Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy of Clean Eating Kitchen: The Low-Carb Mediterranean Cookbook.

I absolutely love Mediterranean food and was excited when this popped up on my list. A low carb version of some of my favs?! What's not to love? While I'm excited to try several of these recipes, this cookbook didn't include a lot of the traditional foods I think of when I think of Mediterranean (moussaka, falafel, baklava, pita) which is disappointing as that is why I was interested in this cookbook.

Pros:
Variety of recipes, including a plant based section
Easy to read nutritional information
Super short introduction
Lots of photos

Cons:
Directions could be easier to read and broken down better. Some of them are paragraphs which aren't the easiest to follow along with while cooking
Photos lack pizazz- everything looks muted and pale
Lack of popular, traditional recipes

Anyone who knows me, knows I love a low carb lifestyle. I tend to feel my best when I’m sticking to a low carb diet, and I also love Mediterranean foods. This book is precisely that: a great mix of low carb and Mediterranean. The recipes look amazing and are equally as tasty. I especially like how the author includes the nutritional information under each recipe (this makes it easy for people who are tracking their macros). Overall, I would give this book five stars and I think all my other low carb lovers would as well.

Certainly a unique grouping of recipes. Not only healthy but they look awfully tasty too! Some ingredients can be found in most every grocery store but some you will have to hunt down in a local health food store. Some one pot dishes and fish dishes that I’ve never had combined with other things such as Chicken with Bell Peppers and Pecans. Chicken Paprikash with Mushrooms will be one I’ll be making soon. I love tuna salad for lunch and instead of mayonnaise, their recipe calls for a vinegar type salad dressing and avocado. Sounds delicious and much healthier for me. This cookbook is well done with a delectable way to eat healthier!
I received an advanced reader copy for free from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

Beautiful cookbook! A low carb diet can be intimidating, but this books simplifies some delicious recipes. I love how organized it is, and how it includes serving sizes and nutritional information for each recipe.

Lovely book of tasty recipes- fish, meat, chicken and vegetarian.
Particularly loved the herbs, seeds and spices used. Well written and lovely photos.
Have tried a couple of recipes already - found them easy enough with the instructions.
Interesting combinations of ingredients..
Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read this book in return for a fair review.
4.5 Stars ⭐️

Michelle Dudash is a registered dietician and knows her stuff! She outlines reasons for writing this book with an experienced Mediterranean background. As I live part time in the Mediterranean, this book is a meaningful connection to the place I love most in the world but cannot be right now due to covid. The Mediterranean diet (or lifestyle) is known to be the healthiest there is. Not only is the food healthy, there is an astonishing plethora of superb ingredients for the picking or foraging. People tend to use ingredients which complement and enhance. Availability is wondrous.

Dudash continues with information on the low-carb lifestyle and ingredients used. Due to health reasons I must eat low carb and as an expert cook was thrilled to see new-to-me recipes here along with old favourites, many with a delicious twist. The low-carb lifestyle can be daunting at first but once you are accustomed to the idea you will discover an entirely new world of cooking and baking.

Before reviewing this book I made a few recipes including the delectable Deviled Eggs with Basil and Pine Nuts (used almonds instead), Roasted Cauliflower hummus (wow!), Lebanese Meat Pies with Ground Beef and Lemon (love!), Lemon Baked Cod with Pistachio Crust (I used steelhead trout - sublime), Mediterranean Meatloaf with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce (could use ajvar; delicious!) and Crunchy Almond Clusters, simply to re-live a Rovinj experience (one of my favourite towns on the planet). Note that nutritional information is included with recipes. The photographs are saliva inducing but know that not every recipe has one.

I kept marking the recipes to make and discovered not only a few but most are now on my list! Some are Italian-Inspired Guacamole with Balsamic, Red Onion and Basil; Shrimp-Stuffed Mushrooms with Lemon and Rosemary; Caramelized Onion and Red Lentil Soup; Sauteed Salmon with Figs (oh, how I miss fresh figs!); Chicken Meatballs with Fresh Orange Jam; and Burrata Cheese with Balsamic-Marinated Strawberries.

Whether you eat low carb or Mediterranean or both (or neither!), these recipes are delightful and inspiring.

My sincere thank you to Quarto Publishing Group - Fair Winds and NetGalley for the privilege of enjoying this book. I mean really, REALLY enjoying it!

As an Italian-American, I struggle with cutting carbs in my diet. This book has recipes that are familiar in a Mediterranean diet but with a low carb twist. The recipes are easy to follow with ingredients that are easily accessible. I do wish there were a few more pictures bc a) the pics that are in the book look incredible and b) some of the recipes are harder to imagine how they will turn out. So a pic of the finished dish would be helpful.

I really wish there were more pictures because I haven't heard of a lot of these recipes. The ones that have pictures look really good, though.

Low-carb and Mediterranean are not two phrases that I thought would work together but this cookbook proved me wrong. Lots of gorgeous pictures and a plentiful amount of recipes I can't wait to try!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review.

I really like the front cover of the book. I thought there was some great recipes that I will definitely use but there where some I not heard of before. There was a few meals from the pictures that I didn’t like the look of. I will definitely give me more ideas on what to cook and to cut out sugar from my meals which is good idea.
Thank you NetGalley for letting me know read this book.

This fab recipe book gives the reader knowledge and information on the Mediterranean diet, explaining the benefits of it and goes on to produce low-carb recipes which the reader can go on to cook and enjoy.

The recipes range from ‘lively starters’ which contains recipes such as appetisers, salads, snacks and soups. Plant based meals, seafood, savoury chicken, beef, pork and lamb, vegetable sides and sweets and fruit dishes. This fab variety of recipes caters to most dietary needs. The recipes are pretty simple and most but not all are accompanied with a photographic picture, displaying the end product.

I particularly like the look of the fish dishes, stuffed peppers and some of the dessert meals. I will definitely be giving those tasty dishes a go. Mediterranean food is usually very flavourful so I’m excited for how they will taste!

The back of the book has an index so it is easy to navigate through the book to specific recipes you intend to cook.

** I received an advanced copy of this ebook to read and review. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for allowing me this opportunity**

I was really keen to read this book; I'm stuck in a bit of a meal rut and really enjoy low-carb meals that don't sacrifice being filling for being low-carb. There's a great variety of recipes in here, from starters and snacks to main courses and puddings; I've already earmarked a couple for next week's meal plan! The other thing I like about this book is that there are plenty of 'cold weather' recipes, by which I mean stews and heartier meals that will hit the spot when the weather is colder and you seek a warm comforting, filling bowl of goodness!

The book is well laid out, most recipes have a picture but not all - initially I found this a little off=putting, but actually the recipes sound so delicious that I've gotten over it!

The recipes are easy to follow (with the exception that if you are British, like me, the ingredients are very 'American'... thankfully google can help with the lesser known swaps!) , they have the time each recipe takes, how many it serves as well as the nutritional values - which I find really helpful when I'm being mindful of how many calories I intake.

A very straight forward cookbook with good Mediterranean recipes that will appeal to the slightly above novice level chef.

I received Clean Eating Kitchen as part of a NetGalley giveaway.

Low carb diets are currently a popular choice for many people looking to lose weight. These Mediterranean-inspired recipes lean heavily on vegetables, meats, and seafoods to create healthy, nutritious, flavorful, and satisfying meals.

As a distance runner, I don't personally subscribe to a low-carb diet, but lean proteins and vegetables are a major part of my food intake, and Clean Eating Kitchen is a good introduction to that lifestyle. The photography is beautiful, the ingredients are easy to source, and the directions are simple for even a novice cook. I'd say it has limited appeal for advanced home chefs, as the techniques and ingredients a are *very* basic, but lots of people are starting from that point and this is a great choice of cookbook for people in that category.

Was really intrigued by this book. The 'mediterranean diet' is something that is always recommended and hyped up for being the most healthy so I was desperate to read this one to get some new recipe ideas.

This book is certainly beautiful to look at, but I did find some of the recipes in here a bit daunting. There was a lot of ingredients that I had never heard of or used before. Also, there wasn't a photo for each recipe (which is always a pet peeve of mine with cook books. I like seeing a photo for each recipe) so I don't think I will be as quick to try out the recipes in this book as I have been with other books. There was nothing in here that really stood out or excited me.

There's a lot of info and some interesting ideas, but it's not a cookbook that overly appeals to me.

This is a great cookbook! I love that the introduction is short and the recipe portion is long unlike some cookbooks that are more about the story than the food. Lots of pictures and even more delicious recipes for low carb eating.

This is a nice Mediterranean cookbook for those who follow low-carb diets. My husband and I currently eat clean keto with a slant towards Mediterranean and I've read probably a dozen similar books. This is a good one. Note that it is for low-carb diets and not all recipes will work for keto diets. Photos are provided for about 1/3 of the recipes. Nutritional information is provided for each recipe. There are lots of recipes for vegetarians and it will work well for those with dietary restrictions. Many of the ingredients are on the pricier side (shrimp, octopus, pine nuts...) but lots also revolve around simple beans and veggies. The use of beans and grains may put off some strict keto folks, but there are enough other recipes to balance that out, and many keto folks transition to a healthy low-carb diet once they get to a maintenance period because of the benefits of foods that would be otherwise omitted. All in all, it's a good book with authentic flavors and truly healthy dishes.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Beautiful displays of food in the photos, don’t make the mistake of reading this book whilst hungry as I did.
A great book focusing on Mediterranean recipes. This cook book can be used by those following the keto diet. Also recipes include nutrition information.

Clean Eating Kitchen:The Low Carb Mediterranean CookbooK by Michelle Dudash is a nice cookbook that I would recommend to someone who is just starting with the Mediterranean diet. I really appreciated how every recipe had nutritional information and that the recipes are made with easy to find, fresh ingredients. There are recipes for every course and different lifestyles. A great addition for those looking to improve or change their eating habits in a delicious, easy, and healthy way.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review.

After the science-y bit, about why a Mediterranean diet, and a low-carb one at that, should be beneficial to us, we get the recipes, in this pleasantly fat-free recipe book. (By that I mean the book has less fat, waffle and gratuitous lifestyle-selling, which is how it should be. As for the recipes, I guess you can check the data within.) What was a pleasant surprise was the inclusion of countries beyond Spain, Italy and Greece – the author's part- Lebanese heritage proving there is much more to the Mediterranean region than just the European corners one might normally think of. So we have nuts far more so than we have olives, fatayer before our frittata, and of course "zoodles" instead of our pastas.

Partly as a result, perhaps, what I pulled from these pages to try later were perhaps the less typical dishes – a lentil and onion soup full of simplicity and goodness, a chickpea stew that seemed too wintry for the Adriatic, and turmeric chicken burgers – just because my partner swears by it for health reasons. Reading through I see no problems with replicating the intended results, given the clear writing on offer. The book does kind of preach to the handy chef with a good store of foodstuffs at times ("for this recipe I use quinoa, as you're likely to already have it on hand" my arse), but the recipes never demand the top price implements or most exacting shopping list of us. Also they come with notice of swaps when certain ingredients aren't the be-all and end-all, and hints to make them fully family-friendly. Given that I'm posting this having sampled none of the goods herein, I still think I can recommend this book. People on a mission to cut the carbs will get a lot of mileage out of this, and a Mediterranean table as the author implies is one of the more instagrammable ones around, with the dishes here offering many things for the eyes as well as the tastebuds.