Recipe Type: Pasta & Rice
Pasta & Rice
30 Minute Fagioli e Pasta (Beans & Macaroni)
30 Minute Fagioli e Pasta (Beans & Macaroni) uses canned or cooked beans to reduce preparation and cooking time. This southern Italian version of beans with macaroni is pasta with beans and sauce versus Italian restaurant bean soup of the same name. Like most Italian foods, there as many version of this ...
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Pasta with Seafood
Pasta with Seafood is a very simple recipe with a wine and butter seafood sauce you can prepare and cook in about 20 minutes; the time it takes to boil water and cook the pasta. Pasta with seafood is very popular along the coastal areas of Italy. Nutrition Information Nutrition information ...
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Homemade Egg Pasta
Unlike store bought dried pasta made from semolina and water, homemade egg pasta is made with all-purpose flour, eggs and if necessary a little water. It’s texture is more like egg noodles and the flavor is better than most supermarket fresh pastas. While dried pasta has no cholesterol and very low ...
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Risotto with Green Peas
Risotto originated in northern Italy and is now popular throughout Italy. Made using short grain arborio rice, it has a creamy texture unlike any other rice recipe without the need for cream or any other sauce. Risotto is rarely offered on the menu of most Italian-American restaurants. Unlike pasta that ...
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Cooking Quinoa
Quinoa is a marketed as a gluten-free whole grain. Actually, quinoa is a seed grown in south America. Quinoa is easy to prepare. The cooking method is similar to cooking rice. Quinoa is added to boiling water and then simmered until the water or broth is absorbed. High fiber and ...
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Vegetable Pilau
Vegetable Pilau is a simple, spicy, reduced sodium Indian rice dish that combines rice with vegetables and herbs that compliments meat, fish and poultry. Add or substitute your favorite vegetables like diced zucchini, eggplant, cauliflower or broccoli. Serving Suggestion Serve with in lieu of white rice and with curries (green ...
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No-Boil Vegetable Lasagna
No-Boil Vegetable Lasagna is an easy way to reduce the number of calories and saturated fat while increasing dietary fiber compared to lasagna with ricotta cheese. Dry lasagna noodles come in two varieties: traditional that should be cooked before making the lasagna and no-boil that is used dry and doesn’t require cooking. ...
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Basil Pesto
Most Americans associate Basil Pesto with pasta or pizza. Pesto is a basil based sauce originating in Genoa, Italy. Like tomato and Alfredo sauce, pesto and can be used in a variety of ways to flavor soups or stews, spread on toasted bread, add a rich basil flavor to grilled ...
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Pasta with Cauliflower and Asparagus
Pasta with fresh vegetables is as common in southern Italy as pasta with tomato sauce. More often than not in the United States, a large plate of pasta and frozen pasta meals are drenched in tomato or white sauce. Unlike low fiber Italian-American pasta dishes, one serving of Pasta with Cauliflower ...
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Gluten Free Gumbo
Gumbos are usually thickened and flavored with an oil and wheat flour rue. The oil adds calories unless you skim it off prior to serving and flour is off limits for people with celiac disease. This recipe cuts calories by limiting the amount of oil to 1 tablespoon (15 ml) ...
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