Recipes From Cuisine: Italian
Cucumber, Tomato & Olive Salad
For many Americans, a salad is iceberg lettuce, tomato, cucumber and salad dressing. A good size salad made from the first three ingredients has about 200 calories. Four tablespoons of creamy salad dressing can add 400 or more calories. The dressing adds flavor but very few nutrients. While 600 or ...
Read moreBeef and Turkey Meatballs
You can use Beef and Turkey Meatballs in any recipes calling for meatballs like spaghetti and meatballs, meatball sandwich and meatballs served with tomato or other sauce. Small meatballs (1/2 to 3/4 inch) are perfect in soups, as a pizza topping or served as an appetizer. Replacing pork with 93% ...
Read moreOne-Pan Pasta Margherita With Spicy Italian Sausage
In the U.S., consumers have a choice between boxed meals providing dried pasta and a package of dried seasoning added to 1 pound of ground beef or precooked frozen meals that go from freezer to stove to table. Both are convenient, but usually have preservatives and other ingredients you may not ...
Read moreOne-Pan Pasta Margherita With Chicken
Margherita refers to an Italian style pizza made with fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil that Queen Margherita supposedly preferred over two other Neapolitan pizzas prepared in her honor. A pasta recipe made with just basil, tomato sauce and mozzarella would be a bit boring, but it doesn’t take many more ingredients ...
Read more20 Minute Pasta With Zucchini
Overweight Americans are told to reduce or eliminate refined carbohydrates (white flour, rice, and sugar) from their diet. This includes most dry pastas even though billions of people eat pasta made from refined white flour and white rice daily and are not overweight or obese. Pasta eaten alone and raw ...
Read moreEasy Vegetarian White Bean Soup
Easy Vegetarian White Bean Soup takes only minutes to prepare after soaking the beans overnight. Soaking reduces cooking time and the oliosaccarides that can cause gas. There is no need to sauté the onion unless you want the added flavor of caramelized onion. All ingredients except salt and pepper are added ...
Read moreOne-Pan Pasta With Bacon
One-Pan Pasta with Bacon is another in a series of one-pan meals that takes about the same time to prepare and cook as popular boxed pasta meals, but without the preservatives, MSG, and artificial colors and flavors. This simple pasta entree or side dish has 220 calories and 2 grams of saturated fat ...
Read more320 Calorie Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli
A restaurant Fettuccine Alfredo meal can provide a days worth of calories, several days worth of saturated fat if made from cream, and over a days worth of sodium. All you get for your 2,000 calories is a large plate of Fettuccine Alfredo, a salad and bread. Add an appetizer, ...
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