{"id":174,"date":"2012-02-02T19:09:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2012-02-02T19:09:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:09:51","slug":"alfredo-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/2012\/02\/02\/alfredo-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfredo Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorites recipes and it is LOW FAT!\u00a0 Or at least as low fat as an Alfredo sauce can be, LOL!\u00a0 I got this from a recipe collection I have called &#8220;Healthy Meals in Minutes&#8221; and it is the one recipe I use most often.<\/p>\n<p>Serves 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 tblsp margarine<\/p>\n<p>2 cloves of garlic, minced<\/p>\n<p>1 tblsp all-purpose flour<\/p>\n<p>1 1\/4 cup skim milk (1 use 1% as this is what I have in my house)<\/p>\n<p>3 tblsp light cream cheese, softened<\/p>\n<p>3\/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melt butter in a medium sauce pan over medium heat, add garlic and cook stirring for 1 minute.\u00a0 Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute.\u00a0 Whisk in milk until blended and cook, whisking constantly until thickened about 7 minutes.\u00a0 Stir in Cream Cheese and cook for 2 minutes.\u00a0 Stir in Parmesan until blended and pour over a pound of your favorite cooked pasta.\u00a0 Garnish as you please with parsley, black pepper, or even crushed red pepper!\u00a0 I usually pour it over a 14oz. bag of cooked tortellini!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Start cooking the sauce right after you put you pasta in the boiling water to cook.\u00a0 By the time the sauce is done, so is the pasta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorites recipes and it is LOW FAT!\u00a0 Or at least as low fat as an Alfredo sauce can be, LOL!\u00a0&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/2012\/02\/02\/alfredo-recipe\/\" title=\"Read More\">[Read More&#8230;] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/averageamericanfamily.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}