Healthy Main Dishes: Turkey Roasting, Seafood & Keto Entrees

Mastering main dishes requires techniques for moisture retention, safe reheating of seafood, and adapting recipes for Keto or low-sodium dietary needs.

How to Cook a 4-lb. Bottom Rump Roast

The bottom rump roast is a cut of beef that comes from the back leg muscle of a cow. This cut of meat is lean with little to no marbling and can be a tough piece of meat if not prepared correctly.

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Ribeye steak grilled

How to Grill Boneless Rib Eye

Grilled steak is the king of backyard barbecue cooking, and one of the best cuts of beef to use for turning out the juiciest, most flavorful steaks off the grill is boneless rib eye.

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How to Grill Chicken Cutlets

Chicken cutlets are boneless, skinless chicken breast pieces with even thickness throughout, making them well-suited for grilling. Grill them with only light salt and pepper to add protein for a salad, or make a marinade with Asian or Latin American ingredients to make an international main dish.

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Slow-Cooker Pot Roast With Potatoes & Carrots

A slow cooker simplifies your dinner menu by producing a hot meal without a lot of work. Pot roast works well in the slow cooker, also called a crock pot, to create a tender beef dish. Potatoes and carrots cooked with the beef are a natural option as a side dish.

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Oysters

How to Cook Whole Oysters

Oysters are a delicious luxury food that can be unhealthy if improperly prepared and cooked. Always select live oysters when preparing them whole. Dead or older oyster flesh may contain bacteria that can cause vomiting or other nasty symptoms. Oysters contain less than 2 percent fat and over 8 percent protein.

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How Do I Make Baked Pork Chops?

Baking pork is a healthy way to prepare the meat without messing with popping grease in a skillet or heating a grill. When prepared properly in the oven, pork chops come out moist and flavorful, making them the focal point of the meal.

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Marlin and salsa dinner

How to Cook Marlin Steaks

Marlin is warm water ocean fish that is a good source of protein, vitamin B12, niacin, potassium and phosphorus. As a semi-fatty species, marlin stores fat only in parts of its body and its total fat content of between 2 and 10 percent is lower than that of fattier species such as herring or mackerel.

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How to Slow Cook Bacon in the Oven

Frying bacon on the stove top yields crunchy bacon, but it can also result in a greasy mess all over your kitchen. By slow cooking bacon in the oven, you can not only keep the splattering bacon grease contained, but you can also cook perfectly crisp bacon with minimal effort.

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How to Cook or Bake Ground Beef

Ground beef is a freezer staple, especially if you're following a low-carbohydrate diet such as Atkins or Paleo -- or you have a big family. Grass-fed ground beef contains less fat overall and a smaller amount of saturated fat; additionally, it has more healthy omega-3 fats and Vitamin E.

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How to Cook Pizza in a NuWave

Pizza is an all time favorite meal. When you don't want to pay for delivery or leave your house to go and pick up a pizza, the NuWave oven is a quick and easy way to cook your next pizza at home. Cooking in the NuWave can keep you from having to use your oven and reduce the amount of heat in your kitchen.

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How to Grill Bratwurst on Charcoal

Nothing says "summer" like the smoky aroma of food being cooked on a charcoal grill. It brings back memories of simpler days, when people had time to sit around with friends in the sunshine and wait for a perfectly cooked bratwurst to come off the grill.

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How to Cook a Beef Bottom Round Roast Medium Rare

The USDA recommends cooking any beef to a minimum temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit to kill food-borne bacteria, which can multiply rapidly at warm temperatures below this point. However, some beef enthusiasts think this is too much and that 130 degrees Fahrenheit is best for medium-rare beef.

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Grilled tuna steak served on asparagus with roasted zmieniakami

How to Cook Yellowtail Tuna Fish

Though commonly considered tuna -- and similar to a small tuna in appearance --, yellowtail tuna actually belong to the amberjack species. Yellowtail are fast-swimming predatory fish common in U.S. Pacific Ocean waters. The flesh is lighter than tuna, but yellowtail has a similar firm, meaty texture.

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What Oven Settings to Bake Fish

Baking fish is a simple and straightforward cooking method. Once the fish has been scaled, cleaned and filleted, bake it in the oven according to your favorite recipe. When you don’t have a recipe to follow, determine oven temperature and cooking time based on a few factors.

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How to Bake a Pork Butt Steak

The pork butt steak is taken from the Boston butt area of the pig, which is on the front shoulder. In a 250 lb. pig, 8 percent, or 14.7 pounds, will typically be Boston butt, and 4.4 pounds of this will be blade steaks, also called pork butt steak. This is a thin steak, often cut about 1-inch thick.

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How to Grill a Ham Steak

Adding a ham steak to a summer barbecue or winter "cook-in" is a tasty way to add variety to your meals. Grilling ham is quick and easy, but you can dry out a beautiful piece of meat if you do it incorrectly. Prepping your meat and grill are keys to making sure your ham stays moist and delicious.

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How to Cook a 3-lb. Roast of Beef in a Slow Cooker

A slow cooker is a convenient way to cook a beef roast. You put all the ingredients in the cooker and the roast cooks all day while you do other things. The long, slow cooking time tenderizes tougher cuts of meat, allowing you to enjoy leaner, less-expensive roasts such as the chuck or shoulder.

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How to Grill Polish Sausage

Kielbasa, or Polish sausage, has a satisfyingly garlicky flavor and a coarse texture. You'll find it made with ground pork, but some versions also contain ground beef or turkey, and seasoned with garlic, smoke flavoring and marjoram.

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How to Grill Ribs in Foil

According to the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association, manufacturers shipped more than 15 million outdoor grills to stores for purchase in North America in 2010. Businessman and former boxer George Foreman had sold an additional 100 million indoor grills worldwide as of 2010. Ribs remain a grilling favorite.

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