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Spring Dinner Ideas: 10 Healthy & Easy Spring Dinner Recipes

Looking for Spring dinner recipes that are easy and healthy? You’ll love these 10 spring dinner ideas that are light, fresh, and perfect for spring parties.

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Spring Dinner Ideas: 10 Healthy & Easy Spring Dinner Recipes

Looking for Spring dinner recipes that are easy and healthy? You’ll love these 10 spring dinner ideas that are light, fresh, and perfect for spring parties.

10 Spring Dinner Ideas

Honey Butter Blackened Scallops with Couscous Salad

Honey butter blackened scallops are the best scallops you’ll ever have! Pair with cucumber and fermented celery couscous salad for the perfect meal.

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Sauerkraut Arugula Salad with Goat Cheese and Berries

Made with fresh arugula, berries, goat cheese, pistachios, and honey mustard dressing, this sauerkraut arugula salad is the most delicious meal on warm days.

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Tandoori Tofu in Spicy Yogurt Sauce with Coconut Rice

Inspired by tandoori chicken, this tandoori tofu is the most flavorful tofu recipe. Serve this delicious, spicy tofu with coconut rice and sourdough naan.

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Lamb Tacos with Fermented Lemon Chermoula and Feta

These are the most delicious lamb tacos made with fresh sourdough tortillas, marinated lamb, and fermented lemon chermoula.

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Chicken Zucchini Meatballs with Fermented Zucchini and Feta

Chicken zucchini meatballs are a delicious twist on classic chicken meatballs. The rich flavors of the fermented zucchini and feta pair perfectly with chicken.

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Caramelized Zucchini Pasta with Fermented Zucchini and Mushrooms

Try this caramelized zucchini pasta with fermented zucchini and mushrooms for an easy but fancy dinner that comes together in just 30 minutes. Pair zucchini mushroom pasta with shrimp or chicken for a delicious meal.

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Mango Shrimp Ceviche with Fermented Lemon

It’s bright and fresh; full of zesty lime, fragrant fermented lemon, spicy fermented jalapeno, buttery avocado, herbaceous cilantro, and juicy mango. Enjoy this Mexican inspired mango shrimp ceviche with potato chips and cold white wine for a perfect hot summer meal.

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Easy Vegan Thai Basil Tempeh Rice Bowls

This Thai Basil Tempeh is quick, easy to make, healthy and perfect for a delicious vegan meal! Serve it up with some rice and your favorite steamed veggies!

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Smoked Salmon Carpaccio with Miso and Crispy Fermented Lemon

Perfect for spring, smoked salmon carpaccio is great as an appetizer or a light meal on a hot day. You’ll love the miso dressing and crispy fermented lemon!

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Easy Greek Meatballs with Tzatziki Sauce Dressing

Greek meatballs only take 20 minutes to prepare and 30 minutes to cook and pair perfectly with freshly cooked rice, tzatziki sauce dressing, and vegetables.

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I give my water kefir grains some honey or molasse I give my water kefir grains some honey or molasses, a teeny bit of salt, and let them sit around in primary ferment for an extra long time!

Why? Because the microbes that build the grains like it. So the grains get big and strong. 

This is a little tidbit from what I teach in the water kefir lesson in our Fermented Drinks Semester online course! (Surprise treat for anyone who reads this caption: use code SPRING for 40% off our online courses)

I also share my water kefir recipes FOR FREE just ✨GOOGLE✨ “cultured guru water kefir” and you’ll see my full recipe with the perfect sugar ratios for growing, feeding and maintain water kefir grains.

#waterkefir #fermentation
Sourdough + cottage cheese banana bread 🍌 It’s go Sourdough + cottage cheese banana bread 🍌

It’s got 11 grams of protein per slice and can be baked immediately or fermented overnight for better digestibility. 🤗

Get the recipe on my blog! Link is in my bio!
#bananabread
Gosh I hope I pronounced Giardiniera correctly. 🤗 Gosh I hope I pronounced Giardiniera correctly. 🤗 

This jar I made was in my fridge for over six months, and it was time to do something with it. When I don’t know what to do with a ferment, pasta salad is usually the answer!

Get the recipe from the link in my bio! #pasta #salad
Healthy poop potion? I really do think my gut is Healthy poop potion?

I really do think my gut is loving this sauerkraut because of the celeriac (celery root), and I don’t have a science based reason for why. I saw this celery root in the store and had a gut feeling that I should make sauerkraut with it, and that’s how we got here. I guess my microbiome knew what it wanted!

Type “root vegetable sauerkraut -ai” into google and you’ll see my recipe! It’s also on my website homepage, also linked in my bio, and if you’re seeing this on Facebook, link is in the comments. Enjoy!  #sauerkraut
A lot of people think vinegar kills all microbes b A lot of people think vinegar kills all microbes because shelf stable pickles do not contain microbes. But with shelf stable pickles, it’s the pasteurization/sterilization via hot water bath or pressure canning that makes shelf stable pickles free of microbes.

Hot hot hot acid in a pressurized environment does kill, well…most microbes. 

Think about “refrigerator pickle” recipes, though. They need to be stored in the refrigerator because vinegar alone doesn’t stop fermentation.

Fridge pickles are made without pasteurization/sterilization (canning) so they will wild ferment without refrigeration, and not necessarily in a good way because there’s not enough salt. 

All vinegar is made via fermentation too, and vinegar fermentation involves acetic acid bacteria, but also a ton of LAB, mainly Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, and Leuconostoc (the same genera you’d find in fermented veg.)  I linked a reference paper in my fermented mushroom recipe blog, so you all can read about the LAB involved in vinegar fermentation. 

Try 🍄‍🟫googlin’🍄‍🟫“fermented mushrooms” and you’ll see my recipe, it’s the first result (usually) 🤗

#mushrooms #fermentation
I will not ever wild lacto ferment just beets agai I will not ever wild lacto ferment just beets again lol. Mixing with cabbage for beet sauerkraut is the best though! 

“Lacto fermented beets” was the first ferment I tried to make after learning sauerkraut in college. My best friend Sidney came over and we used these gorgeous beets from the farmers market, with 2.5% salt, and some spices. Well, it ended up tasting like beet moonshine and it was just… not good.

But it was a conduit for learning. Those beets were my first lesson in how different sugars and growth in the rhizosphere vs the phyllosphere influences fermentation. 

Cabbage and the cabbage microbiome offer a lot to balance out beets in fermentation, and I think mixing into a sauerkraut is the only way to go for lacto fermenting beets! 

Try googlin’ “beet and red cabbage sauerkraut” and you’ll see my recipe, I’m Cultured Guru.
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