Recipes - FoodByMaria

📱 Download the FBM App | 🫒 Try My Greek Olive Oil

10 Ingredients Or Less

Chicken gyros on a plate with a hand reaching for the wrap

30 Minute Meals

Appetizers

Blue Zone

Yummy loaded vegan everything bagel sandwich being cut by a knife for serving.

Breakfast

Budget Friendly

Comfort Food

Vegan Cinnamon Bun Bread sliced on cutting board

Desserts

Dips, Sauces & Spreads

Gluten Free

Greek Recipes

Close-up of BBQ salmon kebabs

Grilling and Smoking

Holidays

How To's

Kid Friendly

Main Dishes

Greek chicken souvlaki on skewers on a plate

Meat

One of the many vegan comfort food recipes - creamy orzo - in a bowl.

Pasta Dishes

Raw Food

Salads

Sandwiches, Burgers & Toasts

Seafood

Smoothies & Drinks

Soups

Stuffed

Vegetarian

Main Dishes

Mediterranean Quinoa Bowl

A person in a white shirt sits by a window, smiling and pouring oil into a bowl. On the right, a close-up shows oil dripping into a bowl against a blurred background with fruits.

Welcome!

Delicious Healthy Food and Recipes for Everyone

Search any of our categories below for an abundance of options for all eaters: including budget-friendly recipes, ultimate guides, and meals to cook in 30 minutes or less.

While you’re at it, treat yourself to one of our cookbooks or by downloading the FoodByMaria app. Because you deserve it!

The Latest

A plate with five pieces of stuffed rolled crepes topped with tomato sauce and a dollop of sour cream, garnished with fresh herbs. In the background, there are fresh green herbs on a table.

Stuffed

Cabbage Roll Casserole 🥬

A hand holding a glass jar filled with spiralized carrots, chopped herbs, and seasonings. The background is a softly blurred indoor setting with warm lighting.

Gluten Free

Shaved Carrot Salad 🥕

A white bowl filled with sautéed white beans and fresh dill on top of a creamy green sauce, placed on a white table with a striped cloth and other dishes partially visible in the background.

Greek Recipes

Crispy Butter Beans with Spanakopita Whipped Feta 🧀

A close-up of a bowl of bean and vegetable soup with a spoon lifting a portion, showcasing beans, leafy greens, and a tomato-based broth. Two more bowls of soup are blurred in the background.

Soups

Blue Zone Minestrone Soup 🥣

A hand pours pinkish liquid from a glass bottle into a large mason jar filled with colorful layers of chopped fruits, vegetables, and herbs on a kitchen counter.

How To's

Fire Cider Recipe

A hand holds a chip topped with a chunky vegetable and herb mixture, with a bowl of the same salad or salsa in the background.

30 Minute Meals

Shrimp Salad Recipe (Easy & Fresh)

A plate of meatballs served with roasted potatoes, halved cherry tomatoes, fresh mint, and a creamy white sauce on a white platter.

Ultimate Guide

Easy Greek Dinners for Busy Weeknights

A bowl of thinly sliced ginger sits on a kitchen counter beside cut limes, a wooden citrus juicer, a glass jar, a teapot, and small dishes of salt and red spice. The background shows more kitchen items.

Gluten Free

Easy Pickled Ginger & Gut Health Benefits

A bowl of creamy soup topped with a lemon slice and fresh dill, served in a white ceramic bowl, with other similar bowls and lemon wedges nearby.

30 Minute Meals

Creamy Pastina Soup with Sausage

A baked dish featuring meatballs, sliced yellow potatoes, cherry tomato halves, and fresh herbs like dill and mint on a sheet pan. The ingredients are evenly spread, with golden-brown edges visible on the pan.

Ultimate Guide

Greek Dinner Recipes

A hand holds a glass container filled with cooked ground beef, rice, roasted sweet potatoes, greens, a dollop of creamy sauce, and garnished with fresh cilantro leaves.

All Recipes

Freezer Meal Cubes (Portioned Mix-and-Match Meal Prep) 🧊

A person scoops a serving of grain and vegetable salad from a white bowl using two serving utensils. The salad contains barley, sliced vegetables, and herbs.

30 Minute Meals

Brussel Sprout Salad with Apples, Gruyere and Walnuts

Warming Winter Soups

A person in a cozy sweater holds a bowl of vegan Avgolemono soup, garnished with fresh herbs. They are about to savor a spoonful. The scene is warmly lit, with a soft, rustic background.

Soups

Vegan Avgolemono

Potsticker soup

30 Minute Meals

Easy Creamy Potsticker Soup

Tortilla soup in a bowl on counter

Soups

Easy Tortilla Soup

My Families Authentic Greek Recipes

Stuffed

Greek Stuffed Eggplant (Papoutsakia)

Close up of Greek meatball recipe on platter

30 Minute Meals

Greek Meatball Recipe (Keftedes)

30 Minute Meals

Greek Lemon Chicken Soup (Avgolemono Soup)

Chocolate Sweet Tooth

Stuffed

Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed Oreos

Amazing almond flour brownies ready to be served.

Gluten Free

Vegan Gluten Free Almond Flour Brownies

Bowl of breakfast muffin recipe on counter

Breakfast

Breakfast Muffin Top

The Best Dip Recipes

Comfort Food

Spinach and Artichoke Dip Recipe

A bowl of spicy feta dip with olive oil being drizzled on top

30 Minute Meals

Spicy Greek Feta Dip (Tirokafteri)

Greek Recipes

Greek Feta Dip with Sizzling Scallions

Noodles!

Chopsticks picking up a bunch of Vegan Garlic Noodles off a plate

30 Minute Meals

Vegan Garlic Noodles

Soups

Gut Friendly Thai Noodle Soup (Thai Inspired)

Pesto pasta on a serving platter

Main Dishes

Lemon & Garlic Pasta with Easy Pesto

Buy Our Cookbook!

Treat yourself to our beautiful cookbooks and ebooks filled with our most nourishing and delicious recipes!

Shop now

@foodbymaria

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 18549533563053115

Creamy Pastina Soup with Sausage today @foodbymaria

🍋👩🏻‍🍳Comment ‘recipe’ below if you want the recipe for my Creamy Pastina Soup with Sausage
!! It will be sent directly to your DM’s or tap the link in my bio to access our website. 👩🏻‍🍳🍋

This dish feels like a love letter to comfort food across cultures. It’s a beautiful hybrid. The nostalgia of Italian pastina, the silky lemony warmth of Greek avgolemono, and that rich, creamy depth we all crave from a classic Italian carbonara. Simple ingredients, layered technique, and pure soul in a bowl.

What makes it special isn’t just how comforting it is, but how it teaches you to cook with instinct. You’re tempering, tasting, feeling your way through, trusting the process instead of rigid rules. It’s the kind of recipe that reminds you food doesn’t have to be complicated to be meaningful. Just honest, thoughtful, and made with care.

👩🏻‍🍳Don’t forget to save this post for later! 📱 💥 You can also access all these recipes on the FoodByMaria App which is available for both Apple and Android. 📱 💥

#Greece #GreekFood #GreekRecipes #Soup #Italian

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 18124915384545744

Let’s make Cheeseburger Stuffed Pitas! 🍔

Welcome Back to Your Greek Mommy’s Channel - today’s recipe is cheesy, filling and SO delicious. Quick, easy and made using ingredients you probably already have at home. The pita only requires 7 ingredients.

These pita’s alone have amassed over 123 million views and over 6.6 million likes. If you are a maximalist like me then follow @foodbymaria for more delicious, Greek recipes!

🇬🇷 🫓 🇬🇷 Comment “recipe” below if you want the recipe/instructions for the Cheeseburger Stuffing — it will be sent directly to your DM’s or tap the link in my bio to access our website. 🇬🇷 🫓 🇬🇷

Don’t forget to save this post for later! 📱 💥 You can also access all these recipes on the FoodByMaria App which is available for both Apple and Android. 📱 💥

All you need is seven ingredients – ones that you probably already have in your pantry and 10 minutes of active prep time + proofing and 30 minutes of cook time! Here’s all you need — you got this bestie! DON’T FORGET TO SERVE THESE WITH TZATZIKI, GARLIC BURGER SAUCE OR even RANCH!

- 3 cups bread flour (or all purpose flour) - we used @bobsredmill
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 6 tbsp warm whole milk
- 1 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp active dry yeast - @fleischmannsyeast
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 tsp salt - @diamondcrystalsalt �
Instructions:

Continued in the comments…

#GreekRecipes #Greece #GreekFood #GreekPita

Greek Food, Homemade Food, Greece, Homemade Pita, Delicious Food, Homemade Bread, Homemade

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 17961718491019660

Oven Baked Sundried Tomato Meatballs and Orzo today @foodbymaria

🍋👩🏻‍🍳🇬🇷Comment ‘recipe’ below if you want the recipe for my Creamy Orzo and Chicken Meatballs!! It will be sent directly to your DM’s or tap the link in my bio to access our website. 🇬🇷👩🏻‍🍳🍋

This is truly the simplest family dinner to exist ,and not only tha,t it’s downright delicious. Creamy orzo (inspired by Spanakopita), juicy chicken meatballs, 🍋 lemony 🧄 sauce… damn! My go-to sundried tomatoes is always @dellalofoods, and they’re orzo is such a high-quality choice for this elevated dish, that will make you feel like a 5-star chef!

What I love most about this dish is that it really teaches the techniques to cooking with passion, soul and instinct.

👩🏻‍🍳Don’t forget to save this post for later! 📱 💥 You can also access all these recipes on the FoodByMaria App which is available for both Apple and Android. 📱 💥

�#Greece #GreekFood #GreekRecipes #ChickenandOrzo #GreekChicken

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 18125549254548346

This might be the most unexpected Super Bowl bite you’ll make.

Flaky puff pastry stuffed with my mom’s legendary keftedakia, juicy Greek meatballs loaded with feta, melty cheese, Mediterranean flavors, and fresh mint for that perfect POP, then baked golden and served with cool tzatziki. Whether you’re here for the touchdowns or the snacks, this one wins.

Full recipe below! Don’t forget to save this and follow for more.

PS this full recipe is avaiable EXCLUSIVELY on the foodbymaria APP! Available for both Android and Apple.

INGREDIENTS

For the meat mixture:

450g ground chicken
1 tsp kosher salt
½ tsp ground pepper
4 small to medium size garlic cloves, pressed
1 small yellow onion, diced
2 tbsp fresh minced parsley
2 tbsp fresh minced dill
2 tbsp fresh minced mint
1 egg
½ tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup grated mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese�
½ cup (plus more if needed) white sesame seeds
1x egg
6 sheets of defrosted frozen puff pastry
Tzatziki for dipping

INSTRUCTIONS:

Continued in the comments…

IB: @pastalimpus the Queen herself 😍

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 18302446795275503

I regret how I used to eat carrots. I wish I did this instead.
This is the only way I eat them now. Crunchy, satisfying, no notes.

Been making a version of this since university—this version by @cassyeungmoney wins.

Recipe below. Save it 🥕

Ingredients:

2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp honey
1 lime, juiced
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tsp grated garlic
1/4 tsp chili flakes
6 large carrots, peeled and thinly shaved
1/3 cup fresh chopped cilantro
1 jalapeno, seeded and finely diced
1 tbsp sesame seeds

Instructions:

1. To a large glass jar or bowl, add the rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, honey, lime juice, kosher salt, grated ginger, grated garlic and chili flakes. Shake the dressing in the jar to combine or whisk if using a bowl.
2. Add the thinly shaved carrots, fresh chopped cilantro and finely diced jalapeno (or sub chili flakes) and give everything a good shake if using a jar or toss to coat the carrots with the dressing if use a bowl.
3. Top with sesame seeds and enjoy!
4. Refrigerate the salad in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days.

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 18015201650645817

No sorry but we’re eating Kotopoulo for brunch.

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 17873889162485592

In 2026, we’re making Lego Lunches 🧱Would you try this?

This hack is pure genius. The idea of meal component prepping has completely changed how I see, shape, and enjoy my meals. @little.vegan.eats — you are truly a genius!!

Comment “RECIPE” below and I’ll send you the step-by-step blog post with everything you need to plan, prep, and make ahead for a seamless week.

Here are some more Lego Lunch pieces to play around with 👇

🧱 Proteins
1. Shredded chicken
2. Ground turkey (browned)
3. Meatballs (beef or turkey)
4. Cooked lentils
5. Black beans

🍞 Carbs
1. Rice (white or brown)
2. Quinoa
3. Pasta (short shapes)
4. Roasted potatoes
5. Sweet potato mash or cubes

🥦 Fibers
1. Broccoli
2. Bell peppers
3. Carrots
4. Green beans
5. Spinach

Mix, match, and build meals that actually make your week easier 🧩

#legolunches #mealprep #freezermeals #mealcomponents #healthyhabits

Open post by foodbymaria with ID 18091997647978867

So I hear we’re sharing our 2016 🥲
A year that changed everything.
2014 I started @foodbymaria
2015 I started foodbymaria.com.
2016 I jumped in head first, no floaties, no plan, just vibes and olive oil.
I bought my first camera (RIP to the horrific but passionate food photography).
Moved back to Canada from the UK.
Learned how to love myself while learning how to use manual mode.
Took more photos than I ever have in my life.
I celebrated.
I danced.
I laughed a lot.
I believed, sometimes blindly, but fully.
Looking back, it’s messy, tender, and wildly sincere.
And honestly? I wouldn’t change a single blurry photo.
Cheers to 2016—thank you for the courage, the chaos, and the confidence to begin 💛