Italian Bruschetta: Low Cal and Healthy, yet Delicious!

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Here is a fancy choice for a healthy snack or even a meal. This recipe gives you the chance to obtain all the healthy calories you need, low as they are.

Home-made Italian Bruschetta ( Or Pizza )

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For one Bruschetta ( No meat ) :

Calories: 180
Carbs: 17 ( Healthy )
Fat: 7
Protein: 7
Sugar: 10 ( Healthy )

Rather than choose the fattening flour and white breads, normally used for Bruschetta recipes, be sure to find a recipe for whole-wheat/whole-grain bread. This gives you the healthy source of grain for your body. I like to use my mom's recipe because it replaces white sugar with honey, a natural, healthier sugar. Don't worry, your body does need some sugar.

Ingredients:

1/8 cup Part Skim Milk Ricotta Cheese ( Great Value )
1/4 tbls Olive Oil
1/2 Roma Tomato
1 Slice of Whole Wheat Bread ( 1/2 - 3/4 inch thick )
Italian Seasoning: Garlic Powder, Basil
Parmesan Cheese
Teeny Tiny Onion Pieces

Optional Ingredients:

Shredded Breast meat, skinless chicken: Do NOT fry or add unhealthy sauce/batter, for these extra calories are your enemies!
Shrimp: Plain, cooked, boiled, no batter
Other healthy fish ( salmon )
Red Pepper: For the brave ones!

Directions:

1. Grill your slice of bread on both sides. You can either grill it long enough to make it crunchy like the real Bruschetta, or grill it long enough just to make it like pizza bread. Your choice.

2. Spread the Ricotta Cheese over the bread slice like butter.

3. Slice and dice your tomato into several slices or into even smaller pieces. Place them in a pan and brush them with the olive oil. Garnish your tomato slices with Italian Seasoning, Basil, Garlic Powder, Teeny tiny onion pieces, and Parmesan Cheese ( Only use a little salt if it's not salty enough. I didn't add any salt because I'm not too fond of salt. ). Place the pan in the oven and broil the tomato slices for 6 minutes. After that, turn off the oven and leave the tomato slices for 5 more minutes. Your mouth should water at the aroma that wafts through the kitchen.

4. Once the tomatoes have finished roasting, place your tomato slices on top of your slice of bread.

5. Now you have a Bruschetta! Or, pizza, if it tastes like that.

6. At this point, if you so choose, you can add chicken ( Breast meat is healthiest ) or shrimp ( or any fish that is healthy, like salmon ).

As I said, this can be a snack or a meal. I whipped this up today for lunch with two slices of bread for two Bruschetta, but used the 1/8 cup of Ricotta Cheese for both slices of bread. Because of this, I doubled every ingredient in the recipe except for the Ricotta Cheese.

Nutrition Facts for Two Bruschetta: This is what would be considered a meal.

Calories: 256
Carbs: 32
Fat: 11
Protein: 9
Sugar: 18

I chose Ricotta Cheese because it is a healthier choice of protein than that of regular cheese. Tomatoes are extremely healthy for you, and don't be terrified by the sugar they contain. All in all, this is a very healthy meal for you.

It's delicious!