Recipe Skill Level: Easy
Teriyaki Marinade & Sauce
Teriyaki chicken, beef, and seafood are popular quick serve and casual restaurant items. Soy sauce is a major ingredients that is high in sodium. So, most teriyaki style foods are high sodium foods. Foods served teriyaki style can also be high in sugar. This Japanese style teriyaki marinade and sauce obtains ...
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Saffron Rice
A little saffron turns plain white rice into pale to bright yellow saffron rice. Saffron also adds a mild flavor to rice. Using white rice is essential for the color to be absorbed into the rice. Saffron rice can be served with any recipe that called for white rice. Saffron ...
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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 ...
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Fish With Tomato & Corn Salsa
Simple Fish With Tomato & Corn Salsa takes less than 20 minutes to make and has less then 300 calories per serving. Although the recipe uses pan-fried fish, you can substitute broiled or grilled fish. Each cooking method is low fat and produces a slightly different flavor. You can try ...
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250 Calorie Chicken or Turkey Pot Pie
Pot pies are comfort food. Fast food and casual restaurants serve them, and your grocer’s frozen food isle carries several brands and sizes. But this comfort food can come with more calories and sodium than most people need. Most of the calories and fat in conventional pot pies are in the ...
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Oven Roasted Zucchini
Zucchini is about 90 percent water and very low in calories. Oven Roasted Zucchini is a quick, easy recipe you can make using your oven or toaster oven depending on the amount. While over 75 percent of the calories are from fat, most of the fat is monounsaturated if you ...
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Easy Gluten-Free Coconut Shrimp
Coconut shrimp is a popular appetizer and entree in the United States. The coconut provides a sweet crispness to succulent shrimp. Easy Coconut Shrimp recipe is gluten free and has less calories than most coconut shrimp recipes by replacing tempura or other batter with beaten egg white. Prep time takes ...
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One-Pan Chinese-Style Shrimp & Vegetables
Chinese and other Asian foods can be very low calorie. A 10 ounce (270 g) serving of One-Pan Chinese-Style Shrimp & Vegetables has less than 300 calories and takes about 30 minutes to prepare and cook. This recipe using frozen Chinese-style stir fry vegetables. In the United States there are two ...
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One-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 ...
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Taco Lettuce Wraps
Taco Lettuce wraps can cut calories by up to 50 percent by replacing fried corn taco shells with low calorie, fat and sodium lettuce leaves. You can use any variety of head or leaf lettuce. Nutrition values are about the same for head and leaf lettuce. Calories for this recipe are ...
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