Recipes From Cuisine: Italian
Biscotti di Prato
Biscotti are one of the most popular and most recognizable Italian cookies in the United States. Biscotti is Italian for cookies like the English (England) word biscuit. It refers to all cookies, not just the long, narrow twice-baked biscotti sold in the United States. Biscotti di Prato is a variation of ...
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Pasta Alfredo Primavera
Pasta Alfredo Primavera adds vegetables and meat protein to traditional Italian-American Alfredo sauce made with butter and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese reducing calories and saturated fat per serving. Restaurant Alfredo sauce can also be very high in sodium providing 1 to 2 days worth. You can make Alfredo sauce in the ...
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Italian Meatballs
Americans love spaghetti and meatballs. Italian-American restaurant offer a plate piled high with spaghetti topped with 2 to 3 jumbo meatballs in a tomato based sauce. Some restaurant meatballs are huge providing as many calories and saturated fat as a steak. Italian polpetti is plural for meatballs. In Italy, meatballs ...
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Meatloaf
Meatloaf is easy to make, economical, can easily feed 6 or more people, and is one of Americas favorite comfort foods. Polpettone, Italian for meatloaf, refers to a large meatball. A Southern Italian meatloaf is made using ground beef and pork. Pork is more common and affordable in most parts ...
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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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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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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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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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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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