25 high fiber dishes to make this summer
Eating enough fiber is good for your health in many ways, whether it’s keeping bones strong or supporting a healthy gut microbiome. Fortunately, you can take advantage of those benefits with these delicious side dishes because each serving contains at least 3 grams of fiber. Plus, they take advantage of delicious summer produce like tomatoes, corn, zucchini and more. Two options like our slow-roasted tomatoes or grilled corn salad with Chili-Miso Dressing and your favorite seasonal foods for a delicious and tasty fiber-rich meal.
Slow-roasted tomatoes
Slow-cooking ripe summer tomatoes in a low oven makes candies delicious. Turn to this recipe to stock up on summer’s bounty from your garden or farmers market; freezes well for up to 6 months. Add these delicious sandwiches; stir them into risotto; or chop them up and mix them with Kalamata olive oil, olive oil and fresh herbs to top with pita chips.
Escalivada (Smoked Slow Roasted Vegetables)
This vegan side dish is usually served at room temperature with grilled meat or fish, but feel free to double your portion and eat it as a vegan side dish with crusty bread for dipping with garlicky olive oil, full of flavor. The name of this combination of grilled vegetables comes from the Catalan escalivar, which means to cook with ashes, although many people these days use the oven or grill to char their veggies.
Grilled Corn Salad with Chili-Miso Dressing
Serve this salad with grilled steak, chicken or a firm white fish like halibut. You can also double the recipe and bring it to your next potluck. If you can find tatsoi, a green leafy Asian pepper, use it instead of the simple spinach. A sweet store-bought Thai chili sauce and umami-rich white miso make for a quick flavor boost in this easy summer salad.
Baked Eggplant Baby Agrodolce
In this vegetable dish, the Italian sauce agrodolce translates to sour (“agro”) and sweet (“dolce”). Here, the fried eggplant acts like a sponge, soaking up the sweet and sour sauce as it rests.
Roasted Green Beans with Mustard Vinaigrette & Hazelnuts
Our tips for this lively, mustardy side dish: Use a grill basket – which allows you to cook everything that could fall into the grill grate, no need for skewering.
Macaroni Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing
Give a classic pasta salad a hearty, more flavorful twist. This quick pasta dish calls for avocado to replace the mayonnaise, which makes it even tastier. Whole-wheat elbow macaroni and fresh greens round out this healthy pasta salad that you’ll be making all summer long.
Spiralized Beet Salad
Impress your guests with this delicious beet salad that is quick and easy to make. Because the beets are thinned by the spiralizer, you don’t have to worry about cooking or cutting the vegetables carefully. Regular red beets look good, but colorful Chioggia beets, golden beets or a combination of any of the three can make the presentation even better. .
Sweet Fresh Corn Salad
We love fresh summer corn when it’s in season, but frozen corn makes a great year-round substitute for this quick and easy dish.
Broccoli with Balsamic Mushrooms
Just a touch of butter adds silkiness to the balsamic sauce dressed with broccoli and meaty mushrooms in this easy broccoli recipe.
Herbed tomato gratin
Vegetable gratin recipes usually have a light bread or crouton topping. But summer tomatoes are too good to hide, so we put bread cubes under them. Plus, the bread soaks up all the goodness of the sweet tomato. If you can’t find marjoram, fresh basil or oregano make a good substitute.
Bean Salad with Basil Vinaigrette
Channel your inner foodie as you arrange the beans and greens for this bean salad recipe. Serve at a potluck or a nice salad at brunch along with grilled chicken, scallops or fish.
Roasted Maple-Thyme Carrots
Amp up any carrot side dish with this Maple-Thyme Roasted Baby Carrot recipe. Consider saving a portion of this recipe and adding it to our Arugula Salad with Carrots and Goat Cheese recipe.
Broccoli, Chickpea and Pomegranate Salad
Simple steps give this broccoli salad recipe unmistakable flavor: soaking the onion to soften its bite and drying the cumin to add flavor. Serve with grilled chicken, pork or fish.
Italian white bean salad
This Italian white bean salad is healthy and delicious. The capers and rosemary-lemon dressing add a wonderful flavor to the cannellini beans and diced tomatoes.
Parsley Tabbouleh
Photographer: Rachel Marek, Food Stylist: Holly Dresman
This tart, parsley-dominated recipe makes a delicious side dish at any gathering. The recipe can be doubled to feed a crowd. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
Strawberry-Beet Salad
This delicious summer strawberry and beet salad is perfect for a picnic or lunch on the go – just pack the dressing aside!
Summer Vegetable Salad with Tomato Vinaigrette and Anchovy Breadcrumbs
Using a variety of vegetables gives this simple summer salad an interesting combination of flavors. Anchovy in breadcrumbs and sun-dried tomatoes in a vinaigrette is subtle, but the key is to add umami.
Pineapple and Avocado Salad
This refreshing, easy Cuban salad recipe captures the flavors of the tropics. Serve with chicken or pork, as well as rice and beans.
Snap Pea Salad with Lemon and Feta
Fresh greens, lemony vinaigrette, briny feta, and sweet radishes and pea pods all come together in this side salad that you’ll want at every meal. We like Meyer Lemons in this salad, but any variety will do.
Loaded Potato Nacho Fries
Load up on vitamin A and fiber when you swap tortilla chips for potatoes in this healthy recipe. Serve as an appetizer at your next party or turn it into dinner by adding chicken, tofu, shrimp or more beans for protein.
Shaved Summer Squash Salad with Ricotta Salad and Roasted Fennel
Although spinach is a great leafy substitute for sorrel in this salad, Ben Bebenroth, chef and owner of Cleveland’s farm-to-table Spice Catering, sometimes uses thinly sliced green rhubarb to mimic the flavor. of sorrel in a summer squash salad.
Tropical cucumber salad
Combine cucumber, avocado and mango in a delicious salty dressing for a taste of the tropics.
Grilled Asparagus Parmesan
Roasted asparagus gets a light and sweet garnish of lightly grated Parmesan cheese and a little lemon in this easy baked dish.
Fresh fruit salad
This refreshing and easy fruit salad recipe will be a favorite at any potluck or cookout. And if you like a sweet fruit salad or a fruit salad with yogurt, we cover you with a tangy dressing of lime yogurt to serve on the side – instead of making a fruit salad with whipped cream. This is a colorful and healthy fruit salad recipe for all occasions.
Spinach Salad with Ginger-Soy Dressing
This spinach salad tossed with a spunky ginger dressing was inspired by the iceberg salads served at Japanese steakhouses across the U.S. Add shrimp for a light lunch or dinner.
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