All Mediterranean Recipes
Explore Authentic and Modern Mediterranean recipes — from savory breakfasts to hearty dinners and fresh salads. All made with love, flavor, and tradition by a mediterranean Recipes lover.
Pantzarosalata: The Blood-Magenta Dip You Cannot Fake With Dye
September 6, 2026
Written by Ines Zahraoui — Tunisian home cook and co-founder of The Mediterranean Recipe, developing and testing recipes in her own kitchen since 2020. More about Ines → There is no bottle of anything that makes this colour. Beetroot produces a magenta so saturated it looks lit from inside — somewhere between arterial and neon,
Italian Day of the Dead Recipes: What Italy Bakes for 1 and 2 November
September 6, 2026
Ossi dei morti, fave dei morti and pan dei morti — the bakes Italy has made for 1 and 2 November for centuries. Recipes, regions and the traditions.
Halloween Food Prep Timeline: What to Make Three Weeks Out, and What Can Wait
September 4, 2026
What to make three weeks out, one week out, the day before and the morning of. A printable countdown built around a Saturday Halloween night.
How to Colour Halloween Food Naturally: Black, Blood-Red, Green and a Cabbage That Changes Colour
September 4, 2026
How to make food genuinely black, blood-red and deep green without dye — black tahini, squid ink, beetroot, peppers, and red cabbage that changes colour.
Mediterranean Halloween Party Menu Planner: Three Menus and the Rules Behind Them
September 1, 2026
Three ready-made Mediterranean Halloween menus — gothic dinner, kids’ party and grazing buffet — plus the six-slot rule for building your own.
Pan dei Morti: The Darkest Cookie in Italian Baking
August 29, 2026
Dark, spiced Milanese biscuits packed with figs, raisins, cocoa and crushed amaretti. The moodiest bake of the season and made for 1 November.
Fave dei Morti: The Italian Halloween Cookie Named After Beans
August 29, 2026
Small chewy almond cookies shaped like broad beans, baked across Italy for All Souls’ Day. One bowl, no mixer, and they keep for a full two weeks.
Midnight Masquerade Halloween Party: A Mediterranean Halloween Dinner Party Menu for 8
August 29, 2026
A full Mediterranean menu for a masquerade Halloween dinner — courses, run sheet, tablescape and the one rule about masks nobody plans for.
Gothic Halloween Mezze Board: The Grazing Table That Is Actually Dinner
August 29, 2026
A moody Mediterranean grazing board in oxblood, black and deep purple. Feeds 12, ninety percent make-ahead, and not a plastic spider in sight.
Black Tahini Hummus: Genuinely Black, Genuinely Good, No Dye
August 28, 2026
Jet-black hummus made with black tahini, not food coloring. Nutty, silky and the most dramatic thing you can put on a Halloween grazing board.