Recipe Type: Vegetarian
Oven-Fried Potatoes
Frying potatoes can be hit or miss. Frying adds calories and the end result can be limp, greasy potatoes. There is also cleaning up the oily mess that result’s when frying foods. Oven fried potatoes take only minutes to prepare, can be made using Russet, red, or white potatoes, and ...
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Oven Roasted Carrots
Oven Roasted Carrots is easy to make and a perfect side dish for meat, fish or poultry. Roasting brings out the sweetness in carrots. These tender, sweet roasted carrots can disappear in minutes so think about doubling the recipe. Sodium Carrots are naturally low in sodium, but some baby carrots, ...
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Boiled Corn On The Cob
It takes only minutes to cook corn on the cob. Corn is one of the fastest cooking whole grains. Corn is at its best and sweetest during the summer. You know corn is abundant when stores advertise 3, 4, 6, and even 10 ears for $1. Yes, corn on the ...
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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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Italian Style Vegetables
Southern Italian cooking is rustic, home cooking using simple, high quality ingredients. At it’s simplest this recipe has 5 ingredients; vegetable, salt, olive oil, garlic, and black pepper. When make with green beans, it is a low calorie alternate to green bean casserole. This simple Italian Style Vegetable recipe can ...
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Chicken & Shrimp File Gumbo
Gumbo is a Cajun soup or stew you can make dozens of different ways. Gumbos are usually made using chicken or seafood, but you can omit the meat for a vegetarian gumbo. Many gumbos start with a rue, a mixture of cooked flour and oil, for flavor and thickening. This ...
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Eggplant Parmigiano Recipe
Whether you call it Parmigiana, Parmesan or Parmigiano, this baked casserole of layered batter fried eggplant, tomato sauce and egg/cheese mixture melts in your mouth compared to the fried sliced eggplant served by many Italian-American restaurants. This eggplant parmigiano recipe can also be used substituting zucchini or artichoke hearts for ...
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Meat Minestrone Soup
Meat Minestrone Soup is one of my favorite soups. A 16-ounce serving has about 400 calories, 9 grams of fiber, and 19 grams of protein. Although this recipe has a long list of ingredients, you can prepare and cook it in about one hour. Adding pasta is optional. When you ...
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Broccoli and Rice
The recipe for Broccoli with Rice came from Portuguese friends. It is a simple blend of cooked fresh or frozen broccoli combined with your favorite rice (white, jasmine, basmati, brown, wild or combination). You adjust the ratio of broccoli to rice to your taste. Broccoli is a low calorie vegetable ...
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Aloo Saag Italiano
Aloo Saag is a vegetarian East Indian recipe of spinach and potatoes. This low calorie version adds yellow summer squash for additional color. You can substitute zucchini for the yellow squash. Adjust the ratio of potatoes, spinach, and squash to your taste.
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