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Seafood Pasta Sauce Recipe

Something's fishy around Michelle Van Aller's kitchen and her husband isn't a bit suspicious! "When I make low-fat, high taste recipes like this one featuring two kinds of salsa, he's none the wiser," she writes from Hurst, Texas.

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Seafood Pasta Sauce Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 20 min.

Yield: 8 Servings

5 15 20

Ingredients

3/4 cup chopped green onions
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup white wine or chicken broth
1-1/2 cups medium chunky salsa
1/2 cup mild salsa
1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies, drained
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
1 pound bay scallops
5 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

Directions

In a large nonstick skillet, saute onions and garlic in butter until tender. Add wine; simmer, uncovered, for 3 minutes.
Stir in both types of salsa, chilies and lime juice; cook and stir until heated through. Add shrimp and scallops; cook until shrimp turn pink and scallops are opaque. Garnish with cheese. Yield: 8 servings (6 cups).

Nutritional Facts 3/4 cup equals 151 calories, 2 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 90 mg cholesterol, 505 mg sodium, 8 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 20 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 lean meat, 2 vegetable, 1/2 fat.

Originally published as Seafood Pasta Sauce in Light & Tasty June/July 2002, p44