side dish
Recipes good to serve as side dish to the main course.
Injera, flat bread from Ethiopia
Injera bread is made from three simple ingredients: teff flour, water, and salt. If you are familiar with making crepes or pancakes, you should not have any trouble to prepare it. You can use a mixture of teff flour and whole wheat or all purpose flour. Injera is usually served with hot food on top. Wrap the injera around the food, chop it off, and eat it.
Ethiopian alecha
This is a mildly spiced vegetable bowl Ethiopians enjoy in days when they cannot eat meat.
Healthy risotto with peas
Serve risotto with peas as a side dish to all sorts of main courses, from grilled chicken or other lean meat to steamed white fish.
Easy menestra
This simple recipe can be adapted for speed cooking by using prepared or frozen vegetables. Good quality, fresh vegetables make this recipe really special, but frozen vegetables are better than no vegetables.
Black bean salsa
A high fiber option for a salsa or dip. This recipe yields 8 to 10 servings. A serving is 1/3 cup.
Jiao zi
Jiao Zi (or Gow Gee, in the Mandarin dialect) is a concoction made of dough stuffed with meat and/or vegetables. It is often served as part of dim sum. Proper preparation takes a bit of time and effort. But the results, when done correctly, are well worth it. Discover how to make jiao zi.
Yorkshire pudding
Yorkshire pudding is usually seen accompanying a roast, but it can also be served with a sauce as an appetizer, or after the main course, with a syrup, as a dessert of sorts.
Brazilian fried bananas
Brazilian cook bananas in many ways although frying them in vegetable oil or butter is the probably the most popular. The bananas can be served just the way they come out of the pan as a side dish, as you would find in Cuba, or sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar for a sweet dessert.
French green salad
A French garlic vinaigrette is an ideal dressing for a green leaf salad.
Sweet corn cake
Serve this sweet corn cake as a Mexican side dish.