How to Make Healthy One Skillet Meal
One skillet meals are dishes which can be cooked easily and quickly. They require less clean up and can be made with fewer ingredients and equipments. In this busy life, you usually do not have time to buy several ingredients and make things for someone or yourself with them. Skillet meals come handy at this point as they are made in few minutes and require only few utensils. You can alter the ingredients and according to your desire and make something new as well. Common ingredients of skillet meals include pasta, rice, a meat product, a sauce and vegetables.
Instructions
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1
Seared Strip Steaks with Horseradish-Root Vegetable Slaw
Prep time: 40 min
Yields: 4 persons, 3-4 ounces steak and generous ½ cup slaw each
Utensils: Skillet, medium bowl
Ingredients:
Shredded peeled root vegetables: 3 cups, such as beets, carrots, celeriac and/or turnips
Extra-virgin olive oil: 2 teaspoons
Chopped fresh dill: 3 tablespoons
Kosher salt: 3/4 teaspoon
Strip steak (1-1 1/4 inch thick) trimmed and cut into 4 portions: 1 pound
Freshly ground pepper: 1/4 teaspoon
Water: 1/4 cup
White balsamic (see Note) or regular balsamic vinegar: 1/4 cup
Prepared horseradish: 2-4 tablespoons
Reduced-fat sour cream: 1 tablespoon
Preparation:
First you need to place root vegetables, 2 teaspoons oil, 2 tablespoons dill and ½ teaspoon salt in a medium bowl. Place the bowl near you for later purposes. Next you need to heat 1 tablespoon oil in a skillet with medium high heat. Add steak which is sprinkled with ¼ teaspoon salt and pepper and cook it. After cooking steak for three to five minutes, put the steak on a plate and pour water, vinegar and horseradish on the pan. Pour the accumulated juice of steak on the pan sauce. Next place the sauce over the vegetable slaw. Add sour cream and 1 tablespoon of dill into the sauce which is left in the pan.
In order to serve, you need to cut the slaw and steak in four pieces and pour the sauce over them. -
2
Skillet Lasagna
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Yields: 2 persons
Utensils: Skillet
Ingredients:
Meat loaf mix: 1 pound
Curly lasagna noodles, broken into 2-in. pieces: 2
Marinara sauce: 1 jar
Water: 2 cup
Shredded Italian cheese blend: 1 cup
Part-skim ricotta: ¾ cup
Preparation:
You need to place the meat loaf in a large skillet and then cook it for almost five minutes. Remember to use medium heat and stir it until the meat is brown. Take out fat and then add noodles, sauce and water. Boil it after this for almost 18 to 20 minutes. Next you need to remove the ingredients from heat and add ½ cup shredded cheese. Later pour ricotta on the top of this and remaining shredded cheese. In the end, cover it for almost three minutes until the cheese melts.
