cheese perks up so many dishes, and is often found in Greek food. It’s tangy, creamy and salty. In my opinion the best feta is 100% sheep’s milk imported from Greece. I don’t recommend buying pre-crumbed cheese, which often has other ingredients and no flavor.

Feta cheese is great crumbled on roasted vegetables, or even fruit like watermelon.

Kalamata Olives

Kalamata olives are rich in anti-oxidants and are considered to be anti-inflammatory.They can be added to salads, roasted veggies, roasted chicken dinners. Named after Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese, Greece, they bring a Greek profile to many dishes, especially salads, roasted vegetables.

Olive Oil and Honey

The combination of olive oil and honey go a long way. Try drizzling both on bread, cheese, and use both in salad dressings.

Lemon Honey Vinaigrette

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Cauliflower Broccoli Mash Using Frozen Veggies

Angela Roberts — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 22:14:39 +0000

By now in the low carb or big fat healthy yum world, you’ve heard of cauliflower mash, a great alternative to mashed potatoes. I posted a great recipe here, which is easy and understands the water content of cauliflower. This recipe, which includes broccoli, takes that to a whole new level, adding seriously healthy broccoli to the mix.

To make this Cauliflower Broccoli Mash even easier for you, there is no cutting, boiling, draining. This recipe uses the frozen organic veggie bags from Costco. If you don’t have access to that, you can purchase elsewhere.

Costco sells large bags of organic vegetables which contain smaller bags, making it very convenient. These bags of Organic Broccoli and Organic Cauliflower rice go right into the microwave. The cooked veggies then go into a super blender with some butter, salt, pepper and softened cream cheese (for smoothing).

Optionally, doctor up with feta cheese, olive oil drizzle, and fresh herbs such as parsley or dill. Would be great with these lamb recipes.

Why Add Broccoli to the Mash?

Broccoli adds a little more heft for those who think a cauliflower mash is too weepy.

How to Use Fresh Cauliflower in Recipe

If you want to use a whole non-frozen cauliflower head, follow the recipe here and add in cooked broccoli and re-blend.

As far as amounts, I used a bag of each.

Ingredients for Broccoli and Cauliflower Mash

Frozen Organic Cauliflower Rice
Frozen Organic Broccoli
4 tablespoons Cream Cheese
2 tablespoons butter
herbs: parsley, mint or dill
salt
pepper
Options: Pecorino Romano or Feta Cheese

Make Ahead Side

Cauliflower Broccoli Mash can be made ahead and reheated in the oven or microwave, so it’s perfect for dinner parties, holidays. There are times my husband is traveling and I eat it all week long with a protein side. It also makes great shepherd’s pie, using any left over meat.

More Cauliflower and Broccoli Recipes

Broccoli Cauliflower Mash

Using frozen organic veggies, broccoli Cauliflower Mash is the perfect low carb side.

Course Sides

Cuisine American

Keyword broccoli, cauliflower, low carb browines

Cook Time 7

Ingredients

1 bag frozen broccoli
1 bag frozen cauliflower rice or cauliflower
4 ounces cream cheese
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon Pecorino Romano optional
1 tablespoon olive oil optional
2 ounces feta cheese optional (see notes)

Instructions

Microwave frozen vegetables as directed on package.
Add to super blender (or Vitamix) with remaining ingredients.
Blend until you have consistency of mash, but not all the way to puree.
Serve with more butter or a drizzle of olive oil if desired.
Season more with salt as needed.

Notes

Option 1: Use butter and pecorino romano

Option 2: Drizzle olive oil, crumble feta cheese

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