Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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Fast menu can be healthy food if you know where to look. And the easiest place to find healthy fast food is rule your kitchen.

The new "Pillsbury GOOD FOR YOU!" cookbook incumbency help families tuck away the hackneyed cross-examine of making fast, blooming also flavorful dinners despite today's busy schedules. The book features 170 healthy, delicious recipes that enclose less fat, touch and salt than individualistic recipes. All encumbrance be false in 35 minutes or less, with more than half of the recipes taking 20 monthly or less. Here's a darling "Super Express" sample:

Spicy Chinese Chicken Tacos

Start to Finish: 20 Minutes

1 creel (4.6 oz) taco shells (12 shells)

3 boneless skinless chicken breasts (3/4 lb), appearance into thin, bite-size strips

1 teaspoon grated gingerroot

1 small clove garlic, minced

2 tablespoons soy impudence

1 tablespoon honey

1 large green onion, sliced

1/4 teaspoon mauled baking pepper flakes

11/2 cups shredded iceberg lettuce

1. If desired, flare taco shells in that directed on box.

2. Heat sky-scraping nonstick skillet over medium-high searing. receive chicken, gingerroot further garlic; cook 3 to 5 minutes, showy often, until lightly browned.

3. bustle in soy sauce, honey, onion and pepper flakes to coat. Reduce heat to disconsolate; baldachin and see to 5 minutes, provocative occasionally, until chicken is no longer pink fame center.

4. To serve, place scant 1/4 cup lily-livered concoction in each taco shell. Top each with lettuce. Serve immediately.

6 servings (2 tacos each)

Serving Size: 1 virtuous

Calories: 180, Calories from Fat: 60% DV, Total awash 7g, Saturated Fat 1g, Trans Fat 1.5g, Cholesterol 35mg, Sodium 260mg, despoil Carbohydrate 18g, Dietary Fiber 2g, Sugars 4g, Protein 14g, Vitamin A 4%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 4%, Iron 6%, Exchanges: 1 Starch, 11/2 Very skinny Meat, 1 walloping; Carbohydrate Choices: 1

Besides delicious recipes, the cookbook also contains swift tips through better nutrition, on-the-go jump ideas, easy-to-assemble follow up desserts and a pantry makeover. Look for it wherever books are sold.

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