Try Out Healthy Ground Beef Recipes For Dinner

Whether you called it ground beef or minced meat, it can be made into a tasty treat for dinner. Apart from its versatility, this affordable meat is a healthy choice for non-vegetarians. The lean ground beef contains a high percentage of proteins, vitamin B, zinc and iron. Many of us already know how to cook ground beef. If you are not, then also you can try out heart healthy ground beef recipes for dinner, with less effort.

Quick and Healthy Ground Beef Recipes

So, you crave for minced beef dishes and ground beef casserole recipes, but are concerned about the high calorie content? Not to worry, as there are some best healthy ground beef recipes, which you can try making at home. In order to ensure that you are consuming less fatty ground beef, purchase a reputable brand, approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). Also, do not forget to add sufficient amount of veggies in your cooking. The following are some easy healthy ground beef recipes for you:

Healthy Ground Beef with Vegetables Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1 ½ cups thinly sliced onion
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 cup finely chopped carrot
• 1 ½ cups slices yellow bell pepper
• 1 ½ cups slices red bell pepper
• 1 (14.5-ounce) can no-salt-added stewed tomatoes
• 1 (8-ounce) can no-salt-added tomato sauce
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• ½ cup dry white wine (Optional)
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Directions for Preparation

If you are looking for healthy low calorie ground beef recipes, this one is for you. This minced meat and veggie dish yields about 300 calories per serving. To start with cooking, preheat a nonstick pan over medium high heat. Add beef and cook till brown. Drain oil and transfer meat into a platter. Return pan to heat and add olive oil. Saute onion and garlic for 1-2 minutes. Stir in carrot, yellow bell pepper and red bell pepper. Cook for 3 minutes and then add cooked beef. Then, add all the remaining ingredients - tomato sauce, vinegar, white wine, salt and pepper. As it reaches boiling temperature, reduce heat and cook for 15 minutes. Discard bay leaves and serve hot.

Healthy Ground Beef and Macaroni Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 pound extra-lean (93%) ground beef
• 2 cups macaroni noodles, cooked
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 (28 ounces) cans crushed tomatoes
• 1 cup finely grated low fat cheese
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• Freshly ground black pepper to taste

Directions for Preparation

This is one of the healthy ground beef recipes that you can try out at home. Preheat a thick skillet, and brown onion and beef. Stir in tomato sauce and cook for another 10-15 minutes over medium low heat setting. Season with salt to taste. Stir well and taste, if the seasonings are perfect for your taste. Remove from heat, cover lid and keep aside. Cook macaroni in a pot, as per the directions mentioned in the package. Check for doneness and drain water. Transfer cooked macaroni into serving bowls. Then, top it with meat mixture, grated cheese and pepper. While serving, garnish the dish with basil.

A Number Of Different Ways To Cook Salmon

There are many ways of cooking salmon, which include baking, frying, grilling etc. One often gets bored by eating the same kind of recipes, but almost all the salmon recipes call for different style of cooking, that is when we again switch back to the normal boring recipe! And that is why I have mentioned here almost all styles of cooking salmon. Many times, we are not lucky enough to find fresh salmon, and the only option which is left is frozen salmon. If you cook frozen salmon the same way as the normal one, there is a possibility of it tasting different, a bit less tasty. The correct way of cooking frozen salmon has been given below. With the help of this recipe, you will be able to answer the question?

Ingredients

• 12 ounce salmon fillet, cut into 4 pieces
• Freshly ground black pepper
• Coarse-grained salt

Process

Preheat the oven to 450º F and start seasoning with pepper and salt. Now place the salmon on a non-stick pan, side down. Bake the salmon in the preheated oven for about 12 - 15 minutes, or until it is cooked thoroughly. So now you can give rest to the question, how to cook baked salmon.

 Ingredients

• 2 frozen pie crust circles or make your own
• 1½ tbs butter
• 2 cups hot or newly cooled cooked rice (do not use instant rice)
• 1 pint canned red or king salmon
• 1 medium onion diced
• 1 beaten egg
• Salt and pepper as desired or needed
• 1 tsp granulated onion (optional)

Process

Take onions and butter and place them in a microwave. Cook until the onions are clear. Till that time, mix all the ingredients and place in a pie crust lined pie pan, pressing down a bit lightly. For covering, use the top crust and seal. Cut the openings and lightly brush canned milk on the crust and then bake at 350º F, until it turns golden brown. Serve hot.


Ingredients

• 2 tbsp capers
• 4 (6 ounce) fillets salmon
• 1/8 tsp ground black pepper
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 4 slices lemon
• 1/8 tsp salt

Process

Firstly, preheat a big heavy skillet for about 3 minutes, over medium heat. Then cover salmon with olive oil and place in the skillet, increasing the heat to high. Cook for 3 more minutes and then sprinkle pepper, salt and capers. Now turn it over and cook for about 5 minutes. You will understand that the salmon is done, when it flakes with fork. Garnish with lemon slices while serving.

Ingredients

• toasted sesame oil
• ginger soy salad dressing
• Wasasbi rice seasoning
• frozen salmon fillets

Process

Preheat the oven at 350º F. Take aluminum sheets, which are big enough to fit the salmon and brush them with toasted sesame oil. Place a piece of frozen salmon on each sheet and brush the sides and top of the fish with ginger soy salad dressing. Then sprinkle wasabi rice seasoning on each piece. Once you are done with this, join the ends of the aluminum foil and fold, only till it reaches the salmon. Fold, to seal each piece into individual packet. Place these packets onto a cookie sheet and bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes. Serve with slice of lemon.

Ingredients

• 1 lemon, wedged for garnish
• 2 pounds salmon fillets or 4 salmon steaks, ¼ lb. to ⅓ lb. each
• 1½ tbs olive oil, extra virgin
• Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

Process

First brush the charcoal or gas grill grates with oil, so that the salmon does not stick. Then place rack about 4 inches from the heat source and heat the grill at a high temperature. Now brush a thin coat of oil on the pieces of fish and grill for about 5 minutes, flesh side down. After 5 minutes, turn over the fish and grill for 2 - 3 minutes more. Serve immediately.

These were some of the tasty answers to your question, how to cook salmon? Try each of the recipes and decide which is your favorite. You can also try the same recipes with other fish.

How To Make Healthy Fruit Salad

One of the best delicious desserts is really the bowl ful of fruits or most popularly known as fruit salad. Seems just as a platter filled with fruits, fruit salad dish is essentially made with salad recipe dressings. The fruit salad dish is broadly valued all over the world for its sweet fruity taste plus different health benefits, that the range of fruits gives.

The bowl of fruit is not simply a dessert, but may also be consumed just as one entre. To put in a few additional graces for the recipe, you could try covering the fruits in thick sweet syrup or some basic thick fruit juice. Usually, you don't get an opportunity to enjoy fruit salad in hotels or restaurants, so it is always better that you try making your own fruit salad recipe at residence.

Well, the procedure of making fruit salad recipe is most likely the best. All you have to do is make preparations with a few of your preferred fruits and a couple of other elements. If you could have fruit trees planted in the backyard, it is going to be truly easy that you can make the salad. You may also look at the closest grocery store for fruits which may be difficult to find in the patch.

Most fruit salads contain these fruits like components: grapes, apples, peaches, pineapples, and also the likes. You can even pick up a few fresh and nice strawberries and blueberries. In order to provide some flavors, you may as well make use of new honey, sour cream and some mint leaves on the top end of the fruit salad. As a rule, two cups filled up with various clean fruits are adequate to make a fruit salad which will serve up 3-4 people. Subsequently, merely mix them right along with the fruit salad dressing and revel in your bowl filled with nourishing and delicious fruits snack.

Preparing the salad is generally similar to the easiest way you make the delicious platter of fruit - a common disparity is that you have to create a dressing for the salad. There are actually various dressings on hand that ought to be elected in respect to the fruits you intend to include within the salad recipe. Within Europe, for example, mayonnaise is needed as the primary elements for the salad, while condensed milk is needed as the leading dressing ingredients for fruit salads in Asia. Those salads, no matter what type of dressing, contain single common flavor: they are definitely meant to get sweet.

Delicious Cheese Cake with Ice Cream

 1/2 cup of powdered sugar (adjust your sugar to the sweetness of your cherries. Not rocket science.)
6 oz of cream cheese
1/3 cup sour cream
1 1/4 cups of heavy cream
1/4 cup milk
1/3 cup lime juice (lemon is okay too- I just happened to have limes here.)
The zest of 2 limes. (lemons are okay too... see above.)
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

About 6 graham crackers (I like honey grahams. You use what you like.) 3 tbs of melted butter. Put these two things in a processor. If you have graham cracker crumbs already just use about 1/2-3/4 cup of those. I just can't seem to find ready made crumbs near me for blood or money.

The point is, mix the crumbs and the melted butter so the crumbs kind of cling together. This is important, because if you don't add the butter, the crumbs kinda just become "dirt." The butter holds them together and will create a swirl if you do it right, and all the planets align. Divide the cut cherries in half. Use half in the ice cream base. Put 1/2 of the cherries, and all the other ingredients in a blender. Turn the blender on. Create ice cream base. Put base into ice cream machine. Make food, according to manufacturer's instructions. Right near the end of the process, add the other half of the cherries.

At the very end, when you only have a couple of turns of the blades left, pour the crumbs in a steady stream into the ice cream maker. Do not overmix the crumbs. You want a ribbon, not the crumbs to mix all over the place. Gently transfer the ice cream to whatever you intend to freeze it solid in. Again, don't stir it too much or you'll blow the texture.

How To Cook Pizza

I tried this recipe last night and the result was fabulous. Now to make pizza you don’t need oven. You can simply make it in pan on your regular stove and result is same as like the baked pizza.

For Dough

• 2 1/2 cup flour
• 2 tsp yeast
• 2 pinch sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1-2 tbsp olive or cooking oil

For Pizza Paste

• 1-2 tbsp oil
• 1 clove garlic, chopped
• 1 onion, sliced
• 500 gm tomatoes, chopped
• 2 pinch oregano
• 2 pinch sugar
• Salt to taste

For Pizza Topping

• 150 gm boneless chicken
• Salt to taste
• 2 tbsp chili sauce
• 2 spring onions with leaves, chopped
• 2 tomatoes without seeds, chopped
• 1 capsicum, chopped
• 8-10 olives
• 5 mushrooms, chopped
• 1/2 tsp red chili flakes
• 1 cup mozzarella cheese, grated
• 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated

Method Of Pizza

• For dough, just mix all the ingredients and knead them with water. Put it in room temperature covered for 3-4 hours till it becomes double in its size.
• For sauce, sauté onion and garlic in oil, add spices and tomatoes. Cook it for 2-3 minutes and then blend it in blender. You can also store this sauce in refrigerator. I also added the red chili flakes in sauce.
• Fry the chicken in oil than add little water and cook till the chicken is done. Add chili sauce and salt in it. Remove from heat and add all vegetables in it. Add red chili flakes and 1/2 tsp oregano in it and mix it well.
• Now make a round pizza base from dough with the help of rolling pin. Preheat the pan on stove. Put the pizza base in pan and cover it, cook it on low flame for 2-3 minutes.
• Now take out the base from pan and apply the pizza sauce on other side, which is already cooked.
• Put chicken and vegetable mixture on it and then sprinkle both cheese on it.
• Put it in pan again and cook it covered for 15 minutes or till the pizza leaves the pan.

Tip: You can change the toppings according to your choice and you can also make this pizza in oven.

How To Cook Grilled Chicken Sliders

Sliders are easy to make and even better to eat, but sometimes sourcing buns for them can be a problem.  If Alexis doesn't have time to bake a batch from scratch, I usually just use Kings Hawaiian Sweet Rolls.  But yesterday, she found a 16 pack of slider buns from Pepperidge Farm at Wallyworld.  It might not be a new product but it's new to us so I thought I'd share.
Anyway, here are some grilled chicken sliders that I made last night.  The first time I made them, I didn't add the beer to the glaze and it burned almost instantly because of the sugars.  The second time, the additional liquid made it work perfectly.  If you don't want to use beer, you could just use chicken stock but I like the nutty flavor a dark beer adds to the sweet glaze.
Grilled Chicken Sliders
Ingredients
2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
2 tsp poultry rub (see notes)
8 slider buns
toppings of your choice such as lettuce, tomato, onion, or pickles
For the glaze
2 Tbsp Maple agave nectar (see notes)
2 Tbsp amber style beer
1 Tbsp lime juice
1 Tbsp white wine vinegar
For the spicy mayo
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 Tbsp Cholula chipotle hot sauce
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
Instructions
Preheat your charcoal grill set up for direct heat to 350f (medium). 
Mix the spicy mayo together and refrigerate.  In another bowl, mix the glaze together and set aside.
Using a very sharp knife, slice each breast in half lengthwise to make cutlets.  Cut each cutlet in half.
Season your cutlets on both sides with poultry rub.
Grill cutlets 2-3 minutes, just until the edges start to turn white.  Flip and grill another 2 minutes.
Brush with the glaze on both sides and cook another minute.  Check with a thermometer to make sure they are properly cooked to an internal temperature of 165f.
Toast slider rolls on the grill, if you prefer.
Serve on rolls with the spicy mayo.
Notes
For poultry rub, I used Albukirky Seasonings new Green Chile Rub.  You can make a quick poultry rub of 1 tsp Kosher salt, 1/2 tsp black pepper, and 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
If you don't have maple agave nectar, you could substitute honey or maple syrup.

How To Make Fire Roasted Hassleback Sweet Potatoes

A part of dinner last night was those cute Hassleback potatoes and after dinner, Alexis wondered aloud if we could do that with sweet potatoes.  Why not?  So I tried it for lunch.  You could also cook this in the oven at the same time and temps, but fire roasting adds that extra touch.
Fire Roasted Hassleback Sweet Potatoes
2 ea sweet potatoes, washed and dried
2 Tbsp butter
3/4 tsp salt
3 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp Agave nectar (or honey)
1/4 tsp cinnamon, fresh grated
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
Light your charcoal.  Set up your charcoal grill for an indirect set up (cooking over a void with coals to the sides) at 425f. 
Slice the potatoes almost all the way through in 1/8" intervals.   I picked up a trick that makes that easier somewhere on the Internet and can't remember where.  So I can't give appropriate credit but I didn't come up with this genius idea. 
Remove and let cool for 5 minutes.  You might need a wide spatula to remove them without breaking.
Meanwhile melt the 3 Tbsp of butter and add the agave nectar (or honey), cinnamon, and red pepper.  Drizzle the butter mixture over the potatoes and serve.
I'm not a huge fan of sweet potatoes, I usually make them because my life loves them (this was a practice run for Valentines and our anniversary coming up).    But I really liked these.  The fire roasting enriched the flavor and the velvety butter sauce has sweet with a subtle heat to it. 
Deep Fried Hassleback Potatoes
While that was cooking, curiosity struck again.  I wondered if you could deep fry small russets done hassleback style so I tried it with two of them.  I deep fried them for 3 minutes at 375f.   As soon as they came out of the fryer, I hit them with kosher salt.
They were good but I prefer them baked.  The petals or slices open up better during baking whereas the frying happened so quick that I had to "reslice" some of the pieces to open them manually before salting.