Fried Tomatoes with Mushroom Sauce

Fried Tomatoes with Mushroom Sauce

This combination of fresh tomatoes, basil, and mushroom soup is as close to prefection as a vegetable dish may ever come.

Serves 6 (scant 1/2 cup)


6 tablespoons flour
1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper
4 fresh medium red tomatoes, sliced
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon reduced calorie margarine
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can Campbell's Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom soup
1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried basil


In a saucer, combine flour and lemon pepper. Dip tomato slices in flour mixture. Melt Margarine in a large skillet. Place tomato slices in skillet. Cook tomatoes over low heat until lightly browned on both sides. Remove to heated platter. Stir mushroom soup and basil into skillet. Heat. Pour sauce evenly over tomatoes. Serve at once.


Each serving equals:
HE: 2/3 Vegetable, 1/3 Bread, 1/3 Fat, 1/4 Slider, 8 Optional Calories
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81 Calories, 2gm Fat, 2gm Protein,
14gm Carbohydrate, 229mg Sodium, 1gm Fiber
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DIABETIC: 1 Vegetable, 1/2 Starch, 1/2 Fat

"Healthy Exchanges Cookbook, pg. 125."