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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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More Spring Dinner Recipes

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  • Black Mussels in Fermented Lemon Butter Broth
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Kaitlynn is a Food Microbiologist and FSPCA-certified fermentation specialist. An alumna of the LSU College of Science, she combines her academic background in microbiology with her Cajun heritage to create safe and delicious recipes.
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New recipes blooming on the blog this spring! 🍓✨🌸 New recipes blooming on the blog this spring! 🍓✨🌸 I’m feeling like it’s going to be a pasta salad summer ☀️ all these brand new probiotic salad dressing recipes and pasta salad recipes are on our website, totally free. Recipe index is in my bio! 
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Probiotic salad dressing? Yes plz! Homemade sala Probiotic salad dressing? Yes plz! 

Homemade salad dressing is the best way to use homemade vinegar and left over fermented vegetable brine! I’ve been adding many new salad dressing recipes to our blog this spring, and I hope you give them a try! 

Get my strawberry pepper jelly vinaigrette recipe and my spring cucumber strawberry pasta salad recipe FOR FREE on my blog. #strawberry #salad
I may have the egg ick lol. So I’m officially in m I may have the egg ick lol. So I’m officially in my overnight oats era. Get this ridiculously easy recipe for my strawberry milk kefir overnight oats on my blog! As always my recipes are totally free, and you can find them all on https://cultured.guru
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.

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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. 🤗

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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
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