List of Recipes


Pasta With Mushroom Pesto Sauce

Pasta With Chicken Mushroom Pesto Sauce


Pasta With Mushroom Pesto Sauce flavors pasta with basil pesto instead of tomato sauce. Although pesto is higher in calories due to the cheese and oil, a little goes a long way. For some people, pesto made using only basil has too strong a flavor. You can make a bright ...

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Teriyaki Marinade & Sauce

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Teriyaki chicken, beef, and seafood are popular quick serve and casual restaurant items. Soy sauce is a major ingredients that is high in sodium. So, most teriyaki style foods are high sodium foods. Foods served teriyaki style can also be high in sugar. This Japanese style teriyaki marinade and sauce obtains ...

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Saffron Rice

Saffron Rice


A little saffron turns plain white rice into pale to bright yellow saffron rice. Saffron also adds a mild flavor to rice. Using white rice is essential for the color to be absorbed into the rice. Saffron rice can be served with any recipe that called for white rice. Saffron ...

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Cucumber-Tomato Salad

Cucumber, Tomato & Olive Salad

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For many Americans, a salad is iceberg lettuce, tomato, cucumber and salad dressing. A good size salad made from the first three ingredients has about 200 calories. Four tablespoons of creamy salad dressing can add 400 or more calories. The dressing adds flavor but very few nutrients. While 600 or ...

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Fish With Tomato & Corn Salsa

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Simple Fish With Tomato & Corn Salsa takes less than 20 minutes to make and has less then 300 calories per serving. Although the recipe uses pan-fried fish, you can substitute broiled or grilled fish. Each cooking method is low fat and produces a slightly different flavor. You can try ...

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250 Calorie Chicken or Turkey Pot Pie

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Pot pies are comfort food. Fast food and casual restaurants serve them, and your grocer’s frozen food isle carries several brands and sizes. But this comfort food can come with more calories and sodium than most people need. Most of the calories and fat in conventional pot pies are in the ...

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Beef and Turkey Meatballs

Beef and Turkey Meatballs


You can use Beef and Turkey Meatballs in any recipes calling for meatballs like spaghetti and meatballs, meatball sandwich and meatballs served with tomato or other sauce. Small meatballs (1/2 to 3/4 inch) are perfect in soups, as a pizza topping or served as an appetizer. Replacing pork with 93% ...

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Oven Roasted Zucchini

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Zucchini is about 90 percent water and very low in calories. Oven Roasted Zucchini is a quick, easy recipe you can make using your oven or toaster oven depending on the amount. While over 75 percent of the calories are from fat, most of the fat is monounsaturated if you ...

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Coconut Shrimp

Easy Gluten-Free Coconut Shrimp


Coconut shrimp is a popular appetizer and entree in the United States. The coconut provides a sweet crispness to succulent shrimp. Easy Coconut Shrimp recipe is gluten free and has less calories than most coconut shrimp recipes by replacing tempura  or other batter with beaten egg white. Prep time takes ...

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One-Pan Chinese Shrimp and Vegetables

One-Pan Chinese-Style Shrimp & Vegetables


Chinese and other Asian foods can be very low calorie. A 10 ounce (270 g) serving of One-Pan Chinese-Style Shrimp & Vegetables has less than 300 calories and takes about 30 minutes to prepare and cook. This recipe using frozen Chinese-style stir fry vegetables. In the United States there are two ...

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