Recipe Type: Quick Meals

Fried Mortadella (bologna) & Sautéed Onions Sandwich

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Bologna is one on America’s favorite cold cuts. Then someone decided to fry a slice of bologna for a hot sandwich. The rest, as they say, is history. Bologna is an Americanized version of mortadella, an Italian cured sausage originating in Bologna, Italy. Their are two main differences between mortadella ...

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Easy Pan Fried Fish Fillet

10 Minute Pan-Fried Fish


It doesn’t have to take hours of preparation and cooking to enjoy a healthy home cooked meal. You can have Pan-Fried fish fillets on your table in about 10 minutes including prep time! Unlike deep fried fish that can take 15 minutes or more to heat the oil, this low ...

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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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One Pan Pasta Margherita With Spicy Italian Sausage

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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Taco Lettuce Wrap

Taco Lettuce Wraps

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Taco Lettuce wraps can cut calories by up to 50 percent by replacing fried corn taco shells with low calorie, fat and sodium lettuce leaves. You can use any variety of head or leaf lettuce. Nutrition values are about the same for head and leaf lettuce. Calories for this recipe are ...

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Pasta Margherita with Grilled Chicken

One-Pan Pasta Margherita With Chicken


Margherita refers to an Italian style pizza made with fresh mozzarella, tomato and basil that Queen Margherita supposedly preferred over two other Neapolitan pizzas prepared in her honor. A pasta recipe made with just basil, tomato sauce and mozzarella would be a bit boring, but it doesn’t take many more ingredients ...

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Vegetable Fried Rice

Vegetable Fried Rice


Vegetable Fried Rice is usually offered as an entree menu item at most Chinese restaurants that can be eaten as a side dish instead of steam rice. It takes a few more minutes of preparation and cooking, but is worth the effort. It turns low fiber white rice into higher ...

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Chicken Fajitas

10 Minute Skillet Fajitas


Hola! Fajitas are a popular Tex-Mex recipe that originated using grilled skirt steak. You can make 10 Minute Skillet Fajitas using grilled skirt or other steak like rib-eye or tenderloin or chicken. Shrimp fajitas are also popular. This simple recipe is based on the original concept. For added flavor the ...

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Oven Baked Flour Tortilla Chips

Oven-Baked Flour Tortilla Chips

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Oven Baked Flour Tortilla Chips make light, crispy chips for dips, Taco Salads, or you can cut tortillas into strips for soups. While these oven-fried chips are low in calories and fat, flour tortillas can be high in sodium compared to corn tortillas. So check the nutrition label if you ...

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One-Pan Noodles With Bacon and Peas

One-Pan Pasta With Bacon


One-Pan Pasta with Bacon is another in a series of one-pan meals that takes about the same time to prepare and cook as popular boxed pasta meals, but without the preservatives, MSG, and artificial colors and flavors. This simple pasta entree or side dish has 220 calories and 2 grams of saturated fat ...

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