Vegetarian "Cheese Steak" Nachos

I have not be inventing much since I started my quest for the perfect chili. I've been cleaning out my freezer, and not being terribly creative. Today, I made up for it. I had a Portobella Cap in my fridge, and was craving something I remember eating once, a portobella popover sandwich. It was sautéed portobella, cheese peppers and onions. I decided to try and make it. Upon further investigation I realized the only bread I had on hand was cinnamon swirl toasting bread (or pop tarts). But I decided weird is as weird does, and moved on to some other form of carbs. I had this huge bag of unsalted tortilla chips I got at Wild Oats. So I decided to get great in the nacho department. I did grill the mushroom head instead of sautéing it. But first I marinated it in my Pesto Salad Dressing.

Ingredients.

• 1 Portobella Mushroom Cap per serving.


• 2 slices of Swiss cheese per serving


• 1/2 - 1 bell pepper chopped per serving


• 1/2 onion chopped per serving


• 2T Pesto salad dressing


• cooking spray


• Tortilla chips (unsalted)

Directions
Pour marinade in shallow dish coat top of mushroom, turn over let soak into the bottom. Preheat nonstick pan. Add cooking spray. On low-medium heat sauté onions and peppers. Grill Mushroom cap. When peppers and mushrooms are soft, add sliced cheese and a table spoon of water, cover and steam until cheese is nice and melted. When Mushroom is done, remove from grill and slice into chunks. Add peppers and cheese on top of chips, and top with mushroom chunks. I did not even use a salsa or a dressing.

Alternatively you can skip the marinade, slice the mushroom and sauté with the peppers and onions if you like. I just like pesto.

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Most of the sodium and fat came from the dressing and the cheese.
My dressing was about 50mg sodium and 1 g of fat the cheese was 100 mg of sodium and 12 g of fat. The chips had 0 sodium and 5.5 g of fat ( the chips really are fantastic - the brand is Garden Fresh Salsa Company - 1-866-725-7239)

Calories: 307 fat calories 109
Fat: 18.5 mg
Sodium 150 mg
Cutting back on the cheese would drop a lot of the fat.
I am in weight gain mode at the moment. My new name seems to be Minny as in "skinny minny". But I still try to keep my fat calories at less than 1/2 total. I do pretty well.

Eating Healthy Since Feb, 2004