
This pasta salad is such a simple dish that it barely needs a recipe; that’s part of the reason I love to make it! The second reason is that it gets some nice veggies into the kids’ diet without any fuss - they love pasta in every form.

Stuffed Bhindi / Stuffed Okra is a delicious vegetable side dish where Okra is stuffed with spices and cooked in open pan .

Use with idli, dosa or add to side dish recipes or add chopped onions and grind to make a chutney.

Mushroom Garlic Quinoa is loaded with lots of sauteed garlic, mushrooms, and healthy quinoa! It makes an amazing side dish or excellent, warm & hearty vegetarian meal!

These fluffy slow cooker sweet potatoes are a perfect make-ahead side dish OR main course! You can serve them as they are for an easy side dish, or load them up with the toppings of your choice to transform them into a healthy meal (check out the notes.

Adapted from Fresh Flavors for the Slow Cooker, by Nicki Sizemore (Storey Publishing, 2019).

Spaghetti squash has a rather high water content and sometimes oozes a little extra liquid when it is served.