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Creamy Beef and Onions Recipe

If your family leans toward beef recipes, give this one from Jennifer Rahe a try. Her stick-to-your-ribs mainstay gets its tang from a low-fat sauce of yogurt and gravy. "Add a tossed salad and a basket of biscuits for a complete meal," she suggests from St. Cloud, Minnesota.

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Diabetic Friendly

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Creamy Beef and Onions Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 20 min.

Yield: 4 Servings

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Ingredients

1 pound lean ground beef (90% lean)
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2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
2 medium onions, cut into thin wedges
1 garlic clove, minced
1 jar (12 ounces) fat-free beef gravy
2/3 cup reduced-fat plain yogurt
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/8 teaspoon pepper
Hot cooked noodles
4 teaspoons minced fresh parsley

Directions

In a nonstick skillet, cook the beef, mushrooms and onions over medium heat until meat is no longer pink. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Drain.
In a small bowl, combine the gravy, yogurt, Worcestershire sauce, thyme and pepper; pour over beef. Cook until heated through. Serve with noodles; sprinkle with parsley. Yield: 4 servings.

Nutritional Analysis: One serving (1 cup beef mixture, calculated without noodles) equals 266 calories, 9 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 65 mg cholesterol, 588 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 26 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1 starch, 1 vegetable.

Originally published as Creamy Beef and Onions in Light & Tasty October/November 2003, p48