Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking
Tags: healthy low fat low calorie
Recipe Review
Queezle_Sister from Salt Lake City, UT
Flavor-wise, this probably is a 3. However, because of the excellent instructions and low calorie nature of this dish, I raised it.
The sauce used a clever approach. Garlic is first sautéed in 1T olive oil, then 3/4 C stock is added to the garlic. This is cooked for about 5 minutes - which infused the broth with a good garlic flavor. Toward the end of the pasta cooking time, the greens are added to the garlic stock, and braised.
When the pasta is done, it is tossed with lemon zest and lemon juice. Then the sauce and greens are added, tossed, and a bit of salt and pepper added. And a bit of Parmesan cheese and parsley.
For 262 calories, and knowing the nutritional value of all those greens, this is very decent.
My variations (due to necessity): I used mixed greens, not just chard. Kale, spinach, chard, and red beet greens - this gave the pasta a pink color, but that was OK. And I didn't have any parsley.
Comments
southerncooker - 16th June 2012
Sounds really good and looks great. I have this book and forgot about it. Thanks for the review now I can pull this on off the shelf and look for some more recipes to fit into my new way of eating.
Queezle_Sister - 16th June 2012
I picked this book up at a yard sale, and have not spent too much time looking through it. There are lots of recipes, though, and I thought this one seemed clever. I'll be glad to see your reviews, and I'm happy that so many of us are interested in healthy foods.
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