Recipes
Having regular and reliable meals is a great way of providing good nutrition for health and wellness. Planning for enjoyable food makes meals or snacks pleasurable and trying a new recipe can help add variety to repetitive meals.
Check out the Health4U recipe collections featuring MSU chefs and Health4U staff members to help spice up your routine!
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North African Spiced Lamb Meatballs
Meatballs in red sauce are classic all over the world. The spice defines the cuisine. For these lamb meatballs, a sauce might begin with tomatoes or red peppers; season with coriander and cinnamon; finish with fresh mint; then serve over couscous.
Trout Tarragon
In this recipe Chef teaches us to make a simple pan sauce. Sauté to develop fond (incredibly flavorful stuff stuck to the pan) add some aromatics, loosen fond with wine, reduce liquid over heat, finish with butter and fresh herb. For this recipe—tarragon!
Badamaash Pork Cutlet
Chef Kurt’s Badamaash Pork Cutlet, spiced with Indian flavors, won him 2018 Chef of the Year from Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association! He served it with dumpling and other tasty sides. He says it makes a great sandwich, simply served on a bun!
Wild Rice Tomato Soup
Not your typical wild rice soup, Chef Kurt’s version is loaded with vegetables and grains. And deliciousness! Soups in general are flexible. Feel free to switch out the veggies to whatever suits you. Add this one to your repertoire of warm, cozy meals!
Egg Foo Yung Maitake
Egg foo yung is best described as an Asian omelet containing a mixture of chopped foods and served with a flavorful sauce.
Super Simple Chili
Pull this pot of chili together using mostly pantry ingredients. Simmer for 30 minutes (or less) and you've got dinner! Flavors meld for a next day chili that's even better.
Mushroom and Wild Rice Soup
If you love mushrooms like I do, this is the soup for you! Savory and just the right amount of creaminess. A batch makes a bunch--it heats up well for a lunch or two next week. If it makes it through the weekend, that is!
Korean Barbecue Sauce
This is not your ordinary barbecue sauce. Gochujang give this sauce an instant flavor boost! Bring the heat and amp up the flavor of salmon, pork chops and ribs, pulled pork, meatballs, chicken, lettuce wraps, and jackfruit. The possibilities are endless!
Pickled Butternut Squash with Squash Purée
Want to expand your repertoire for serving butternut squash so abundant right now? Chef Kurt uses butternut squash two ways: to make a thick pasta sauce; and lightly pickled to top your dish with a pop of flavor from some of fall’s favorite spices.
Raspberry Turnover
Flaky pastry filled with raspberries and cheese makes a delightful dessert, snack, or breakfast.
Roasted Tomato Sauce
Chef’s recipe has layers of flavor beginning with roasting the tomatoes, and then adding Indian spices. You can use any kind of tomato for this sauce but it may need to be reduced (cooked longer) if you use beefsteak tomatoes rather than paste tomatoes.
