Side dishes can compliment a meal or be used as a main dish depending on how much is being served.  

Baba Ganoush is a great dip for raw vegetables, or crackers and is super yummy spread on the raw onion bread (recipe on the raw recipe page)

Quinoa Salad with Black Beans This recipe is from my daughter, Michelle Pryslak who is a registered dietitian in Virgina. She is writing a gluten free cookbook and this is one of her recipes.  We love it as a main dish, but works well as a side dish too.  We like the addition of chopped green peppers.