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Cooking Light, Fresh Fast Food Weeknight Meals PDF

591 Pages·2011·5.52 MB·English
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Cooking Light fresh food fast weeknight meals welcome Busy weekdays call for low-key weeknights and a chance to relax and enjoy a home-cooked dinner with family and friends. That’s why we’ve created Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast Weeknight Meals, a collection of over 280 5-ingredient, 15-minute recipes guaranteed to transform a few fresh ingredients into a tantalizing meal—fast! With this cookbook in hand, you’ll be armed with strategic ways to cook smarter, make the most of your precious time, and—best of all— ensure that your efforts deliver incredibly delightful dishes night after night. Each healthy recipe meets at least one of these two criteria: It requires five ingredients or less (excluding water, cooking spray, salt, pepper, and optional ingredients) or it can be prepared in 15 minutes or less. And many fit the bill for both! Within these pages, we’ll give you the inside track about what quick-cooking ingredients to purchase and which flavor-enhancing techniques to use so that you’ll never have to sacrifice taste and nutrition to save time. Jam-packed with 140 complete menus and 25 desserts—with a mouthwatering photo of each—we hope this cookbook will bring exciting new recipes to your weeknight repertoire and that you will discover how easy it can be to make healthy taste great! The Cooking Light Editors Contents Welcome Soups Always satisfying, these soups taste like they’ve simmered all day and are the perfect quick-fix comfort-food solution. Sandwiches Simplify dinner with hearty burgers, pitas, sandwiches, and wraps. Try Turkey Cobb Salad Roll-Ups, featuring rich avocado, or a pressed sandwich slathered with homemade pesto. Salads With fresh seasonal produce, the possibilities are endless for a crisp and refreshing main-dish salad. Turn to these recipes for an appetizing dinner or lunch-to-go. Meatless Main Grains, pastas, soy products, beans, eggs, and vegetables are the filling and versatile stars of these tempting, protein-packed dishes. Fish & Shellfish The ultimate “fast foods”—with short cook times and flavors that are hard to beat —these dishes offer a healthy option for weeknight fare. Meats Topped with robust sauces, flavorful toppings, and vibrant seasonings, you won’t go wrong with this selection of beef, pork, and lamb. Poultry Whether you start with a cooked rotisserie chicken or a quick-cooking chicken breast, these dishes come together in a flash. Desserts Satisfy your sweet tooth’s cravings with decadent cakes, puddings, pies, tarts, parfaits, frosty treats, and fruit desserts. Suppertime Shortcuts Nutritional Analysis Metric Equivalents Soups Smoky Black Bean Soup with Avocado-Lime Salsa Zesty Spinach Soup French Onion Soup Mole Chili Ham and Butternut Squash Soup Greens, Beans, and Bacon Soup Jamaican Red Beans and Rice Soup Sweet Pea Soup with Bacon Sweet Potato Soup with Pancetta-Rosemary Croutons Southern Camp Stew Chicken-Vegetable-Barley Soup Ginger Chicken Soup Chicken Egg Drop Soup Chicken Florentine Soup Spicy Chipotle-Turkey Chili Provençal Fish Stew Coconut Shrimp Soup Smoky Black Bean Soup with Avocado-Lime Salsa The rich avocado topping is the secret ingredient in this recipe. It soothes the slow burn from the smoky chipotle heat and adds a burst of fresh flavor. Prep: 3 minutes • Cook: 15 minutes 1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 cup water 1 (14.5-ounce) can fire-roasted diced tomatoes, undrained 1 ⁄2 cup chipotle salsa 1 teaspoon ground cumin Avocado-Lime Salsa Reduced-fat sour cream (optional) 1. Place beans in a medium saucepan. Mash beans slightly with a potato masher. Stir in water and next 3 ingredients. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat; reduce heat, and simmer 8 minutes. Uncover, and cook 2 minutes or until soup is slightly thickened. Ladle soup evenly into each of 4 bowls; top evenly with Avocado-Lime Salsa, and, if desired, sour cream. Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 1 cup soup and ⁄4 cup salsa). CALORIES 172; FAT 5.7g (sat 0.9g, mono 3.4g, poly 0.8g); PROTEIN 7.4g; CARB 29.7g; FIBER 11g; CHOL 0mg; IRON 3.1mg; SODIUM 572mg; CALC 60mg Avocado-Lime Salsa Prep: 5 minutes 1 cup diced peeled avocado 1 lime 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro 1 ⁄ teaspoon salt 8 1. Place avocado in a small bowl. Grate rind from lime and squeeze juice to 1 measure ⁄ teaspoon and 1 tablespoon, respectively; add to avocado. Add 2 1 cilantro and salt. Toss gently. Yield: 1 cup (serving size: ⁄ cup). 4 CALORIES 55; FAT 5.2g (sat 0.8g, mono 3.2g, poly 0.7g); PROTEIN 0.7g; CARB 2.9g; FIBER 1.7g; CHOL 0mg; IRON 0.4mg; SODIUM 76mg; CALC 5mg

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