Healthy Recipes

Grilled Pepper, Onion, and Sausage Calzones

Ingredients
     1  portion Homemade/store bought Pizza Dough
     1  Vidalia or other sweet onion, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices (about 14 ounces)
     1  red bell pepper, quartered
     1  yellow bell pepper, quartered
     Cooking spray
     1  pound  hot Italian turkey sausage links
     1 3/4  cups  plus 3 tablespoons New York-Style Pizza Sauce, divided
     1 1/3  cup  (about 5 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
Preparation
1. Remove Homemade Pizza Dough from refrigerator; let stand at room temperature 1 hour.
2. Prepare grill to medium-high heat.
3. Coat onion slices and bell pepper pieces with cooking spray. Place vegetables and sausages on a grill rack coated with cooking spray. Grill vegetables 4 minutes on each side or until browned; grill sausages 8 minutes or until done, turning occasionally to brown on all sides. Remove vegetables and sausages from grill; cool slightly. Cut onion slices in half; cut bell pepper pieces into 1/2-inch strips. Cut sausages diagonally into thin slices.
4. Preheat oven to 500°
5. Place dough on a lightly floured surface; divide dough into 4 equal portions. Roll each portion into a 9 x 5-inch rectangle. Spread 1/4 cup New York-Style Pizza Sauce evenly over each rectangle, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Arrange sausage evenly over half of each rectangle; top evenly with onion and bell peppers. Sprinkle each calzone with 1/3 cup cheese. Fold other half of dough over filling; press edges together with a fork to seal.
6. Place calzones on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Coat calzones with cooking spray. Bake at 500° for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven; let stand 5 minutes. Cut each calzone in half; serve with remaining New York-Style Pizza Sauce. 

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Morning Muffins

Hands-On Time: 5 minutes
Ready In: 25 minutes    Makes: 12 muffins

Ingredients
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk*
1/2 cup applesauce
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup oat flour**
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup instant oats
1/4 cup dried apricots or golden raisins, chopped
1/4 cup almonds or walnuts, chopped
1/4 grated carrot (optional)

Directions
1.    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease 12 muffin cups.
2.    Combine sour milk, applesauce, butter, vanilla extract, egg and brown sugar and blend well.
3.    Stir together oat flour, wheat flour, baking soda and cinnamon.
4.    Add flour mixture to wet mixture and blend well.
5.    Fold in oats, almonds and apricots.
6.    Fill muffin tins. These do not rise very high, so a full muffin cup is fine.
7.    Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.

Ingredient Notes:
*Sour milk is easy to make -- add a tablespoon of vinegar to a one cup measure and fill to the top with milk. Let stand for 5 minutes.

**Oat flour doesn't need to be bought -- make your own by pureeing instant oatmeal in the blender until a fine dry powder is formed. 

Spicy Veggie Wraps

Ingredients:
Flour Tortilla Wraps
Hummus
Zucchini (peeled and cut into long strips
Spinach Leaves
Sun Dried Tomatoes
Peppers (Bell Pepper or Hot Peppers)
Alfalfa Sprouts
Annie’s Goddess Dressing

These wraps are best made with the Habanera Lime Flour Wraps you can get at Trader Joe’s.  These look orange and taste spicy.

Thinly cover the wrap with Hummus using a butter knife.  Any flavor will do, but I use the Roasted Red Pepper.

Fill the outside edge by stacking the ingredients on top of each other, Roll tightly, and hold in place with toothpicks.

TIP: Use Organic Vegetables, for a healthier wrap.
Strips of Zucchini, Spinach Leaves, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Pepper strips, Alfalfa Sprouts, and top with dressing.  Note- you only need a little of each ingredient and a small amount of dressing.

Banana Nut Bread - Vegan Style

Wet Ingredients:
3/4 cup Organic Turbinado Sugar
1/3 cup Agave Nectar
½ cup Organic Natural Applesauce
2 Tsp Organic Vanilla Extract
½ cup Almond Milk

Dry Ingredients:
2 ½ cups Organic Pastry Flour
1 ½ Tsp Baking Soda
1 TBSP Baking Powder
1 Tsp Sea Salt

3 Ripe Bananas (mashed)
Walnuts (1 cup finely chopped walnuts)

Directions:
Mix all wet ingredients together by mixer for a few minutes.  Whisk together all dry ingredients.  Add in dry ingredients with the wet ingredients blending on low.   Add in the mashed bananas and walnuts.  Pour into Pam sprayed loaf pan.

Bake on 350 degrees for approximately 50-60 minutes.  Watch closely and test for the center to be done with a toothpick.  Remove and cool before emptying the pan. Enjoy!

Old Bay Shrimp Salad

Ingredients
•    3  quarts water
•    1/4  cup  Old Bay seasoning
•    2  pounds  unpeeled, medium-size fresh shrimp
•    1/2  cup  finely chopped celery
•    1/3  cup  finely chopped onion
•    1/3  cup  light mayonnaise
•    2  tablespoons  lemon juice
•    3/4  teaspoon  Old Bay seasoning
•    1/4  teaspoon  seasoned pepper
•    8  green leaf lettuce leaves (optional)
•    Assorted crackers (optional)
Preparation
Bring 3 quarts water and 1/4 cup Old Bay seasoning to a boil in a Dutch oven; add shrimp and cook, stirring occasionally, 2 minutes or until shrimp turn pink. Drain. Pour shrimp into a 13- x 9-inch pan to cool. Peel shrimp, and devein, if desired; chop shrimp.
Stir together celery and next 5 ingredients; stir in shrimp. Cover and chill 2 hours. Serve on lettuce leaves with assorted crackers, if desired.
Shrimp Rolls: Place 1 lettuce leaf on top of each 8 (8-inch) flour tortillas. Top each evenly with 1/2 cup Old Bay Shrimp Salad and 3 or 4 avocado slices. Roll up tortillas, and secure with thick, round wooden picks. Cut in half. Makes 8 servings.
Shrimp Pitas: Cut 12 mini pita pockets in half. Stuff pockets with Old Bay Shrimp Salad. Makes 8 servings.