Favorite Cooking Light recipe

[sassysyd64]

Hey Chowhounders,

Although I would love to cook with butter and duck fat every night, I absolutely adore Cooking Light recipes for my week night dinners. The recipes help me keep my weight down, and rarely lack flaws in my opinion, except for an occasional lack of oil. Anyway, I would absolutely love to hear what everyone's favorite tried and true Cooking Light recipes are. Mine, is "Winter Squash Risotto with Radicchio". Looking forward to hearing all the opinions!

Happy eating,
~Sydney~

[betterbeheaven]

I love Cooking Light for everyday recipes!

My favorites:
Korean meatballs (though admittedly I've made mine with ground chicken thigh and panko breadcrumbs, so less healthy)
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/korean-meatballs-10000002012780/

Spicy honey glazed chicken thighs (yummy too with breasts
)http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/spicy-honey-brushed-chicken-thighs-10000001591042/

Beef daube
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1654630

Broiled tilapia with Thai red curry sauce (sauce is great on shrimp and chicken too
)http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/broiled-tilapia-with-thai-coconut-curry-sauce-10000000348346/

This is a list of CL's own best ever recipes:
http://www.cookinglight.com/eating-sm...

[sassysyd64]

I love these! Funny enough, I made the falafel with avocado from CL's best-ever recipes last night. It was the best. I love all of these recipes though. I have been wanting to make the spicy honey glazed thighs, but I am not a huge fan of thighs. Seeing that you have done this with breasts though, is really exciting. Thanks!

[Fowler]

Another idea...if you are interested in cooking/eating more CL food, they have food clubs all over the country. I was in one a few years ago and it was informative and fun.

[sassysyd64]

WOW! I love that. Thanks! I love any chance to talk about food! Thanks again!
~Sydney~

[ChristinaMason]

Another recipe I like is one for burgers with chipotle crema: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/spicy...

I halved the amount of poblanos and found the heat level to be perfect. Do skip the breadcrumbs if you don't want a "meatloafy" texture. I even subbed ground chicken breast for the beef with good results (and lower fat).

[sassysyd64]

This is my favorite so far!!! I adore pickled red onions, and have made them on multiple occasions! Thank you!
~Sydney~

[ChristinaMason]

These sweet potato ravioli are very good. http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/sweet...

I feel like I've posted about them on CH ad nauseum, but that's because they are good and fun to make. Be sure to up the number of herbs and spices in the filling (I add fresh sage, rosemary, garlic, ginger, sauteed shallot, and hot pepper flake). So good.

[sassysyd64]

LOVE THIS! Looks amazing. I will be making this very soon!

[Fowler]

Sounds great. I love the combination of flavors.

[Fowler]

I've made a lot of CL recipes over the years. One of my favorites is Lion's Head Meatballs in Spicy Coconut Sauce:

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/lions...

[sassysyd64]

These look delicious. Maybe you can make smaller ones, so you can have more, but for not much more calories. Look forward to making them! Thanks!

[sassysyd64]

All of those sound amazing! "Black Bean Burgers with Mango Salsa", are fantastic. I don't even have the bun or salsa, but just the burger itself on a salad. I also use Monterrey Jack cheese. SO GOOD!

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/black...

[LaPomme]

I grew tired of every recipe starting with cooking spray, but this Cincinnati Turkey Chili recipe is in regular rotation at my house: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/cinci...

[sassysyd64]

I know what you mean about the cooking spray...
Thanks for the recipe though!

[valerie]

I have been making these Chicken Burgers with Peanut Sauce for years. My husband loves them. I hate turkey burgers, but I like chicken burgers....I don't even need the peanut sauce, so my husband eats it all!

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chick...

[shaebones]

Black bean and goat cheese quesadilla. I usually add some shredded chicken. We've had it MANY times.

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/black...

[katecm]

I stopped subscribing because I felt that after years of it, there was a lot of redundancy. But, I will always love the Thai-style ground beef. It's not fancy, and I'm sure it's not authentic, but it's a great weeknight meal.

[ROCKLES]

Years and years ago there was a recipe for Chicken Pesto salad

[sassysyd64]

That sounds great! I wish that I could find it. I have an old one called "Spanish Sherried Shrimp", that is outstanding. Here's the recipe:

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/spani...

Would you happen to have the recipe???

~Sydney~

[ROCKLES]

I have been looking for it for many years, If I had to guess it came out around 1994 and I haven't seen it since. I have all the old magazines but it takes a long time to go through them. I have checked cooking lights website but they don't go back that far. I will continue looking because it was wonderful.

[sassysyd64]

Great! Let me know if you find the recipe. I love older stuff like that! Thanks!

[sassysyd64]

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I also love, love, love the "Herb-Crusted Rack of Lamb".

[arp29]

One of our favorites from Cooking Light is the Smoked Gouda macaroni and cheese.

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/smoked-gouda-macaroni-cheese-10000000428926/

I also got on a serious jag of making these muffins a few months ago.

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/cocon...

[dfrostnh]

There was a stir fried tofu and veggie recipe several years ago. I don't use tofu but I love the stir fry sauce since it contains oyster sauce.

Simple Seared Scallops when we can afford dry sea scallops.