Fill up on any of the following 7 grain-free side dish recipes, which all happen to be bursting with flavor.

Whether you’re by the pool, having a barbecue, or simply enjoying the summer heat, these recipes are sure to keep you full without weighing you down.

7 Grain-Free Side Dish Recipes

1. Potato Salad with Olive and Watercress

Potato salad is a necessary outdoor summer side dish. In this potato salad recipe, olives and watercress add an additional boost of flavor and texture. Watercress is full of phytonutrients and antioxidants and gives this recipe low-key salad status.

2. Grilled Eggplant Salad with Arugula and Avocado Salad

This salad combined a few of my favorite things: eggplant, arugula, and avocado. It’s the perfect filling side dish for the summer. You can bake or grill the eggplant, and the rest is a matter of tossing and chewing!

3. Green Bean Casserole

This green bean casserole is the epitome of how lighter versions of traditional recipes can be just as delicious. All you need are a few ingredients to achieve that the warm, creamy, crowd-pleasing sensations of green bean casserole. Nutritional yeast fills in for cheese and heavy cream and mushrooms, celery root, and onion pack in delicious flavors and lust-worthy textures.

4. Gluten-Free Angel Food Cake

What’s a meal without a dessert? Angel food cake is iconically light and airy, and this recipe takes it to the next level: the gluten-free level. Enjoy a slice after a light summer’s meal and round off your taste buds with something sweet. Enjoy!

5. Sweet Corn with Miso Butter and Scallions

Its name says it all. Don’t just stick to the basics when it comes to corn – spice it up with miso, scallions, and sesame seeds! You’ll thank me later.

6. Vegan Coleslaw

This coleslaw recipe is not only naturally gluten-free it is also vegan. That means there is no mayonnaise, which is perhaps the most unhealthy ingredient when it comes to noshing on this classic outdoor salad.

7. Green Gazpacho

Cool down with this green gazpacho soup recipe. It features raw veggies and fragrant herbs that are made more filling and creamy with the addition of avocado.

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Instead of being flavored with pork fat, let your modern day creamed corn sing the praises of coconut milk.

Back in 1951, Del Monte had a lot to say about its Creamy Style Golden Corn. It promised “plump” and “thin-skinned” kernels “crammed” into each can, and if that weren’t seducing enough, the ad’s complementary recipe involved the addition of pork chops, eggs, bread crumbs, and evaporated milk. Swoon!

The sliced pepper arrangement and strange presentation aside, the flavors in this recipe have really got it going on. Pork fat and creamy corn? Nothing you necessarily want to say no to, but if there were one health-conscious cell in our body, it would be meeting its demise right about now.

Come 2012, and we no longer just eat with our gut in mind, but rather with a more discerning eye towards nutrition. Luckily, a lighter, more modern version of this dish is actually much easier to prepare. The decadence remains intact, but the result is an entirely plant-based meal that puts flavor and health on the same pedestal. Enjoy!

Coconut Cream Corn

Serves 2

Ingredients:

• 2 cups frozen corn kernels
• 1 can (15 ounces) coconut milk
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 1 tablespoon chopped scallions
• Handful of parsley, chopped

Directions:

In a saucepan over medium heat, bring the corn, which does not need to be thawed, and the coconut milk to a simmer. Season with salt and pepper. Continue to cook until the coconut milk has largely evaporated. This will take about 15 minutes.

Once the mixture has reached desired consistency, mix in the parsley, red pepper flakes, and scallions.

Enjoy as a side-dish or snack. It can be eaten hot or cold.

Bon Appetit!

There is nothing quite like flipping through the pages of grandmother’s faded cookbooks in all their imperfect glory – the worn edges, the rampant sauce stains and the cluttered pencil marks. With their casseroles, ham dishes and affinity for elaborate presentation, the Betty Crocker and the Joy of Cooking cookbooks provide a glimpse of food before it all became so much more complicated.  At EcoSalon, we love good vintage inspiration, even when it comes to food. Welcome to Vintage Revamp, where we take old and classic recipes and refresh them with a modern-day twist.

Photo Credit: Hey, My Mom Used to Make That, Aylin Erman

Aylin Erman currently resides in Istanbul and is creator of plant-based recipe website GlowKitchen.

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