Muffuletta Salad
We’ve deconstructed this classic New Orleans sandwich—layers of Italian meat and cheese on soft muffuletta bread, topped with an olive salad—to make a truly healthy Mardi Gras meal. First, we lost the bread (it’s almost impossible to find, anyway), added greens, and turned the sandwich into a chopped salad. If you’re missing the bread, you can always include some rustic or gluten-free homemade croutons. We swapped lean turkey for the traditional mortadella and other fattier cuts of meat to reduce fat and calories, and allow the signature olive salad—like a tapenade, but better—to shine through. This slimmed-down twist uses a variation of the olive salad recipe from The Napoleon House in New Orleans.