Archive for November, 2009
Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 1/2 cup fat free half & half
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 3 medium onions chopped
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 cups frozen vegetables (corn, carrots, peas, etc.)
- 1.5 cups cooked chicken breast
- 1 package (6 oz) refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425
- Spray 3 quart dish with cooking spray
- Combine broth, half and half, flour, mustard and pepper until well blended and set aside
- Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium high heat
- Add onion and allow to carmelize
- Add garlic and thyme and cook for a minute
- Add mixed vegetables and cook until heated through
- Add broth-half and half mixture and bring to boil
- Allow to thicken slightly
- Pour into baking dish
- Arrange biscuits on top
- Bake 10-15 minutes until biscuits are golden brown
Cooking time (duration): 35
Number of servings (yield): 4
Culinary tradition: USA (Traditional)
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Fire Roasted Bolognese Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1/4 pound shitake mushrooms, stems removed
- 1 leek thinly sliced
- 3 cloves minced garlic
- 3/4 pound ground beef
- 1 can (28oz) diced fire roasted tomatoes
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Heat oil in a skillet over medium high heat
- Add mushrooms, leak & garlic and cook until softened
- Add the beef, crumbling it, until browned
- Add tomatoes, wine & salt
- Bring to a boil
- Reduce heat and simmer until sauce thickens
Notes
*Serve over whole wheat pasta. *May top with grated parmesan and/or chopped basil
Cooking time (duration): 15 – 30
Diet (other): Low calorie, Reduced fat
Number of servings (yield): 4
Meal type: dinner
Culinary tradition: Italian
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Weight Watchers Meat Loaf
Ingredients
- 4 tbs Worcestershire sauce
- 3 lbs ground beef
- 1/4 tsp thyme
- 1tsp basil
- 1 large onion diced and sweated
- 1 & 1/2 c tomato sauce
- 4 tbs brown sugar
- 4 tbs chopped fresh parsley
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 c quick cooking oats
Instructions
- If Sunday, invite Roan over.
- Preheat oven to 350
- Combine 1c tomato sauce, onion, parsley, brown sugar, salt, pepper, worchester sauce.
- Stir well.
- Add meat and oats. Stir just until blended.
- Perforate bottoms of 2 cheap foil pans.
- Coat with cooking spray
- Shape mixture into pans, place on a rack over a cookie sheet (to catch the fat)
- Brush remaining 1/2 cup tomato sauce over meat loaf
- Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until done.
- Let stand 10 minutes before slicing
- Cut into 12 slices
Notes
WW Points: 5 points
Number of servings (yield): 6
Culinary tradition: USA (Traditional)
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Beef & Fruit Pie
Based on a recipe from Guenievre
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion finely chopped
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Bonnefons Good spice mixture
- 1 medium apple finely chopped
- 1/2 cup raisins, chopped
- 1/2 cup beef stock
- 1/4 cup sherry or port
- 3 Egg yolks
- Cooking spray
- 3 store bought prepared pie crusts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Carmelize the onion then remove from the pan and set aside.
- Brown ground beef adding spice mixture as it cooks.
- Add apple and onion to beef and cook for another minute.
- Add the raisins, stock, sherry and egg yolks and cook until just begging to boil..
- Remove beef mix from heat and let cool.
- Coat a pie dish or a spring form pan with cooking spray.
- Line the pie dish / spring form pan with pie crust.
- Fill the pie dish with the meat mixture.
- Cover the pie pan with the remaining pie crust, crimp edges with a fork, and cut a couple of small vent slots.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown and delicious.
- Cool before serving.
Cooking time (duration): 45
Number of servings (yield): 12
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Chicken Enchiladas with Salsa Verde
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts
- Non-stick cooking spray
- 1 1/2 cups salsa verde
- 12 six inch tortillas
- 3/4cup part-skim ricotta cheese
- 3/4cup shredded reduced fat Monterry Jack cheese
- 1/2cup chopped fresh cilantro
Instructions
- Boil the chick for ~15 minutes then cool and shred.
- Spray a 9×13″ baking dish with non-stick spray.
- Put the salsa in a shallow plate.
- Dip both sides of a tortilla in the salsa.
- Top the tortilla with ~1/4cup of the chicken, ~1 tablespoon of the ricotta, and ~1/2 tablespoon of the Monterrey Jack cheese.
- Fold in the ends and roll the tortillathen place it seem side down in the baking dish.
- Repeat for remaining tortillas and chicken.
- Pour remaining salsa and Monterrey Jack cheese over the enchiladas.
- cover with plastic wrap and vent one corner.
- Microwave on high for five minutes until the cheese is melted and the enchiladas are heated through.
- Sprinkle with the cilantro.
- WW Points: 7
Notes
- We use a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket and shred the meat off of it.
- We use a generic Mexican mix of part skim pre-shredded cheese.
- We don’t add the cilantro.
Cooking time (duration): 20
Number of servings (yield): 6
Culinary tradition: Mexican
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