Ground Turkey Stuffed Green Peppers

I have never made or better yet ate stuffed peppers before but they have always looked interesting to me. Since I found an awesome deal at the store on green peppers and I still have tons of ground turkey in my freezer which I bought BOGO the other week, I thought I would give them a try. I found a few recipes to get an idea for one of my own and this is what I came up with.


Ingredients
 
1 C cooked brown rice 
4 large green bell peppers
1/2  large onion
1 Medium Tomato
4 Medium Mushrooms
2 Garlic Cloves
2 tsp.  Olive Oil
1 lb Ground Turkey
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Fresh ground pepper, Italian Seasoning and Garlic to taste


Makes 4 peppers at 221 Calories a pepper


Directions:


Step 1- Preheat oven to 375degrees

Step 2- If needed trim the bottom of the bell peppers so that they have a flat surface to stand on. Cut of the top of the green pepper and save for stuffing, clean out and remove seeds. Place all four hollowed-out peppers into your baking dish.  

Step 3- Dice Onion, Pepper tops, tomato, and mushrooms into small pieces. 

Step 4- Heat up two pans on two burners on the stove with 1 tsp of olive oil in each, with minced garlic clove.

Step 5- Saute Veggies in one pan and cook ground turkey in the other until it is browned. Add pepper, garlic, and Italian seasoning to both to taste.

Step 6- Mix all ingredients together in a larger bowl in order to stuff peppers OR

        If you want to portion yours correctly-

    In small bowl put 1/3 cup brown rice, 3 oz ground turkey and 1/3 cup veggies mix well and stuff pepper. Do this for all four peppers.

Step 7- Stuff each peppers with the desired amount of stuffing, use spoon to press down the mixture tightly into the pepper. 

Step 8- Top each pepper with Parmesan Cheese

Step 9- Bake peppers for 30 minutes

 Step 10- Serve, Eat and ENJOY!

 

Chicken and Spinach Lasagna Rolls

I have never thought about making lasagna before. One because I try not to eat a lot of pasta and second because it just looks so dang hard and time consuming. I have had a box of lasagna noodles in my pantry that my mother gave to me when she was cleaning out her pantry ( I guess she didn't want to try making lasagna either). 

I am obsessed with the website Pinterst.com and while doing searches for low calorie foods I came across a few recipes for Lasagna Rolls. I thought I would give them a try but play around with the recipes to make my own. I love these because not only portioned perfectly but also only 300 cal per roll.

Chicken and Spinach Lasagna Rolls

Ingredients

8 lasagna noodles, cooked

1.5 oz fresh spinach

1 cup Parmesan Cheese

1 cup 2% Mozzarella Cheese 

8 oz Low Fat Ricotta cheese

1 Egg white
8 oz Cooked Shredded Chicken

2 cloves minced garlic

32 oz Tomato Sauce
Pepper and Italian Seasoning to taste

Steps
1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Remove stems from spinach leaves and cut into small pieces.

3. Combine spinach, ricotta cheese,  1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, egg white, garlic, Italian seasoning, pepper and chicken into a large bowl.

4. Take one cup of tomato sauce and cover the bottom of a 9X13 baking dish. 

5. Make sure noodles are completely dry place one at a time on a plate, ( or on wax paper)  take 1/3 cup mixture and spread it evenly over the noodle until well covered.

6. Roll up noodle with filling inside.

7. Line up lasagna rolls into baking dish on top of tomato sauce.

8. Ladle the remaining sauce over the noodles in the backing dish and top with remaining 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese.

9. Cover baking dish tightly with aluminum foil and bake for 40 minutes. Take foil off after 20 minutes of cooking. 

10. Serve, Eat, and ENJOY! :)

Banana Bread Oatmeal

This is a perfect breakfast for fall. I love Banana Bread and so does the Hubs ( though he usually asks for chocolate chips in it) Why not save some calories and eat Banana Bread Oatmeal? I found this recipe and boy does it taste like the real stuff, we loved it and I'm thinking I'll be making it for my Mom while I'm visiting this weekend.

Ingredients

1 cup milk
1 banana mashed
1 banana ( chopped for topping )
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup quick oats
3 teaspoons brown sugar

1. In a large saucepan, whisk together milk, mashed banana, 1 tsp brown sugar and cinnamon. Heat mixture on medium heat.

2. When the mixture starts to boil, add rolled oats and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. The oats should turn soft and the liquid should be absorbed.

3. Pour oatmeal evenly into two bowls, top each serving with a teaspoon of brown sugar and slices of banana. Enjoy your banana bread in a bowl.

NEXT TIME: I might add some almonds for a little nut and crunch.