How to make your recipes a bit more healthy - Fettuccine Alfredo

November 15, 2008 3:33 pm by Catherine Morgan in Food

Any recipe you have can be made a bit healthier. Let's use my World Famous Fettuccine Alfredo recipe as an example of how easy it can be.
If I'm not mistaken, Fettuccine Alfredo is one of the worst foods you can eat for good health...But it's also yummy.

How do you make the most unhealthy recipe healthy? Start by replacing a few ingredients with lower calorie and lower fat ingredients...

• Replace mozzarella cheese with part-skim mozzarella.
• Replace ricotta cheese with part-skim ricotta cheese.
• Replace cream with skim or low-fat milk.

For an even more healthy Fettuccine Alfredo, add some healthy food to it...

• Chicken
• Shrimp
• Broccoli
• Spinach
• Flaxseed

So, we just made an unhealthy recipe into a healthy one. Do you have a favorite recipe that you could turn into your favorite healthy recipe?

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Substitute with whole grain pasta!

Cherre November 15, 2008 - 8:33pm

That's my easiest, simplest substitution for this and any pasta meal. There's pasta made of whole wheat, or brown rice, or quinoa, or kamut...so many healthy choices. I really like the Eden brand Kamut pasta. In fact I just did I post here, on how to make ho-hum tomato sauce into something that will make you healthy, happy and yummified!

http://doesabodygood.blogspot.com/2008/11/vegan-ragu-or-tribute-to-growing-up.html

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You had me at "Alfredo"

tisha85 November 15, 2008 - 11:59pm

Yum. Fettucine Alfredo is one of my favorite foods. I'll have to give it a whirl with the calorie-friendly suggestions you made. I've also made it with low fat cream cheese, parm cheese, and skim milk combined and heated in the microwave. Delish.

Tisha
A Blob Blog
www.tallensweightloss.blogspot.com

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As a diabetic, I'm always

MrsWsKitchen November 17, 2008 - 6:14am

As a diabetic, I'm always looking for ways to make dishes healthier. I like replacing mashed potatoes with a white bean puree, but when that just won't do, I mix white beans into the mashed potatoes--lightens the load for me and my husband doesn't always have to go without his taters.

I, too, have my own version of Alfredo. I don't use mozz or ricotta, either. Just a creamy pamesan sauce, using olive oil, onions & garlic, parmesan cheese, skim milk and arrowroot powder as a thickener. Delicious tossed with whole-grain pasta with lots of veggies!

Lasagne can be easily remade with lower fat ricotta, skip the meat and layer in vegetables. Better yet, layer your creation with zucchini and eggplant slices instead of noodles. That's yummy, too.

Amanda
Mrs.W's Kitchen

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How to make your recipes a bit more healthy - Fettuccine Alfredo