Recipe: Low-Calorie Turkey-Spinach Lasagna

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Categories: Poultry, Main dish, Diabetic, Cheese, Low-fat/cal

Yield: 8 Servings

     30 oz Frozen chopped spinach (3box
     16 oz Lowfat ricotta cheese
      2 c  Chopped cooked turkey
      2 c  Or 15 oz jar spaghetti sauce
      8 oz Lowfat mozzarella cheese, sl

1/4 c Grated Parmesan cheese

Thaw the spinach and squeeze out any liquid. Put about 1/3 of the spinach in the bottom of a lightly oiled casserole. Spread half of the ricotta over the spinach. Sprinkle on half of the turkey. spoon on half of the spaghetti sauce. Top with half of the mozzarella slices.

Repeat the layering process - 1/3 spinach, rest of ricotta, turkey, spaghetti sauce, mozzarella. Finish with the final third of spinach. Sprinkle on the parmesan cheese. Bake in 350 F oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until browned.

1/8 recipe - 260 calories, 3 lean meat, 2 vegetable, 1 fat exchange 9 grams carbohydrate, 23 grams protein, 15 grams fat, 590 mg sodium, 502 mg potassium, 62 mg cholesterol.

Source: Am. Diabetes Assoc. Holiday Cookbook by Betty Wedman 1986 Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier, Nov 93

File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/diabetic.zip

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