Recipes From Cuisine: Mediterranean
Fresh Tomato Sauce
No jarred, canned, and very few restaurant fresh tomato sauce comes close homemade sauce made with vine ripened tomatoes from your garden or a farmers market. Easy variety of tomato (Roma, slicing, cherry, grape) has its own unique flavor. Depending on the type and ripeness of tomatoes used, the color of ...
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20 Minute Fagioli e Pasta (Beans & Macaroni)
When I came across canned, organic, white beans, I realized I had not made Fagioli e Pasta in over a year. This simple recipe has less than 500 calories per serving while providing 10 grams of fiber and 28 grams of protein. I used homemade tomato sauce, but you can use ...
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Thin Crust Pizza Dough
Authentic Southern Italian pizza is made with a crisp, thin, crust. In the United States it is associated with New York-style pizza. The original American pizza made by Italian immigrants in New York City. As pizza traveled west, the crust became thicker and the pizza bigger and heavier culminating in ...
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Fillo Shells (phyllo)
Whether you spell if filo, fillo, or phyllo, this paper thin, crisp versatile dough can be used for sweet or savory recipes. These, light, crispy, fillo shells look elegant, are very easy to make, and have about 45 calories for a large 3.5″ (88 mm) diameter shell. You can make ...
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Fried Vegetables
Fried vegetables are popular in Italian and other cuisines like Japanese and Thai. The biggest differences is the types of vegetables used by Italians, the batter ingredients, and frying in olive oil. Frying any food dramatically increases calories, but the fat calories come from healthy fats like olive, avocado, or canola ...
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Extra Lean Italian Turkey Sausage Stuffing
Italians have been stuffing poultry since ancient Rome. This extra lean turkey sausage stuffing recipe replaces pork sausage with turkey sausage made with 93 percent lean ground turkey and 88% lean or leaner ground beef to reduce saturated fat and calories. You can further reduce saturated fat and calories by ...
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Puff Pastry Apple Turnover
Are you tired of apple turnovers that are more turner than apple? With typical supermarket bakery turnovers you get about 1 tablespoon of apple filling per turnover. A teaspoon holds the filling in one-half of this turnover. The ratio of pastry to filling is 3:1 by weight or 1 ...
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Pasta With Grilled Chicken and Pesto
Pasta with grilled chicken and pesto is the first in my Quick Meal series of recipe suggestions. Recipe can be doubled. This recipe takes about 20 minutes to make from the time you begin heating water to cook the pasta and has only 4 ingredients: Any Dry Pasta Pesto Fresh Tomato ...
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Pasta With Shrimp And Green Peas
Pasta is economical and easy to prepare 100’s of way, and yet many diet plans and diet experts recommend eliminating pasta. They cite its high glycemic index and the fact most are made with reminded white flour. Disregard the fact many Italians eat pasta daily and are healthier than most ...
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40 Calorie Hot Italian Turkey Sausage
40 Calorie per Ounce Lean Hot Italian Turkey Sausage replaces ground pork with 97% lean ground turkey reducing calories and saturated fat by up to 50 percent. A 3 ounce (85 g) patty breakfast sausage has only 110 calories and 2 grams of saturated fat. It also has 50 percent less sodium ...
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