Recipe Type: Entree

Entree recipes.

Homemade Fresh Tomato Sauce

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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Tequila Lime Shrimp Taco

Tequila Lime Shrimp Tacos and Tostadas

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Quick, simple, delicious tequila lime shrimp tacos and tostadas are so easy to make and you won’t find them on the menu at most Mexican restaurants. Just marinate peeled and deveined raw shrimp in tequila, lime juice, and oil for 10 to 15 minutes, and then grill them to moist, tender perfection ...

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Pasta Fagioli With Turkey Sausage Sauce

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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Ginger Beef

Ginger Beef


Americanized Chinese food has gotten a bad rap lately for being high in calories and sodium, and not the healthy food Americans make it out to be. So what’s new? Isn’t that the way it is with all Americanized ethnic foods? Americans expect large portions at low prices and restaurants are than ...

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Curried Beef, Poultry or Seafood

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Curried Beef, is a simple Chinese style recipe you can make with beef, chicken, pork, fish, seafood or any combination. You can also omit or substitute tofu (bean curd) for the meat for a vegan or vegetarian recipe. Curried Beef has the intense flavor of an Asian curry with quick cooking, ...

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Spicy Chicken Kabobs

Spicy Chicken Kabobs (kebobs)


Whether you spell it kabob or kebob, these easy, nutritious, low calorie, reduced sodium, quick cooking, colorful, recipe is a special treat you can serve anytime and for any occasion. Spicy chicken kabobs have a bit of heat, about 350 calories and 54 grams of protein per kabob. Make the marinade mild, medium, or spicy ...

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Easy Pan-Fried Catfish


Fried catfish is a southeastern favorite. Tradition recipes dip the fish fillets in milk or buttermilk, dredge in self-rising cornmeal, and fry the fillets in several inches of oil. This simple variation, based on my pan-fried fish recipe, takes only minutes to prepare and uses only enough oil to brown the ...

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Oven Blackened Fish

Oven Blackened Fish


Oven Blackened Fish is for people who like Cajun-style blackened fish but don’t like the smoke or mess of pan blackening the fish. Some method for cooking blackened fish are dangerous for the novice cook, and who wants to thrown out a good piece of fish? You can use your ...

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Homemade Madras Lentils

Madras Lentils


Madras Lentils is a spicy Indian recipe packed with healthy, high fiber tomatoes, lentils, and beans. Prepared versions like the one pictured below have about 500 mg of sodium per 5 oz. serving. For rich flavor without adding more salt, increase the amount of spices. Prepared Madras Lentils, as shown ...

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Batter Fried Fish with Steak Fries

Batter Fried Seafood


Batter Fried Seafood has been around for over a hundred years. Fish and chips is a popular English pub and American restaurant meals. Even decades after the Roman Catholic Church lifted the ban on eating meat (beef and pork) on Fridays, Friday Fish Fries are still popular throughout the United States. ...

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