Healthy versions of junk food, hurray! Scrumptious mac-n-cheese, nom nom pizza bites (made out of leftover quinoa from the mac), and zucchini chips (which did not really turn out for me..but I thought I would pass along the idea).
Technically it’s supposed to be chipotle mac-n-cheese….and made out of just the quinoa, no pasta shells. But I used a jalapeno instead of chipotle pepper, and I wanted it to be justtt a bit more mac-n-cheese like, so I threw in some whole wheat pasta shells. I used egg beaters where it called for eggs, lite cheese (normally I would use fat free, but I didn’t see any at Trader Joe’s), and I didn’t bother with any flour (it made it in my ingredients photo though). Ohh, and I decided to throw in some sriracha (duh), as well as some salsa…because, eh, it needed to be used. It all went well together.
Made some major modifications to this recipe.. I decided to use tomato sauce in the main mixture, rather than just for dipping; egg beaters instead of the real thing; and I left the cheese and basil out of the mixture, and simply placed a slice of Cabot 75% fat free cheese atop each piece (once taken out of the oven) and topped each with a basil leaf.
Andd the stubborn zucchini chips, that justt didn’t do what I wanted. Love the idea though (maybe yours will turn out better).
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