Mediterranean Cuisine
Olive oil, vegetables, fish and legumes. The healthiest diet in the world.
Baked Salmon with Lemon
Fresh salmon baked with dill, lemon, and garlic. The simplest and healthiest recipe to prepare fish: tender, juicy, and full of omega-3. Ready in 15 minutes with minimal cleanup afterwards.
Valencian Paella
Valencian paella is the iconic dish of the Spanish Levant. Cooked in a wide iron pan over open fire, it combines bomba rice with chicken, rabbit, flat green beans, garrofón, and saffron threads that turn the rice a deep golden hue. The finishing touch is the socarrat — a lightly toasted crust that forms on the pan's base and is considered the mark of a perfect paella.
Avocado Toast with Poached Egg
Avocado toast with poached egg brings together the best of modern brunch in a quick, nutritious plate: toasted sourdough bread, avocado mashed with lemon juice and flaky salt, and a poached egg with a runny yolk made in simmering water with a dash of vinegar. Smoked paprika and chia seeds finish the dish. Ready in fifteen minutes, it works equally well for breakfast, a mid-morning snack, or a weekend brunch.
Warm Lentil Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette
The warm brown lentils absorb the mustard vinaigrette like a sponge, creating a flavorful salad with contrasting textures: creamy lentils, crunchy cucumber, and fresh tomato.
Salmon Tartare with Avocado
Salmon tartare with avocado borrows from Japanese knife technique and adapts it to modern bistro cooking: sashimi-grade salmon hand-cut into small cubes, dressed with sesame oil, soy sauce and chives, then set over a base of creamy avocado. Capers and finely minced shallot add acidity and bite. The result is a fresh, elegant dish that comes together in minutes — as long as the salmon is genuinely good.
Sea Bream Baked in Salt with Mediterranean Herbs
Salt-baked sea bream is the simplest way to get perfectly juicy fish: a crust of coarse sea salt mixed with egg white seals in the steam, keeping the bream cooking in its own juices. Mediterranean herbs — thyme, rosemary, fennel — perfume the flesh without masking its sea flavor. The fish doesn't taste salty; the salt encases it, it doesn't penetrate.
Sea Bass Baked in Salt
This ancient cooking technique in salt creates a steam chamber that maintains all the juiciness and nutrients of the fish. The result is an incredibly tender and flavorful sea bass without a drop of oil.
Roasted Vegetables with Feta Cheese
Roasted vegetables with feta is one of the most characteristic preparations of Greek cooking: peppers, aubergine, tomatoes and red onion roasted until caramelised, with a block of Greek feta in the centre that softens and melts over everything. Kalamata olives and dried Mediterranean herbs complete the dish. It holds its own as a light dinner and easily upstages whatever it is supposed to accompany.
Baked Salmon with Lemon and Herbs
Baked salmon with lemon and herbs is a clean, bright Mediterranean recipe: fresh fillets layered with dill, thyme, sliced garlic, and capers, drizzled with olive oil and lemon juice before roasting. In under half an hour you have moist, flaky fish that fills the kitchen with the scents of the Mediterranean coastline. An effortless midweek dinner.
Seasonal Roasted Vegetables in Airfryer
Red pepper, courgette, aubergine, and red onion roasted in the air fryer: seasonal vegetables come out tender inside with caramelized edges in just 22 minutes, no oven preheating needed. A drizzle of olive oil, oregano, and paprika is all it takes. Works as a side dish or as the base for escalivada, wraps, or salads.
Shakshuka
Shakshuka is the Mediterranean basin's quickest one-pan meal: eggs poached directly in a thick sauce of tomato, red pepper, onion and garlic spiced with harissa and cumin. The sauce is built in the same pan it's served in, the eggs cooked lid-on until the whites set but the yolk stays runny, pita bread doing the work of mopping everything up. One pan, twenty minutes, nothing wasted.
Lemon and Garlic Chicken in Airfryer
Chicken thighs marinated in lemon juice and zest, garlic and Mediterranean herbs, then cooked in the air fryer until the skin is golden and crisp and the meat stays juicy inside. The air fryer delivers oven-roasted results in half the time, with no preheating and minimal washing up. Simple, bright and full of flavour.
Quinoa Bowl with Roasted Vegetables
A hearty plant-based bowl built around Andean quinoa, oven-roasted sweet potato, red pepper and broccoli, creamy avocado, and crispy chickpeas. A lime-tahini dressing ties everything together with brightness and body. High in plant protein and fiber, this is a complete meal that keeps you full without feeling heavy.
Baked Chicken with Lemon and Garlic
Lemon and garlic roast chicken is one of the simplest and most satisfying dishes in Mediterranean cooking. Chicken pieces are marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, generous garlic, and fresh herbs, then roasted at high heat until the skin is crisp and the meat stays juicy. The pan juices reduce into a natural sauce that needs nothing else.
Mediterranean Cuisine: cooking guide
The Mediterranean diet is the most studied and recommended in the world for its cardiovascular benefits and longevity. Extra virgin olive oil, oily fish, legumes, seasonal vegetables and wine in moderation. Mediterranean recipes that taste great and are a genuine investment in your long-term health.