Recipes and Posts Tagged broccoli
One-Pan Chicken Divan With Rice
Chicken Divan is a French-American creation first served in the early 20th century. Like many French dishes, healthy chicken and broccoli was paired with a not so healthy high saturated fat Mornay sauce made with cheese and egg yokes. You may wonder why the French can eat rich sauces and ...
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For many Americans, lean meals means popping a petite 300 calorie, 6-ounce entree into the microwave oven. I can’t help but wonder, reviewing the negative online ratings for many of these entrees, how companies can continue to sell them. Have millions of Americans sacrificed quality and quanity for convenience? Apparently ... more
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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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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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Stir Fried Shrimp and Broccoli
Many Americans associate Chinese-American restaurant meals as a health alternative to standard American cuisines. Unless you choose wisely, Chinese restaurant meals can have as many calories as a steak dinner or fast food meal. Stir Fried Shrimp and Broccoli is a simple, quick, nutritious, and delicious combination of fresh shrimp, broccoli, ...
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Rapini and Pasta
Pasta with vegetables like this recipe for Rapini and Pasta is a common southern Italian recipe, but don’t look for it on the menu at your local Italian-American restaurant. Like endive and other greens, rapini has a slightly bitter flavor and is an acquired taste. Rapini, also known as cime ...
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Pasta Alfredo Primavera
Pasta Alfredo Primavera adds vegetables and meat protein to traditional Italian-American Alfredo sauce made with butter and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese reducing calories and saturated fat per serving. Restaurant Alfredo sauce can also be very high in sodium providing 1 to 2 days worth. You can make Alfredo sauce in the ...
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