Recipes with Feta cheese

Try to make a simple and flavorful dish for a weekday. This is pasta with baked feta and cherry tomatoes. This dish is perfect for a simple and quick dinner for the whole family. It is prepared incredibly quickly and even a beginner can easily make it without trouble. Cheese and tomatoes with spices make feta pasta incredibly tasty. The recipe requires minimal preparation. For cooking, you can use any type of pasta: fusilli, penne, farfalle. Also, you can use any spices you want. For example, dried oregano, thyme, or a mixture of Italian herbs.

A salad with beet and chicken is light and healthy but it’s so delicious that even those who hate “healthy” food will be jealous. Everyone knows the benefits of beets, which can be boiled or roasted.

Fresh, light and nutritious salad is perfect for any garnish. It perfectly combines with meat and fish. Carrot salad with raisins can be a separate dish if you want some light meal and have no time for cooking.

Need something a little extra special for dinner tonight? Something that is foolproof to make and that tastes delicious? These Stuffed Chicken Breasts make a the perfect dish and use rather simple and affordable ingredients. All you need to do is butterfly a chicken breast, flatten it, then stuff it with feta cheese and cooked spinach, forming a roll. Then you pour creamy tangy sauce over the chicken, put it into the oven, and 45 to 50 minutes later something wonderful comes out. And the leftover sauce in the pan is perfect for spooning over rice or steamed vegetables.

This healthy butternut squash mac and cheese is a great way to secretly add more vegetables into a classic dish! Butternut squash is an excellent source of Vitamin A, vital for healthy skin and eyes. It is also a good source of Vitamin C and fibre too, which makes it an wonderful food that should be included in your diet. If the idea of adding a bit of sweetness from butternut squash makes you a little skeptical, we encourage you to give it a try and discover yourself what a creamy and flavorful mac and cheese you will end up with! Plus, the butternut squash beautifully paints the entire dish in a splendid golden color! So your dish will not only be healthier but also prettier but all means! In this butternut squash mac and cheese recipe we made butternut puree from scratch, that is more time consuming that adding a pre-made puree. So if you don’t have a great deal of time to play in the kitchen, we recommend preparing the puree in advance and freezing it, or buying a ready-made one from the supermarket.

Looking for something filling and nutritious, but also light and delicious? Pumpkin and feta salad with bacon and grapefruit ticks all of those boxes! It can serve as an interesting side to pasta dishes, as well as become a king of the lunchtime on its own. Because the salad had feta and bacon in it, we advice not to season it with salt, unless you you prefer a strong salty taste in your meals. We also used olive oil in the recipe, but you are welcome to use the oil of your choice for this pumpkin and feta salad. The proportions of the ingredients are well suited for 2 full servings as a main dish, and it can serve 4 if pumpkin and feta salad is used as a side.

This healthy and colorful salad can be a perfect addition to meat dishes, and also serve as a nice meal on its own if you prefer to pursue a vegetarian lifestyle. Beet is well-known for its indispensable health benefits. Betacyanin, a colorful pigment in beet, is an antioxidant that can significantly help your liver get rid of toxins, and thus improve its main function to keep your body clean by absorbing all the harmful chemicals from your blood. Beet also contains betaine, a substance can be used to help with some forms of depression due to its ability to relax your mind and improve general sense of well being. For healthy reasons we prefer using homemade sauces and condiments to those bought in a supermarket. There is value in making something from scratch, and you can always control what comes in a recipe and what quality product comes out of it. We used homemade pickled red onions for this beet salad. We recommend marinating some onions at the same time as you start cooking beet, or even some time in advance, it can be perfectly stored in the fridge and used for other dishes. We know that a lot of people out there like beet but don’t like to bother with cooking it because the process seems time and energy consuming. If you are one of those people, we invite you to check out our *How to cook beet* (or Easy ways to cook beet). We hope you like this beet salad as much as we do, and will learn to love beet not only for its health benefits but also for its taste and color!

If you try to eat healthily and if you are thinking what else to include into your daily healthy menu, then this recipe is right for you! Roasted butternut squash salad is made with creamy roasted butternut squash, mixed salad greens, sweet dried cranberries, tangy and flavorful dressing and salty feta. It is full of tasty fall and summer flavors, and is very quick to make. Roasted Butternut Squash Salad not only a perfect fit into the festive family gathering, but it can also bring additional color to your monotonous weekdays! Just toss the ingredients together - and here you have a healthy and filling take-along lunch for any family member. It is so easy and so delicious that you will want to make it over and over again.