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Millennium Pasta Carbonara

This delicious and healthy recipe is easy to prepare. The original recipe is available in Dr. Neal Barnard’s NutritionMD web site, www.nutritionMD.com. It is a recipe submitted by the Millennium Restaurant in San Francisco, which is recognized as one of the finest gourmet vegetarian restaurants in the world. Continue reading

Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff by Dean Ornish, MD

This recipe is published by Dr. Ornish in his book, Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish. You can buy the book here.

This recipe fits Dr. Ornish’s Reversal Diet guidelines, with a Total Fat content = 4 grams or 5% of total calories. It includes non-fat sour cream and cornstarch, a technique to replace cream in pasta sauces which is also described in his book. And it uses a soy meat alternative, Boca Burgers instead of the typical steak in most stroganoff recipes.

See a comparison of the fat content in this recipe to 4 other “Creamy” Stroganoff recipes here. A more detailed nutrition analysis for this recipe is after the jump. Continue reading