Recipe Type: Vegetarian
Creamy Pasta And Mushrooms
Many fad diet plans eliminate white pasta for overweight and obese Americans. The rational is refined white pasta can cause blood glucose (sugar) spikes. That’s true if you eat a plate of pasta without sauce or any other foods. This simple Creamy Pasta And Mushroom recipe provides 5 grams of ...
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Vegetarian Stuffed Bell Peppers
Vegetarian Stuffed Bell Peppers is a meatless version of Italian Stuffed Peppers. You can use any size or color bell pepper for this recipe. One-half large stuffed bell pepper can be a meal in its self providing about 12 ounces of food, 11 grams of protein, and only 290 calories. This ...
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Pan-Fried Zucchini
Pan-fried zucchini takes an American favorite and cuts calories by up to 60 percent. This is accomplished by reducing the amount of breading and pan-frying versus deep frying. Americans love affair with zucchini began in the 1980’s with the introduction of deep fried zucchini as an appetizer. Most Americans will ...
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Caramelized Onions
Restaurants can charge a premium for a side of caramelized onions. Caramelization, brings out the natural sugars in onions, converting pungent, sulfurous onions into a melt in your mouth, sweet delicacy. The same is done by roasting garlic. Cooking not only makes many foods more digestible, but also more flavorful. ...
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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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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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20 Minute Pasta With Zucchini
Overweight Americans are told to reduce or eliminate refined carbohydrates (white flour, rice, and sugar) from their diet. This includes most dry pastas even though billions of people eat pasta made from refined white flour and white rice daily and are not overweight or obese. Pasta eaten alone and raw ...
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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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Easy Potato Salad
Easy Potato Salad is a simple recipe you can make using red, white, or Yukon Gold potatoes. You can make it with or without the potato skins. Adding eggs is optional. The only cooking and cutting is the eggs and potatoes. Onion powder replaces fresh onion. You can add different ...
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Caramel Apple Dessert Or Side-dish
Caramel Apple Dessert provides a bit of sweetness to any meal without the calories and saturated fat of apple pie and other high calorie desserts. I originally came across this recipe while filming an episode of Fast Food OR for my YouTube Channel featuring a frozen meatloaf meal included caramel apples. ...
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