Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

If you are unsure whether this Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet recipe is suitable for your personal diabetic diet, please consult your doctor or a qualified nutritionalist.



"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
~ Luigi Barzini, 'O America' (1977)


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Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet Recipe


Recipe Ingredients:

1/2 lb wagon wheel or other pasta
1/2 lb chorizo sausage, fully cooked and thinly sliced
1 large green bell pepper, diced
1 large onion, diced
1 small zucchini, diced
2 lb canned stewed tomatoes
1 lb frozen corn
1/4 lb canned diced mild green chilies
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, or Monterey Jack cheese, coarsely shredded

 

Recipe Instructions:

Cook pasta in a large pan of boiling water 10 minutes, or until al dente.
Drain and keep warm. Saut‚ sausage, green pepper and onion in a heavy
nonstick skillet over medium high heat about 5 minutes, stirring frequently
until vegetables are tender. Discard any fat in skillet. Stir in next 4
ingredients. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes. Stir
in pasta and cilantro. Serve sprinkled with cheese.

Per serving: calories 715, fat 27.5g, 34% calories from fat, cholesterol
62mg, protein 31.0g, carbohydrates 92.0g, fiber 8.9g, sodium 1114mg.

The recommended wines are: Pinot Noir, Beaujolais, or Chianti.

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Servings: 1




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Important Note: This Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet recipe was located in the public domain.It is suitable' for diabetics and low carb diets solely because someone, somewhere, decided to publish them as such. I am not qualified in medicine or nutrition, so please use your own common sense when deciding which are appropriate for your particular diet.

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This Tex-Mex Pasta Skillet Recipe may also be ideal for anyone following the Atkins diet, or seeking to reduce their carbohydrate intake for other reasons.

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