Recipes From Cuisine: Mediterranean

Chicken with Homemade Italian Sausage Stuffing

Baked Chicken with Italian Sausage Stuffing


Stuffed fowl has been an Italian favorite since ancient Rome. You can make and cook this stuffing separately, or use it to stuff chicken, turkey, duck, or goose. This recipe makes about 4 cups of stuffing enough for 1 to 2 chickens depending on cavity size or a small turkey (12 ...

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Stewed Bell Peppers

Stewed Bell Peppers and Onions


Stewed Bell Peppers & Onions is popular in both northern and southern Italy. It’s ingredients of bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes are often listed as superfoods providing many health benefits while being very low in calories. A 4-oz. serving has just 70 calories. You can serve Stewed Bell Peppers & ...

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Broiled White Fish Fillet

Broiled Fish Fillets


Fresh fish is low in calories, saturated fat, and sodium. Broiled fish fillets takes only minutes to prepare and cook, and has a fraction of the calories of deep-fried fish. A broiled fish dinner can provide less calories than an 8-oz steak without side dishes. Replace red meat with fish ...

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Homemade Pickled Beets

Easy Pickled Red Beets


Red beets can be grown in a home garden of any size. Drowning your own beets from organ seeds assures pesticide free roots and leaves. Like most root vegetables, beets can be boiled, roasted, or grilled. If you have a lot of beet roots or just like pickled beets this ...

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Rosemary and Wine Potatoes

Rosemary & Wine Potatoes


Rosemary & Wine Potatoes is a simple, low-fat, low sodium recipe that is a delicious alternative to mashed or high calorie fried potatoes. This recipe is best using any firm potato like red, white, or Yukon Gold. Rosemary & Wine potatoes are infused with fresh or dried rosemary, garlic, and white ...

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Pasta With Rapini

Rapini and Pasta


Pasta with vegetables like this recipe for Rapini and Pasta is a common southern Italian recipe, but don’t look for it on the menu at your local Italian-American restaurant. Like endive and other greens, rapini has a slightly bitter flavor and is an acquired taste. Rapini, also known as cime ...

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Biscotti With Almonds

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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Homemade Pasta Alfredo Primavera

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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Homemade Spaghetti and Meatballs

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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Slice of Homemade Meatloaf

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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