Recipes From Cuisine: Mediterranean

Homemade Yeast Dinner Rolls

Basic Stand Mixer Yeast Bread Dough


Basic Stand Mixer Bread Dough is a yeast dough recipe easily prepared using a stand mixer eliminating hand kneading the dough. If you do not own a stand mixer, you can prepare this recipe by mixing all the ingredients in a large bowl until it forms a soft dough and then turning the ...

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Homemade Lasagna for Four

Lasagna For Four


Lasagna For Four uses no boil lasagna noodles available at most supermarkets. Briefly soaking the noodles in hot water cuts baking time in half and the noodles do not absorb as much sauce resulting in a moister lasagna. One box of Barilla® no cook lasagna contains about 15 sheets; enough ...

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Homemade Lasagna with Meat Sauce

Tomato Meat Sauce (Ragu)


Tomato sauce is a relatively recent addition to the Italian culinary scene. Hundreds of years after the tomato was introduced to Europeans it was still considered poisonous. Today, some organizations classify the tomato as a super food. How times have changed. Although this recipe is for Tomato Meat Sauce you can ...

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Homemade Stuffed Eggplant with Pasta

Stuffed Eggplant or Zucchini Recipe


An 11-oz. (300 g) serving of Stuffed Eggplant or Zucchini has less than 300 calories. That is the same number of calories or less than many frozen entrees and meals, but with no preservatives, artificial flavors and artificial colors. Moist, delicious Stuffed Eggplant or Zucchini gets it flavor from fresh ...

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Oven Roasted Peppers


Roasted peppers, sweet and hot, have been used in recipes for hundreds of years. Oven roasting is one simple method for roasting bell peppers and other peppers like, Anaheim, Hatch and jalapeño. Roasted peppers make a simple low calorie sandwich and taste great on fresh baked bread like focaccia. You ...

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Homemade Marinated Zucchini

Marinated Eggplant & Zucchini


Marinated Eggplant & Zucchini is a popular southern Italian recipe served as an antipasto, side vegetable and eaten alone or with other ingredients in sandwiches. This versatile recipe is very low in calories with no added sodium. The intense flavor comes from the fresh mint and vinegar in the marinade. Nutrition ...

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Homemade Link Italian Sausage

Lean Hot Italian Sausage


Use this recipe to make bulk, breakfast patty or extra-lean link sausage. For link sausage natural or manmade casings and a sausage stuffing machine are required. Kitchenaid stand mixers have an optional sausage stuffing attachment. Bulk sausage can be used to make tomato sauce, meatloaf, chili and dozens of other ...

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Ricotta Cheese with Fruit

Ricotta with Fresh Fruit


Enjoy Ricotta with Fresh Fruit for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, or  dessert. It is a low calorie alternative to cheesecake. An equivalent  weight slice of cheesecake can have over 3 times as many calories (about 700 calories). You do not need 700 calories from a dessert if your goal is ...

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Serving of Homemade Tiramisu

Tiramisu Recipe


This homemade Tiramisu rivals restaurant and frozen tiramisu, and has no preservatives or artificial ingredients. Tiramisu is smooth, creamy and packed with calories; 550 calories per 3×3-inch serving. Decreasing the serving size to 1/12 of the recipe, a common serving size for a 9-inch round cake, reduces the number of ...

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Serving of Panko Fried Shrimp

Panko Fried Shrimp Recipe


Low sodium Japanese style panko breadcrumbs are used to make crisp, succulent, restaurant quality Panko Fried Shrimp at a fraction of the cost of a restaurant shrimp dinner. Importing farm raised shrimp has caused prices to fall in the United States. What was once a luxury is now available for ...

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