I am going strong on my healthy kick! I got my husband eating right and working out as well! I even had my two year olds doing "excercise, excercise, excercise " to some kids excercise/dance programs On Demand from Comcast yesterday. Life is good....feeling good....eating good! So I thought tonight would be a perfect night to try out a new experiment for
Portobello Parmesan!
I got the idea a few weeks back when leafing throw my
Bon Appetit (Aug. 09). They had a recipe for a grilled portobello parmesan. Their recipe called to serve it open face and to just layer the ingredients on top of the mushroom, but come on...you can't call something a "parmesan" dish unless it is ooey and gooey and baked in a casserole dish in the oven! For my version I really tried to cut down on a lot of the cheese layers and also cut down on the olive oil. I used some italian turkey sausage to liven up the flavor a bit, added some spinach for health purposes, and used skim milk ricotta cheese to tie it all together. I was really quite pleased with what came out of my oven. You really want to let the dish sit for at least 10 minutes to gel a bit after coming out of the oven. The mushrooms, tomatoes and spinach do tend to create a lot of "juice" so use a slotted spoon or spatula to take each piece out of the baking dish. The flavor is outstanding...and get this....I calculated the entire recipe on My Fitness Pal and then divided it by six (it serves 6 people) and each serving is less than 350 calories! Pair it with a nice side salad and you have a dinner below 400 calories! Now how can you beat that?
