Healthy Mediterranean Diet Recipes

(This delicious Turkey and Black Bean Mexican Cabbage Bowl with Avocado Salsa is today's pick for the month of Daily Phase One Recipes, and this recipe has the kind of fresh flavors I never get tired of!  You can see all the Daily Phase One Recipes from the month by clicking that link.  Check after the recipe for Phase One Flashbacks from this day in 2012 and 2013.)

After I posted the recipe for Sriracha Beef Cabbage Bowl that was the brilliant idea of my friend Jeanne, and it quickly become one of my favorites.  And you know how my brain takes a good recipe idea and spins it off into another fun variation, so now I've taken the basic idea of a bowl that starts with Spicy Mexican Slaw and made a version with Mexican flavors.  This Turkey and Black Bean Mexican Cabbage Bowl with Avocado Salsa features finely diced fresh Poblano chile pepper in the cabbage slaw and the salsa, and everything about this combination is amazingly flavorful.  Cabbage is one of the healthiest vegetables you can eat, and this recipe might become your favorite new way to get more cabbage into your diet!

Everyone who loves crunchy sweet raw red cabbage, please raise your hand.  (Kalyn has both hands raised.)  If you're not raising your hand I hope you'll consider making this Vegan Red Cabbage Bowl using crisp lettuce in place of the cabbage because I loved how the flavors combined  in this recipe, and I'd hate for any cabbage-avoiders to miss out on the other good things here.  Two things that ramp up the flavor are tossing the tofu cubes with a soy-sesame-ginger marinade before they're baked, and a hint of Sriracha in the peanut butter flavored sauce to give it just the right amount of spicy kick.  I made this a couple of times and in the final version I scattered the tofu cubes over the salad like croutons before I drizzled the sauce over, and I thought that was the perfect finishing touch.

This new Meatless Monday recipe is also today's pick for the month of  Daily Phase One Recipes, and this delicious Vegan Spaghetti Squash and Black Bean Mexican Bowl is especially for all the vegetarians doing Phase One this month.  I do agree that Phase One is more challenging when you're not eating meat, but this recipe is a close cousin to the Greek Salad Spaghetti Squash Bowl I made during the summer, and there are quite a few more Phase One options if you sort recipes to see the Meatless category.  Jake and I both thought this was amazing, especially with a double dose of the Green Tabasco Sauce we're both so fond of!

(You can see all the Phase One Recipes from the month by clicking Daily Phase One Recipes.  Check after the recipe for Phase One Flashbacks from this day in 2012 and 2013.)