Fresh Produce Recipes

Very easy to prep and cook! This turns out juicy every single time.

I found this recipe on recipezaar.com, but it was a higher fat and calorie version. The original recipe was posted by Tish and it's Baked Sweet Potato recipe #55678 on 'Zaar. Anyway, I had to make some significant substitutions to make the fat and calorie counts more diet friendly. It worked and this turned out fantastic! We served this with lean country style pork ribs and they were amazingly good. I think this would also pair well with Salmon.

Juice fruit

Cranberry Relish is very refreshing in the summer. An excellent accompaniment to a Thanksgiving turkey, and a lovely side dish for most any pork or turkey sandwich.

This is a quick and easy way to fix fresh summer produce from your garden, farmers market or the grocery store.

This is full of lots of produce and tastes soo fresh (due to the extra cilantro added)

For a filling and fresh lunch, combine mango, turkey, and spinach!

Great Appetizer or Dessert Topping

This dish is easy to prepare - mix all ingredients (and salt and/or pepper to taste) and marinate with chicken for 10 minutes up to 24 hours before (refrigerate if marinating more than 20 minutes). For Honey, note that 1 tbsp = 3 tsp (i.e. 2/3 tbsp = 2 tsp). Feel free to substitute seasonings to taste.

Recommend preparing this for a family or, for multiple meals to be used in salads, with pasta, veggies and more.

This is an easy to make produce washing solution that helps to dissolve pesticides and fertilizer off your food. It is gentle and effective for all fruits and veggies. (Especially soft and hard-to-wash items, such as strawberries.) And, it is also safe to ingest because it's made of natural ingredients.

In just 30 minutes, you can have a light dinner entree that's packed with protein and fresh produce. Serve this sweet and savory salmon with a green salad and brown rice for a well-rounded meal.

One of my Christmas day special treats for dinner. I allowed myself to indulge in expensive, fresh produce for all my favorites. This is a version of sauteed sugar snap peas, using minimal fats and replacing the normal butter with olive oil and butter flavored non-stick spray.

Jicamas are available year round and can be found in Hispanic markets and most supermarket produce aisles.

This great salsa is fresh & delicious

Great w/ roasted or grilled veggies

A tasty breakfast dish or brunch meal and a good source of beta-carotene.

ground turkey dumplings

~ Time consuming but easy & very tastey when done ~

this is a lower fat tasty version of the high fat coleslaw we are all used to at family picnics, but just as tasty

Fish roasted in a bag with lime slices and cilantro sprigs

These cookies subsitute eggs with banana, and uses whole wheat flour instead of white flour. This recipe is adapted from a recipe from COSMOGIRL magazine.

This great served with lettuce, chopped tomatos and reduced fat sour cream

This recipe makes a half batch of my favorite potluck dish--perfect for a weeknight dinner.

We used to make this all the time with brats and grill the onions in the drippings of the brats. Granted we would get lower fat brats, but they were still brats. This is very very tasty and filled me up with 4.5 servings of 1 cup each. Guys may want 3 servings of 1 1/2 cup each, but that changes the nutritional values to 328.4 calories, 12.5 fat, 29.8 carbs and 23.8 protein.

A very quick and easy recipe with the end product beautiful light scones best eaten straight from the oven.

Just add mushroom soup, and dry onion soup mix. Best done in the slow cooker.

This low-cal pizza recipe gives you the ooey-gooey taste you love -- without the fat.

Great for pasta, bread, recipes, etc.

A light and low-carb lunch.

This is a slight tweaking of a recipe I found on restaurantwidow.com. I tried to minimize the salt to keep the sodium levels in check. It came out delicious! My 5-yr-old couldn't stop eating them, when I made it for the first time yesterday, and she is already begging me to make it again. They are the perfect snack because they are full of nutrients with hardly any calories; they taste delicious, and have a very satisfying crunch. If you've never tried kohlrabi, you don't know what you're missing!