Diana's Healthful Recipes

Diana Mirkin has developed hundreds of tasty, easy recipes based on Dr. Mirkin's healthful eating guidelines. They feature whole grains, vegetables, beans and fruits, flavored with lots of interesting seasonings.

Vegetarian Main Dishes
Main Dishes with Seafood
Side Dishes
Soups
Salads
Desserts
Appetizers, dips and miscellaneous recipes
Basic recipes, instructions and guidelines

Vegetarian Main Dishes

Algerian Vegetable Casserole
Any Vegetable Curry
Basque Beans
Black Beans
Bright Yellow Dal
Butternut Squash-Fruit Casserole
Cajun Lentils & Zucchini
Castaway Stew
Chafing Dish Chili
Chuckwagon Beans
Creole Sauce for Whole Grains
Easy Veggie Burger Chili
Extra Quick Chili
Fastest Beans and Rice
Firehouse Chili (with oatmeal)
Gabe's Famous Bean-Eggplant-Tomato Casserole (quick version)
Green Bean-Potato Curry
Grecian Garbanzo Stew
Harlan's Dad's Chili
Marge's Lentil Sauce for Whole Grains
Mexican Vegetable Stew
Michael's Eggplant Sauce for Whole Grains
Mushroom Mix Curry
Pepper-Potato Casserole
Pink Beans and Brown Rice
Portobello Mushroom Stew
Quick Moroccan Vegetable Stew
Quinoa with Eggplant
Roasted Veggie Bean Pot
Red Pepper Stew
Roumanian Crock Pot Stew
Savoy Cabbage with Lentils
Shiro Wot (African Vegetable Stew)
Smoky Bean Pot
Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai
Spaghetti Squash with Ratatouille Sauce
Speedy Creole Bean Stew
Split Pea and Barley Stew
Squash Chili
Summer Couscous
Summer Vegetable Curry
Summer Veggies and Beans
Sweet Potato Curry
Syrian Egg-Tomato Stew
Tagine with Pumpkin and Vegetables
Tofu Fried Rice
Tropical Wild Rice Medley
Veggie Rice

Main Dishes with Seafood

Baked Fish with Portobello Mushrooms
Cajun Fish Fillets
Catfish Gumbo
Cioppino
Clam and Mushroom Sauce for Whole Grains
Kejenou (African Seafood Stew)
Louisiana Oysters and Shrimp
Mediterranean Clams and Beans
Mediterranean Seafood Stew
Mussels with Tomatoes and Basil
One-Arm Seafood Chili
Oyster Stew
Paella (Spanish Seafood Stew)
Pineapple-Shrimp Grains
Seafood Kabobs
Seafood Spanish Rice
Seafood "Stir Fry"
Shellfish Creole
Quick Shrimp Curry
Shrimp Jambalaya
Southwest Paella
West African Seafood Stew
Wild Rice-Seafood Medley

Side Dishes

Baked Sweet Potatoes and Onions
Jollof Rice
Kaarin's Christmas Cranberry Curry
Kamut Biryani
Mediterranean Clams and Beans
New World Ratatouille
Quinoa-Mushroom Pilaf
Ratatouille with Baby Potatoes
Spanish Rice
Stewed Root Veggies with Cranberries
Wild Rice with Dried Cherries

Soups

Artichoke-Chick Pea Soup
Authentic Maryland Crab Soup
Black Bean Gazpacho
Canary Island Soup Pot
Chick Pea Gumbo
Cold Red Pepper Soup
Corn-off-the-Cob Chowder
Creamy Asparagus Soup
Creamy Carrot Soup
Cuban Corn Chowder
Curried Broccoli Soup
Double Mushroom Soup
Easy Split Pea Soup
Fall Minestrone
Fall Soba Soup
French Lentil Soup
Gazpacho I
Gazpacho II
Golden Autumn Soup
Golden Lentil Soup
Green Minestrone
Green Pea Soup
Harira
Hot and Sour Fish Soup
Incredible Creamy Clam Chowder
Italian Lentil Soup
Juliet's Bean and Corn Soup
Lebanese Soup
Lemony Lentil Soup
Lentil-Carrot Soup
Lima Bean Soup
Manhattan Clam Chowder with Barley
Minestrone
Moroccan Chickpea and Barley Soup
Mulligatawny Soup
Orange Lentil-Root Veggie Soup
Quick and Easy Chick Pea Soup
Peachy Thai Soup
Popeye's Special
Portuguese Potato-Garlic Soup
Quinoa Soup
Red Pepper Soup
Roasted Veggie Soup
Seafood Sausage Soup
Shrimp Confetti Chowder
Soupy Golden Dal
Spaghetti Squash Soup
Spaghetti Squash Soup with Artichokes
Spicy Garden Pea Soup
Sweet Potato Bisque
Thai Flavors Salmon Soup
Three Sisters Soup
Turkish Three-Bean Soup
Vietnamese Fisherman's Soup I
Vietnamese Fisherman's Soup II

Salads

Artichoke-Wild Rice Salad
Asparagus-Shrimp Salad
Black Bean Jumble Salad
California Tuna Salad
Caesar Salad with Tofu Dressing
Clementine-Black Bean Salad
Clementine-Quinoa Salad
Clementine-Wild Rice Salad
Confetti Salad
Cranberry-Wild Rice Salad
Cuban Mango Salad
Curried Fruit Salad
Fennel Salad with Clementines
Fruity-Nutty Salad
Fruity Seafood Salad
Gabe's Favorite Potato Salad
Green Bean-Potato Salad
Hawaiian Slaw
Island Barley Salad
Kamut-Lentil Salad
Kasha Salad
Lentil Tabbouleh Salad
Mediterranean Salad
Mexican Shrimp Salad
Minnesota Salad
Mix & Match Salads
Mother's Spinach Salad
New Potato Salad
Quinoa Salad with Spinach and Melon
Quinoa Tabbouleh
Salad Starter
Salade Nicoise
Salmon and White Bean Salad
Seafood Tossed Salad
Shrimp Curry Salad
Southwestern Bean Salad
Spicy Crab Salad
Spinach Salad with Clementines
Summer Barley-Bean Salad
Sushi Salad
Sweet Potato-Cranberry Salad
Sweet Potato Salad with Olives
Sweet Potato Salad with Pineapple
Tabbouleh
Tofu Caesar Salad Dressing
Tomatoes with Basil
Tomatoes with Cucumber and Onion
Tomato-Mint Salad
Tomatoes with Pepper Salsa
Tossed Seafood Salad
Tropical Shrimp Salad
Two-Bean Cabbage Slaw
Warm Kidney Bean Salad
Wild Rice Fruit Salad

Desserts

Banana Rice Pudding
Fall Fruit Curry
Fresh Fruit Bowl
Fruity Pebbles
Gingered Fruit Compote
Hawaiian Smoothie
My Favorite Fruity Rice Pudding
Oatmeal Bars
Ruth's Quickest Rice Pudding Yet
Suzanne's Mango-Pumpkin Oatmeal Bars
Trail Mix Bars

Appetizers, snacks and miscellaneous recipes

Alan's Faux Mueslix
Eggplant Caviar
Fresh Salsa
Guacamole
Harissa (Moroccan-Style Hot Spice Blend)
Hummus
Hummus & Ful
Morning Mush
Moroccan Onion Relish
Mushroom Nibbles
Peach Chutney
Pineapple Chutney
Porcupines
Salmon Mousse
Spicy Peanut Dip
Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Tex-Mex Bean Dip
Tri-Color Salsa or Dip
Vera Mirkin's No-Liver Chopped Liver
Zippy Black Bean Dip

Basic Recipes, Instructions and Guidelines

Introduction to Diana's Recipes
Dr. Mirkin's healthy eating guidelines
Diana's Spice Blends
Basic Instructions for Cooking Whole Grains
Bouillon and Stock
Eggplant in the Microwave
How to De-gas Beans
The SHOW ME! Diet
What Makes a Healthful Recipe?
Basic Barley
Basic Brown Rice
Basic Kasha (Buckwheat Groats)
Basic Millet
Basic Quinoa
Basic Wild Rice
About Lentils
Clementines
Roasted Veggie Soup Starter
Salad Starter
Spaghetti Squash Cooking Instructions
Diana's Favorite Steamer and Other Gadgets