3.8.23 / Nutrition
RDN Day: Celebrating Our RDNs
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3.12.21
/ Nutrition
This National Nutrition Month, we’ll be featuring chicken meals designed by our Registered Dietitian Nutritionists from around our world to celebrate diversity, inclusion, and the importance of delicious healthy eating. All the meals are low fat (and with heart healthy fats), high in fiber, balanced, nutritious and (most importantly) delicious!
RDN: Ronnie Fortunato, MS, RDN, MBA
Country: Italy
Why This Meal: I chose to use this dish as a healthy option for Italian-American cuisine. Much “Italian” food does not stay faithful to the healthy Mediterranean diet, with excess cheese and fried meats (think chicken parmigiana or other parmigiana dishes), but this one has no cheese, is lightly sautéed, and is full of vegetables. In fact, while I reduced the amount of chicken and oil the original 4-serving dish called for, I kept all the vegetables for the 2-serving one. On a personal note, my Italian grandmother cooked this way – simply and healthfully. I learned to love peppers, onions, mushrooms, and other vegetables at her table. When I started studying nutrition, it amazed me how our ancestors knew how to put healthy dishes together somewhat intuitively, for example, using legumes in place of meat as an inexpensive alternative.
Tips from Ronnie: The caccia in cacciatore means “hunt,” so this is chicken hunter’s-style. I’ve always tried to figure out why this particular dish is called cacciatore or hunters’ style. The dish calls for minimal processing – everything can be thrown into a pot and cooked all together, although that’s not how it’s cooked today. I imagine hunters spending a day gathering the ingredients, then heating them all in a pot over a fire. My dish called for an extra pot for the pasta. Potatoes would have been a good choice too – they could have been cooked with the vegetables, then simmered with everything else.
Serving size: 2
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