Best Side Dish Recipes - Spa Index Guide to Spas

Mexican Quinoa Salad – Recipe by Rancho La Puerta Spa

Mexican Quinoa Salad with jalapeño, corn and avocado for a spicy and smooth twist, plus a delicious lemony parsley garlic dressing you’ll want to use all summer.

Summer Vegetable Fritters – Skyterra Recipe

These tasty fritters can easily be enhanced with protein, chick peas, lentils, cashews and more! Delicious over a salad with avocado and white beans.

Roasted Garlic Hummus – Skyterra Recipe

Hummus is rich in healthy fats, fiber, potassium, small amounts of iron and heart healthy benefits from the garlic.

Pritikin Crispy Breaded Cauliflower

Try this recipe for Crispy Breaded Cauliflower as a side dish, or make large pieces for an entree with your favorite dip.

Sweet Potato Toast – Ranch Malibu

Sliced and roasted sweet potatoes stand in for bread for the simple snacks of “veggie toast”. Enjoy for any meal!

Twice Baked Cheesy Stuffed Potatoes

Twice Baked Cheesy Stuffed Potatoes add to your protein intake, and make use of lower fat cheeses to have a rich side dish wish doesn’t sabotage your meal.

Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice – Paleo

This recipe for Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice is ideal as a side dish for both paleo friendly menus and low-carb entrees as well. It combines riced cauliflower in place of the grain, ghee, broth, and zesty flavors.

Mexican Street Corn Salad – Kaiser Thrive

This lighter version of a popular spicy and creamy corn recipe is terrific as a salads, vegetarian entree or side dish.

Loaded Baked Potato Salad – Hilton Head Health

Hilton Head Health teaches guests how to makeover popular recipes, like this Loaded Baked Potato Salad which is now only 150 calories per serving.

Sauteed Spinach and Roasted Tomatoes

Fresh baby spinach leaves sauteed with roasted tomatoes and garlic is a delicious savory summer side dish.

Orange Marinated Beets – Recipe by Rancho La Puerta Spa

Imbued with the fresh zest of oranges and the earthy flavor of fresh beets and a tangy splash of vinegar, this recipe for Orange Marinated Beets recipe is a colorful and vibrant side dish for your spa lunch. Shared by Chef and Recipe Developer Lia Huber, guest Chef at Rancho La Puerta Spa and author of Nourished: A Memoir of Food, Faith and Enduring Love.

Pritikin Garden Vegetable Potato Salad

This potato salad adds garden vegetables and skips fatty mayonnaise. It was a Most Filling Dish winner in Pritikin’s Cooking School Recipe Contest.

Bleu Cheese and Cherry Stuffed Endive – Skyterra Recipe

Skip ordinary cheese and crackers and use crisp, leafy endives for a plant-based pre-meal platter instead. This delicious appetizer is courtesy of Skyterra Wellness Retreat.

Thai Braised Brussels Sprouts – Hilton Head Health

One of the guest favorite recipes served at Hilton Head Health is this side dish of Thai Braised Brussels Sprouts. This side dish is packed with tantalizing Thai flavors; creamy coconut and zesty curry.

Reduced Fat Twice Baked Potatoes

A reduced fat creamy and cheesy stuffed potato side dish, great with your dinner, soup or salad

Stuffed Skinny Potato Skins

The potato side dish you’ve been waiting for! This updated version of an old time favorite is just as good but is much lower in carbohydrates . Serve as a meal with a side salad or make as an appetizer.

Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins

One crispy (or rather, greasy) potato skin at a restaurant is often 400 calories and more (and who stops at just one?) These yummy Pritikin Crispy Potato Skins are only about 120 calories – for 4 skins!

Sauteed Peaches and Pumpkin Seeds

Try these Sauteed Peaches with Pumpkin Seeds as a side dish for seafood or poultry, or, serve atop your favorite greens for a Warm Fruit and Greens Salad.

Pritikin Roasted Tomatoes and Chard Recipe

This recipe for roasted tomatoes and chard is easy, delicious and nutritious. Serve it as a side dish. Makes store-bought tomatoes taste wonderful!

Summery Garden Bean and Tuna Salad

By adding a can of white water-packed tuna to a Pritikin approved bean salad, we’ve got a winning complete entree with this Summer Bean and Tuna Salad.

Baked Sweet Potato Chips – Skyterra Recipe

Sometimes you just want and need that crunchy, salty, savory mouth feel — you want chips! This is a nutritious option.

Pritikin Tropical Salsa

This Tropical Salsa recipe has Spice, Sweet and Heat but nothing bad for you – no salt, no added sugar, no waist-expanding oil or other fats.

Golden Door Spa Guacamole

This usually high fat appetizer reduces calories by using only a few avocados, but adding the characteristic bright green color with the addition of fresh peas. No flavor is sacrificed, but a few calories are!

Grilled Turkey Burgers with Broccoli Salad

Grilled Turkey Burgers are a terrific departure from beef, and Broccoli Slaws are popular in our home and office. They tote well, last a long time and improve with a day or two in the fridge.

Roasted Cauliflower with Cilantro Aioli

Roasted cauliflower is the perfect comfort food for a cold weather meal. Served with a tangy Aioli.

Spa Orange Almond Brown Rice Pilaf

Serve this savory side dish of brown rice pilaf with your favorite fish, poultry or pork, or use it as a stuffing.

Healthy Chef Skinny Dips

The Healthy Chef, Teresa Cutter, one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking, has some great Skinny Dips for spa parties and holiday meals.

Pritikin Savory Sage Dressing

Who needs traditional stuffing packed with artery busters like sausage and butter when you can enjoy all the savory richness and warmth of healthy Pritikin Savory Sage Dressing?

Corn and Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes

Mashed Potatoes With Corn and Fat-Free Sour Cream, perfect for holiday meals or just nights when you’re craving a little comfort food but want to be good to your heart and waistline.

Fat Free Sugar Free Cornbread

This recipe for lighter cornbread is veggie rich, but free of oil, sugar, and cholesterol (what you’d find in many cornbread recipes), and still offers that classic, delicious cornbread flavor.

Mashed Potatoes & Turnips with Caramelized Onions

This simple comfort food recipe for Mashed Potatoes and Turnips with Caramelized Onions is filled with complex carbohydrates and many nutrients. Why mess up your arteries with all the butter and cream of regular mashed potatoes when you can enjoy the rich piquant flavors of this recipe?

Spicy Kale with White Beans and Garlic

This quick and flexible vegetarian Spicy Kale with White Beans and Garlic serves just you or entire family! Garlic and Parmesan cheese provide savory flavors and balance the bitterness of Kale. Beans provide a source of protein. Vinegar, kale, and red pepper flakes all help in to digest the heaviness of beans.

Pritikin Roasted Pumpkin Wedges

This healthy recipe for Pritikin Pumpkin Wedges is vegetable-rich, only takes 3 ingredients, and can be a tasty vegetable and dessert, all in one. Plus, pumpkins are a bonafide super-food, so it’s a triple duty recipe — easy, delicious and nutritious.

Pritikin Lighter Hummus Dip Recipe

This lighter but full-flavored version of hummus, a traditional Mediterranean dip, is a great source of of heart healthy mono-unsaturated fat and lean protein.

Pritikin Fat Free Potato Salad

This Fat Free Potato Salad, created by the chefs at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Florida, is light on calories but full of rich, zesty flavor thanks to fat-free sour cream, Greek yogurt, and herbs.

Harvest Quinoa Pilaf

This recipe is a tasty side dish with fruit, grains and arugula and topped with pumpkin seeds

Vegetarian Collard Greens

It wouldn’t be a southern table without delicious collard greens on the side. Try this healthy vegetarian version for Thanksgiving this year.

Three Sisters Succotash

Corn, beans and squash are the principal foods of many Native American tribes. They’re called “the three sisters” because they support one another as they grow. The corn grows tall, allowing the bean vine to twine around her stalk. The bean fixes the nitrogen in the soil, and the squash has big leaves that hold in moisture.