Italian Recipes (Most Popular)
These individual lasagna loafs/cupcakes/cups are great for portioning and use low fat ingredients. (The pack of wrappers I use lists 3 wraps per serving, so for recipe/calculation purposes I round to 4.5 to get closer to the actual calories per "cup.")
Super quick and tasty minestrone soup! I could not find a recipe that used a bouillon cube, so I borrowed the basic idea and created my own with canned veggies. The sodium count may be a bit high, but I added the nutrition info exactly as it appears on the cans, but I always rinse my beans and veggies before I use them, so hopefully that cuts some salt out :) Also, I add the brand names of everything I use, because I have noticed calorie counts differ slightly. Feel free to use what you like (Jewel is a grocery store in my area, so when you see that, you know I shop off-brands as well) :) And a final FYI - I like a lot of stuff and less soup, so please don't expect that there will be enough broth to cover the entire veggie mix, so either use less pasta and only 1 can of veggies, or add more water and possibly another bouillon cube.
One night I had left over bbq vegetables so I decided to do an egg white bake with some other leftover ingredients in the fridge. It was wonderful!
I modified this recipe to include some flour for thickening the stew, but the original comes from the Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine by Jeff Smith.
This dish is very good served with crusty Italian bread, buttered noodles, or just on its own.
I love the taste of the fresh herbs in this. I have several pots growing on my kitchen windowsill that I use for everything. This adds quite a bit to the flavour.
If you want really fresh from scratch flavour, you can use fresh tomatoes as well, but remember to add about 20 mins to the cooking time of the sauce.
This was originally a Publix recipe that I altered just a bit by adding more vegetables and using Dreamfield pasta instead of regular pasta. Dreamfield pasta, if you aren't familiar with it, is very diabetic friendly, with a low glycemic value. Pasta was something that had all but been cut out of our lives, both of us being diabetics, but no more. Total cooking and prep time, about 30 minutes if you chop the veggies yourself (instead of buying them already prepared).
From Superfoods by Dolores Riccio (Warner Books), for About.com
I adapted this recipe rom Hungry Girl. It is for the chicken only (does not include sauce and cheese)
Ligurian-style focaccia flatbread made with nutritious chickpea (besan) flour. Recipe adapted from VegNews, Sept+Oct 2009 issue, page 64-65. Olives and sun-dried tomatoes omitted here for their sodium content.
Rachel Ray's Pasta Puttanesca recipe. Just like I had at a fancy Italian restaurant I went to last month! :o) Can make it a meal by adding grilled chicken breast. Nutritional count does not include added chicken or cheese garnish.
A take on chicken cacciatore with more vegetables and less fat. Cut up the veggies and dump everything in the crockpot before you leave for work, and dinner will be ready when you get home!
I revamped a recipe I found online to make it more diet friendly. OMG was it good!
Delicious Low Fat Meatballs - my sons can't tell I substituted Turkey for Ground Beef!
Very easy meal. A bag of spinach, eggs, and some Parmesan is all you need. You can change the spinach with any vegetable.
Rotini salad with artichokes, black olives, peppers, tomatoes and a balsamic dressing.