Chunky Cheesy Pasta Meal Recipe
1 serving whole-wheat & flax seed pasta (2oz, Hodgsons Mill)
1/2 large tub of fat-free ricotta cheese (this stuff tastes GREAT)
1 can tomato sauce (I used Hunts garlic and herb - low carb, cheap)
1/2 can of beans, optional (I used dark red kidney beans)
1/2 lb ground turkey breast or more
olive oil or some some fat free spray oil if you like
red pepper flakes, optional
veggies, optional (I just used fresh diced tomatoes)
Cook pasta, very quick with this high protein whole wheat pasta. Try to simultaneously cook the ground turkey meat in a touch of olive oil and lots of red pepper flakes (not only do they make it nice and spicy, but theres also evidence that eating red pepper speeds up the metabolism) Drain the pasta and use the pot to heat up the sauce. Combine the cooked turkey, pasta and beans in the sauce and continue to heat. Put in veggies if you like slightly better cooked veggies otherwise put them in the end so they are crunchier. Put in a ton of ricotta cheese, I put in about 2 cups of it which is 80g of protein, 40g carbs and no fat. After it was all warm I threw in the tomatoes and voila! The mixture came out extremely cheesy, just like penne ala vodka with that orangish color. The ricotta cheese adds an incredibly rich flavor to this. It turned out to be more food then I could handle so I only ate half, but if you add up the protein (80 (cheese) + 9 (pasta) + 40 (turkey) + 10 (beans)) it is about 140g of protein or more and almost 0g fat. The only carbs come from the beans, cheese and pasta (ALL whole grains and flax seed). Incredibly healthy meal, a definite MUST.