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Pasta and Grains: Pasta and Noodle Dishes: Pasta with Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Feel indulgent while sticking to your weight-loss goals with this creamy mushroom pasta. This Recipe Makeover yields less calories and fat than traditional creamy pastas.
Per serving: 349 calories and 7g fat.
Saves: 216 calories and 15g fat!
Author: Fresh Finesse
Date: November 04, 2010
Serves: 4 person(s)
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins
Ingredients:
Traditional creamy pasta dishes have oodles of fat and calories. The healthier Pasta with Creamy Mushroom Sauce uses fresh herbs, low-fat sour cream, Canadian bacon, and less shell pasta. | Recipe Makeover |
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2 slices Canadian bacon or links of lean turkey bacon, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
4 flat mushrooms, sliced
200 g low-fat sour cream
3 cup shell pasta, cooked
1 pinch freshly ground black pepper
1 Tbsp fresh thyme leaves
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| Traditional Recipe |
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2 thick slices bacon, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
4 flat mushrooms, sliced
200 g sour cream (or heavy cream)
4 cup shell pasta, cooked
1 pinch black pepper
1 tsp ground thyme
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Directions:
Gently cook bacon, onion and garlic in a large saucepan until soft. Add mushrooms. Cook 3 minutes. Drain fat. Remove from heat. Add sour cream, pasta, pepper, and thyme; combine. Stir in cooked pasta.
Serve hot in pasta bowls.
Variations:
If desired, serve sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese and a green salad and/or vegetables.
If nonfat sour cream is available, it can be substituted in an equal amount.
Serving suggestions are not included in the nutritional analysis.
Nutritional Information
(Per Serving)
| Makeover | Traditional |
| Calories: | 349 cals | 565 cals |
| Kilojoules: | 1,461 kJ | 2,365 kJ |
| Fat | 7.0 g | 22.0 g |
| Carbohydrates | 56.0 g | 73.0 g |
| Protein | 13.0 g | 15.0 g |
| Cholesterol | 26.0 mg | 34.0 mg |
| Sodium | 169 mg | 172 mg |
| Saturated Fat | 4.0 g | 10.0 g |
| Fiber | 2.0 g | 2.0 g |
| Calcium | 71.0 mg | 70.0 mg |
| Total Sugars | 2.8 g | 3.0 g |
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