Recipes From Cuisine: Italian

Apple Fritter

Apple, Pear or Banana Fritters


Fruit Fritters are a quick, easy alternative to pancakes and waffles, and simpler than make than donuts. You could call them fruit flavored doughnut holes. Fruit Fritters can be made in advance, and refrigerate and reheat them in a microwave or toaster oven. Reheating Fritters in a toaster oven retains ...

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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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Homemade Lentil Soup

Lentil Soup


Lentils are high in fiber and protein and do not require presoaking before cooking. Lentil soup is simple and can be prepare and served dozens of ways. Lentil soup is low calorie and high fiber. Lentils are one of the best sources of legume fiber and protein. An 11 ounce ...

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Baked white fish with potatoes

Baked Fish and Potatoes Recipe


Baked Fish and Potatoes is a simple, low calorie and sodium recipe that serves 4 to 5 people. It uses frozen fish fillets that allows you to make this recipe any time in just about 90 minutes without having to first thaw the fish. The 60 minute cooking time thaws and cooks ...

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Homemade Focaccia

Focaccia Barese


Focaccia Barese (Bari Focaccia) from the Southern Italian state of Apulia (Pulia) is nothing like the flat, chew, bread served by many Italian-American restaurants or available in stores throughout the United States. Some stores carry Bari style focaccia, but like most American made foods it neither looks nor tastes like the real ...

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Homemade Tomato Bruschetta

Tomato Bruschetta & Mini Antipasto Pizzas


Tomato bruschetta (pronounced (brus-ket-ta) takes only minutes to make and has dozens of variations. Toasted, sliced bread provides the base. Toppings include: Diced tomato Diced tomato and basil Diced tomato and oregano Diced tomato and slided olives Olive tapenade Extra virgin olive oil and a little salt is all that is needed to complete ...

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