• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Losing Weight Improve Your Waistline

  • About
  • Contact Me
  • Privacy Policy
  • Archives
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter

Wholewheat Pasta With Light Cream Cheese In Tomato Sauce

January 10, 2012 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

It's only fair to share...Share on facebook
Facebook
Share on twitter
Twitter
Share on linkedin
Linkedin
Share on google
Google
Share on pinterest
Pinterest

Tonight’s dinner was meant to be a pasta sauce with ricotta, but I couldn’t find any in the supermarket when I laid in this week’s healthy provisions. I’ve been cooking pasta (and eating it) for as long as I can remember, so tweaking a pasta based recipe isn’t that much of a challenge.

I also found that the quantities in the recipe were going to render it incredibly dry (1 tomato with a bit of tomato puree doesn’t go very far), so I added a bit more to it.

The end result was incredibly tasty and remarkably low in calories.

If this is the kind of food I need to eat to lose weight and improve my health, then this diet isn’t going to be that much hard work!

Here’s the recipe incorporating my tweaks 🙂

 

Print

Wholewheat Pasta With Light Cream Cheese In Tomato Sauce

Course Main Course
Cuisine Italian
Keyword pasta
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 1

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp of olive oil
  • 100 g. of onion chopped
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1/2 pepper
  • 150 g. of lean minced beef
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp of tomato puree
  • 1 pinch of oregano
  • 1 pinch of mixed herbs
  • 63 g. of wholewheat pasta uncooked weight
  • 50 g. of light philadelphia cream cheese
  • 1 tbs of grated Parmesan cheese
  • Black pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Heat the oil in a non-stick pan and cook the onion, garlic and pepper until slightly softened.
  2. Add the minced beef, turn up the heat and continue to cook until the beef is browned through. Add the diced tomato, tomato puree and herbs and simmer for 20 minutes.
  3. Meantime, prepare the pasta following package directions, omitting any suggested fat or salt.
  4. Stir the philadelphia cheese into the beef mix and serve this with the pasta, sprinkling with Parmesan cheese.

 

Related articles
  • Pasta Recipes Made Healthy (everydayhealth.com)
It's only fair to share...Share on facebook
Facebook
Share on twitter
Twitter
Share on linkedin
Linkedin
Share on google
Google
Share on pinterest
Pinterest

Related Posts:

  • Delicious Low Carb Shepherd's Pie
    Delicious Low Carb Shepherd's Pie
  • Vacuum Sealing Food for Sous-vide and Sanity
    Vacuum Sealing Food for Sous-vide and Sanity
  • Fresh Vegetables From the Local Market
    Fresh Vegetables From the Local Market
  • Eating Properly During the Pandemic
    Eating Properly During the Pandemic
  • Mexican Chillies Fresh vs Dry
    Mexican Chillies Fresh vs Dry
  • Growing my own Chillies
    Growing my own Chillies

Filed Under: food, recipes Tagged With: Cook, Cream cheese, Olive oil, Pasta, Recipe, Tomato, Tomato sauce

Previous Post: « Getting A Checkup With A Doctor And Advice On Losing Weight
Next Post: Overdosing On Fruit »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Nisbets logo

Recent Posts

  • Growing my own Chillies
  • Walking for Movember
  • Mexican Chillies Fresh vs Dry
  • Vacuum Sealing Food for Sous-vide and Sanity
  • Delicious Low Carb Shepherd’s Pie

Categories

  • cooking
  • diet
  • dieting apps and services
  • equipment
  • exercise
  • food
  • fruit
  • fun
  • health
  • infographics
  • juices
  • lifestyle
  • recipes
  • shopping
  • smoothies
  • tablets
  • travel
  • video

Blogroll

  • James Larkin
  • My Personal Blog
  • Paul Savage

Useful Sites

  • Blacknight Hosting & Domains

Archives

Footer

Site hosted in Ireland by Blacknight. Logo design by James Larkin

Copyright © 2023 Losing Weight Improve Your Waistline on the Foodie Pro Theme