382 Calorie Pasta Primavera Dish!

I love me some pasta, but its always "OFF THE MENU" when I'm dieting, until now! Last night I invented a new dish that not only was big on flavor, and had yummy pasta in it, it was also super healthy and low calorie. I had to share! Its filling, and even a pretty big portion for "health food".

Not the best pic, but trust me - it was SOO good. I snapped the pic quickly because I was starving, but it will work for this recipe.

What you need:
Angel hair Pasta (just a little)
Drizzle of Olive Oil
1/3 of an Yellow Onion
1 small carrot
2 cloves garlic
4-5 mushrooms
1 small Zucchini
about 1/2-1 cup Broccoli
Tablespoon of butter (or less)
1/2 - 1 Tablespoon of Lemon Juice (I like lemon flavor so I used a lot)
Greek Seasoning
Sprinkle of reduced fat Feta Cheese

Boil water, cook a small patch of Angel Hair pasta as directed. I used about the thickness of my finger worth of pasta, really don't need much cause the veggies fill it in, plus its just empty calories (delicious empty calories) anyway.

While that's doing its thing take a TINY drizzle of olive oil and saute up some yellow onions (these do have a kind of high calorie count FYI, so if you aren't into onions - skip them and its still will be good and it will save you about 30 calories. Then add chopped up carrots, then garlic, then mushrooms, then broccoli, then zucchini, saute for about 5-7 minutes total, checking doneness (about as long as it will take for you noodles to cook. Add the butter, and lemon juice and greek seasoning (salt/pepper good too).  Add the done pasta to the skillet and toss it all together.

Put on your plate, sprinkle the bit of feta cheese on top (helps you forget about Parmesan, and its consistent with the Greek seasonings used) You can change this up and use all sorts of veggies, and seasonings. But keep it light, simple and delicious! Just weigh your food and make sure you pay attention to calories.

If you can splurge, meat would be great in this too - especially shrimp! Chicken or whatever you like!

ENJOY!
xoxo

Kela