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Hungry Girl Today: 9.15.09
CHEW THE RIGHT THING
BITE IT!
HG's Ring-My-Bella Mushroom Sandwich
Pret-a-Portabella
We're SO ready to throw giant mushrooms into sandwiches! This thing is a hit
with vegetarians and omnivores alike.
Ingredients:
1 large portabella mushroom, stem removed
1 tsp. olive oil
1/8 tsp. salt, or more to taste
2 dashes ground thyme, or more to taste
1 tbsp. fat-free mayonnaise
Dash cayenne pepper, or more to taste
1 stick light string cheese
1 Arnold Select/Oroweat Sandwich Thins roll or Pepperidge Farm Deli Flats
roll
1 tsp. light whipped butter or light buttery spread (like Brummel & Brown)
2 dashes garlic powder
1 thick slice red onion, all rings intact
1 large slice tomato
1/2 cup shredded lettuce
Directions:
Coat both sides of the mushroom with oil and sprinkle with salt and thyme.
Gently rub the seasonings into the mushroom and set aside.
Season mayo to taste with cayenne pepper. Mix well and set aside. Pull
string cheese into pieces and set aside as well.
Split apart your roll and spread the inside with butter. Sprinkle with garlic
powder.
Bring a large skillet or a grill pan sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-
high heat. Place roll halves in the pan with the buttered sides down. Once
warm and toasty, remove and plate with the buttered sides up.
Place mushroom in the skillet/pan, rounded side up, along with the onion,
side by side. Cook for 5 minutes, and then flip both.
Top mushroom evenly with cheese, and cook for another 5 minutes, or until
cheese and veggies have softened.
Place mushroom on the bottom half of the roll. Top with onion, tomato, and
lettuce. Spread the buttered side of the roll's top half with mayo, and finish
off your sandwich with it. Now CHEW!
MAKES 1 SERVING
Serving Size: entire sandwich
Calories: 263
Fat: 10g
Sodium: 827mg
Carbs: 33.5g
Fiber: 7.5g
Sugars: 6.5g
Protein: 14.5g
POINTS® value 5*
HG Alternative! If you can't find Arnold Select/Oroweat Sandwich Thins or
Pepperidge Farm Deli Flats, just use a light English muffin instead!
FIGHT IT!
Cheesecake Factory Grilled Portabella on a Bun
Fatty, Fatty Fungus!
WARNING: Just because a menu item is billed as "grilled" (which sounds
innocent enough), that doesn't mean it's not also soaked in oil. We don't
know WHY those Cheesecake maniacs feel the need to do it, but the second
you bite into this jumbo mushroom creation, you taste ALL that oil. And it's
not pretty. That's not the only thing wrong with this sandwich. Oh no. There's
more. MUCH more. The bun is too large, and the inside of it is coated with
tons of butter (a la garlic bread). Then there's mayo... and cheese... and a
grilled onion, which is also soaked in oil. PLUS, this 1,000-calorie+ sandwich
is served with a mound of fries, bringing the total to more than 1,700
calories! Portabellas are so naturally light that abusing them in this way
should be illegal. (Just an opinion.) Our swap has all the delicious flavor of
the original, right down to the garlic-bread-like bun. It's sooooooo huge yet
sooooooo much lower in calories and fat. That's because we are oil-slashing
rock stars. Oh yeah!
Serving Size: one sandwich
Calories: 1,133
Fat: n.a.
Saturated Fat: 19g
Sodium: 1,279mg
Carbs: 65g
Fiber: n.a.
Sugars: n.a.
Protein: n.a.
POINTS® value of at least 23*
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CHEW ON THIS:
The month of September is National Mushroom Month. We grabbed the
biggest mushroom we could find, cooked it up, and stuffed it in a roll with a
bunch of other delicious items. Do as we do and make yourself a Ring-My
Bella Mushroom Sandwich!
It's sharing time! Click "send to a friend" and pass this recipe onto your pals
who enjoy chewing mushrooms.
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2009
*The Points® values for these products and/or recipes were calculated by
Hungry Girl and are not an endorsement or approval of the product, recipe
or its manufacturer or developer by Weight Watchers International, Inc., the
owner of the Points® registered trademark.
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