Recipes and Posts Tagged chicken

Quinoa Chicken Salad

Quinoa and Chicken Salad Recipe

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Quinoa and Chicken Salad is an easy, gluten free alternative to macaroni salad. It has sliced olives, onion, bell peppers, marinated artichoke hearts, and a pinch of red pepper flakes for heat, but you can add or omit ingredients to your taste. Serve Quinoa and Chicken Salad with BBQ, fried or ...

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Gluten Free Gumbo

Gluten Free Gumbo

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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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File Gumbo

Chicken & Shrimp File Gumbo

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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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Homemade Chicken Soup with Pasta and Meatballs

Chicken Soup

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Whether you are healthy or have a cold, chicken soup is nutritious and can be served a variety of ways. In Italy, miniature meatballs, thin pasta or both are added. Tortellini and ravioli are cooked and served in chicken soup or broth for added flavor. Nutrition values are for soup ...

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BBQ Chicken Meal

Barbecue (BBQ) Sauce

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Making homemade BBQ Sauce takes only minutes. While it does not have the shelf-life of prepared sauces with preservatives, it does have up to 40 percent less sugar and up to 80 percent less sodium. This BBQ Sauce is perfect on beef, chicken or pork, or can be used for ...

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French Onion Soup Made with Beef and Chicken Broth

French Onion Soup

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French Onion soup is one of the simplest soups you can make. This recipe produces a rich, flavorful broth packed with sweet cooked high antioxident onions. Nutrition Information Nutrition information is for soup without bread or cheese. One slice of bread adds 100 or more calories and 1 ounce (28 g) ...

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Meat and Vegetable Soup

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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Chicken with Homemade Italian Sausage Stuffing

Baked Chicken with Italian Sausage Stuffing


Stuffed fowl has been an Italian favorite since ancient Rome. You can make and cook this stuffing separately, or use it to stuff chicken, turkey, duck, or goose. This recipe makes about 4 cups of stuffing enough for 1 to 2 chickens depending on cavity size or a small turkey (12 ...

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Homemade Pasta Alfredo Primavera

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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Cinco de Mayo Burrito/Chimichanga Recipe

By: Daniel | Comments Off on Cinco de Mayo Burrito/Chimichanga Recipe | | Category: Entree | Tags : , , ,

My mother was raised in Italy on home cooked Italian food, but appreciated cuisines of all cultures including Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Greek and Mexican to name a few. One of her favorite recipes was chicken and bean burritos. They were easy to make, could be frozen and tasted great even ... more

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