Recipes From Cuisine: Southern Italian
Sicilian Style Eggplant Pizza
Sicilain cuisine has many influences including Greek, Arab, and African. Sicily was a melting pot of the ancient world. Sicilian Style Eggplant Pizza reflects those influences. You won’t find this pizza on the menu at American pizzerias. Americans love meat. The top selling pizza is pepperoni not eggplant. High saturated ...
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Basic Pizza Sauce
Basic Pizza Sauce is a simple, low fat, pizza sauce recipe for two 12″ to 14″ pizzas. Adjust all seasonings to taste.
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Boiled Potato Salad or Side Vegetable
Potatoes are inexpensive, one of the best sources of potassium, and provide many other essential nutrients. Boiled Potato Salad or Side Vegetable is very low in calories compared to fried potatoes, potato chips, mashed potatoes, and other prepared potatoes. You get the health benefits of potatoes without the calories and sodium. ...
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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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Pasta With Sardine Sauce
Pasta with sardine sauce is a variation on the theme of southern Italian pasta served with a seafood tomato sauce. Tuna is a common seafood ingredient, but if you are concerned about mercury levels in tuna you can substitute any seafood. Anchovies are popular in Italy, but many Americans loath the super salty canned variety ...
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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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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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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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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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Pasta with Vegetables
Pasta with Vegetables is a typical Apulian blend of pasta and fresh vegetables rarely found on Italian-American restaurant menus. Why settle for a 470 calorie pasta dish with up to 9 grams of fiber when you can have a 2,000 calorie Fettuccine Alfredo with over a days worth of saturated fat ...
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