If you and your family resolved to eat healthier this year, you probably began by basing your dinners around grilled chicken and vegetables, occasionally adding whole-grain starches like brown rice and whole-wheat pasta. All too soon, you find you’ve either fallen off of the healthy eating wagon, or else dread the boring chicken and veggies on your dinner table every night!
Luckily, stepping up your dinnertime game for delicious results can be as simple as tweaking recipes that are based around one sauce. (And we promise they won’t derail your healthy eating!). Here, we’ll show you some new ways to use tomato sauce in a variety of dishes to surprise and delight your taste buds.
For a quick and easy dinner – or even an after-school snack – make English Muffin pizzas. Simply preheat your oven, split English muffins in half, and then top with sauce and shredded mozzarella cheese. Bake around 10 minutes at 375 F, or until the cheese melts. We give it an A-plus in ease and taste.
For a fresh spin on chicken, whip up this Chicken and Wild Mushroom Pilaf recipe, made with chicken drumsticks, green peas, mushroom and herb rice pilaf mix, with tomato sauce. You’ll be surprised at how the rice absorbs the sauce in the skillet, and how this tomato base helps add a new flavor dimension to historically ho-hum chicken and rice dishes. Plus, it’s a new and delicious way to incorporate chicken and veggies into a dish that doesn’t feel tired.
Whether you love slow-cooker chili or make a faster version on the stovetop for a one-dish dinner, use tomato sauce as your base. Simply add it to the beef and bean combo, then add paprika, chili flakes, chilies, jalapenos or other seasonings to make it as spicy or seasoned as you’d like!
Tex-Mex may not be an obvious thought for a healthy weeknight meal. So you may be surprised that no salt added tomato sauce can be a great base for slow-cooker Southwest Beef and Bean Burritos. The sauce keeps the beef moist and tender for tasty tortillas!
22 thoughts on “Any Recipe Can Be Spiced Up With A Yummy Sauce! – #Recipes”
these sound like great receipes
I am going to have to go and buy some tomato sauce. So many great recipes using a simple ingredient. thanks for sharing on Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen
An English Muffin Pizza??! That new and different i am intrigued!
I can never eat anything without a sauce, it just makes such a difference to the taste of everything. I’ve never heard of English muffin pizzas before so I’ve to try them!
I love using different sauces to change the taste of a boring dish. I love the tomato sauce in rice idea, I will be trying that.
DIPS and SAUCE can make a huge difference to each and every dish/food served. Thanks for the great ideas by the way.
i love pizza’s but English Muffin Pizza i never tried it.. sounds looks so yummy, easy preparation. I gonna try this at home.
Sauces can really make a meal taste so much better and add so much flavour. Thank you for sharing this.
You’ve got some great recipes here! Thanks for the ideas.
We love grilled chicken and veggies! They are a nightly standard in our house with different sides added to change it up. Sauces make all the difference! We love rice pilaf as a side and also small roasted herbed potatoes. We have done biscuit pizzas, but never tried English muffin pizzas.
The sauce looks really yummy and can complement a lot of dishes. It can go well with pizza and pasta meals.
English muffin pizzas sound very nice and so easy. It sounds like a nice treat on occasion. It works with so many sauces and toppings.
How true! Using a delicious sauce is a wonderful way to spice up an ordinary recipe.
Well, that’s one for Pinterest. I always like to try something new and different. Woo Hoo!
This is such a great recipe idea. Thanks for sharing.
This is great! We always try to find recipes that use the same ingredients to make it easier on us.
I love love love tomatoes and tomato sauce! It is so easy to add it to ordinary recipes and make them even better! And English muffins pizzas? Definitely a fave in my house!
That is so true! I can just eat rice with any yummy sauce at home. 🙂
English Muffin pizzas sound so yummy right about now! I love fun, quick and easy recipes. It’s makes cooking a little less difficult <3
We have been eating whole wheat pasta lately and we don’t mind it. I mind try your chicken recipe too. Thanks for sharing.
I used to make english muffin pizzas after school all the time. I love using hunts sauce in my unstuffed cabbage.
English muffin pizzas are a favorite in our house. We have been trying to eat healthier, too!