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Side Dishes (Gluten-Free)

Category: Side Dishes (Gluten-Free)

deviled eggs next to sandwich

57 Trim Healthy Mama Potluck Dishes With No Funky Ingredients

Array of beautiful tomatoes, some whole, some sliced, in a variety of different colors: red, yellow, green, and orange.

50+ Tomato Recipes (from breakfast to dinner)

Fermented Tex-Mex Salsa | Having lived in Texas all my life, I think it’s safe to say that I know a thing or two about really good Tex-Mex salsa. I’ve spent the last two decades perfecting my salsa recipe, and several years ago, I began lacto-fermenting it. It’s my most-requested recipe! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Fermented Tex-Mex Salsa

asparagus cooked in the Instant Pot

100+ Amazing, Easy & Healthy Pressure Cooker Recipes (Instant Pot, too!)

10 Easy Ways to Pack More Fermented Foods in Your Child's Lunch | Fermented foods pack a nutritional punch for any meal. But, what to pack and how to provide variety? Here's how to make the most of your child's school lunch with fermented foods -- without adding lots of prep time. | GNOWFGLINS.com

10 Easy Ways to Pack More Fermented Foods in Your Child’s Lunch

Traditional foods and Trim Healthy Mama... Can the 2 go hand-in-hand? Yes! Because E meals and snacks with traditional foods are the hardest to find, here's a boat load of ideas -- so you don't have to resort to low-fat, store-bought foods to fill in the gaps.

47 Trim Healthy Mama E Meals & Snacks With Traditional Foods

My family are huge fans of my homemade salsa, bean dip, and pesto -- which are all lacto-fermented. As I put together this round-up of 50 amazingly healthy and colorful fermented salsas, dips, and spreads, my eyes were opened to all the ways I can add even more beneficial bacteria into our foods... and probably without anyone noticing. ;)

50 Fermented Salsas, Dips, and Spreads

I've taken this salad to countless potlucks, and also served it many times when we have guests for a meal. It's super easy and tasty. Apple Salad 6 to 8 apples, cleaned and with the peel left on (Pink Lady apples are delicious!) 1/4 cup lemon juice good water 1/4 cup raw honey, or to... [by Wardee Harmon]

Honey-Sweetened Cinnamon Apple Salad

A chutney is the perfect way to get started with fermenting because it's easy to make and delicious. To help you dive in -- and use up the fruits you're likely bringing in by the boxload or bucketful -- we pulled together this collection of lacto-fermented fruit and chutney recipes. Enjoy!

25 Fermented Fruit & Chutney Recipes

Radishes pickling in quart-sized Mason jars along with other red onion slices.

How To Make Lacto-Fermented Radishes

Scooping up a bite of homemade sauerkraut out of a small dish.

Homemade Sauerkraut In A Stoneware Crock

Middle Eastern Kefir Cheese Balls {with free video!} | In today's free video and recipe, I show you a traditional Middle Eastern method of preserving yogurt cheese that requires no refrigeration. My grandmother and namesake, Tata Wardee, who has passed away, always had jars full of yogurt cheese balls available to add to our plates at breakfast, lunch and dinner! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Middle Eastern Kefir Cheese Balls {with free video!}

Over 100 people asked me to share my recipe for homemade Trim Healthy Mama-friendly cottage cheese! (Pssst! It's *not really* cottage cheese!) It's wayyyyy easier than traditional homemade cottage cheese and wayyyyy cheaper than the best cultured store-bought cottage cheese! Goes great with either S or E meals and snacks!

Trim Healthy Mama Fuel Pull Cottage Cheese {homemade}

A quart mason jar with lid filled with kimchi sitting on a butcher block counter.

Homemade Kimchi: An Easy Korean Sauerkraut Recipe

Simple, No-Pound Kraut | People used to pound cabbage to get it good and juicy for fermentation. Pounding isn't necessary when you let salt do the work instead! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Simple, No-Pound Sauerkraut

Overhead shot of turnips, beets, and golden beets in quart- and pint-sized glass jars filled with brine, ready to be fermented.

Lacto-Fermented Turnips & Beets

Are you avoiding white potatoes? Will you miss the potato casseroles that are so typical of holiday meals? Try this versatile, tried-and-true family recipe!

Easy Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole

cauliflower potato salad sprinkled with chives in a blue ceramic dish

Probiotic Cauliflower Potato Salad (Low Carb, THM:S, Egg-Free)

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