Low-Fat Tortilla Pie Recipe

by She FIt on August 9, 2009

Holla mi amigos!

Hope you are having a great weekend.

Mexican Food has gotten a bad reputation in the for all its greasy, gooey, cheese smothering foods. Have no fear though my weight watchers… this recipe will leave you in a food coma and still losing weight. Today I thought I would share with you a great low calorie Mexican Food Recipe. Check it out:

Healthy La Tortilla Pie

Ingredients

* 1 cup corn kernels

* Sliced Green Onions

* 1 teaspoon ground cumin

* 1 1/2 cup salsa

* 1 can (15-19oz) low sodium black beans, rinsed and drained

* 4 large La Tortilla Low Carb Tortillas- 80 calories

* 1- 1 1/2 cup fat free shredded cheese

* 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro

Directions

* Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray large cookie sheet

* Over medium heat, add corn, green onions, and cumin. Cook for about 3 minutes. Remove skillet from heat; stir in salsa and beans.

* Place 1 tortilla on cookie sheet. Top with 1/2 cup bean mixture and 1/4 cup cheese. Repeat, starting with tortilla, to make 2 more layers. Top with remaining tortilla and cheese.

* Bake the pie for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro

Hope you Enjoy!

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{ 24 comments }

1 Diane, Fit to the Finish August 9, 2009 at 4:07 am: I love, love, love Mexican food. This looks so delicious. I have a quesadilla maker (well, two actually with the 7 kids) and we make quesadillas with black beans once a week for lunch. Yummy.

I’ll try this one too.
2 suzanne August 9, 2009 at 5:33 am: Sounds delish! And pretty easy
3 CaSaundra August 9, 2009 at 6:32 am: I am actually not a huge fan of mexican food(which could be a good thing ha!), but this does look fab!
4 Alison August 9, 2009 at 7:03 am: Looks totally yummy! I completely agree, it’s totally possible to making mexican food amazing but still healthy too.
5 Gina August 9, 2009 at 7:35 am: Mexican food is any dieters worst nightmare, but the great thing is that it can be manipulated so easily! Beans, rice, corn, veggies, I mean it’s so easy to create a healthier mexican meal…thanks for the recipe!
6 Andrea@WellnessNotes August 9, 2009 at 8:01 am: I love Mexican food and making healthier version of it at home. Your recipe sounds great and includes all the flavors that I love…
7 Diana August 9, 2009 at 8:43 am: I agree! Thanks for helping show Mexican can be healthy, too. This sounds tasty!
8 Jo August 9, 2009 at 11:45 am: Yummy!!!
9 april August 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm: Sounds delicious! I love mexican food!
10 Jody - Fit at 51 August 9, 2009 at 5:28 pm: Love the pics! Looks yummy!
11 Britt August 9, 2009 at 6:16 pm: Oh yum, that is right up my alley. I’ll definitely be trying out that recipe, thanks!
12 Bec August 9, 2009 at 6:48 pm: wow this sounds really good
13 Amy August 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm: mmmmm looks so yummy!! i love mexican food, but Hubs doesnt’.. now that he’s gone away a week at a time.. i can start cooking some of my favs… this is a really yummy idea!!!
14 Lee August 9, 2009 at 7:24 pm: That looks really good and I have all of the ingredients in my house!
15 Sophia August 9, 2009 at 8:20 pm: oh that looks gorgeous and oh so healthy! I adore Mexican food, but they can get kinda heavy and make me feel blag. I’ll bet this will leave me feeling perfectly energetic!
16 Diana August 9, 2009 at 8:33 pm: I was thinking of making something like this sometimes soon. I like black beans and corn together.
17 Linda August 9, 2009 at 9:43 pm: Oh wow, does that look fabulous tasting! Thanks so much for the recipe
18 Lara (Thinspired) August 10, 2009 at 3:05 am: This looks great! I would eat it with pounds of salsa Thanks for the recipe!
19 Lainie August 10, 2009 at 9:00 am: My husband and I were just talking about last night how we were craving Mexican food…I think I’m going to make this in the next few days! Thank you for sharing!
20 Faith August 10, 2009 at 9:03 am: This looks incredibly delicious and healthy! Great recipe, thanks!
21 Beth August 10, 2009 at 7:54 pm: oh yum! I’m totally gonna try it!
22 Joanne August 11, 2009 at 5:59 am: Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Even though restaurant Mexican food is bad for dieters, it is actually one of the easiest cuisines to healthify at home! Thanks for showing everyone that it can be done with so much flavor.
23 good-diet-tips October 13, 2009 at 1:50 pm: Hello, pleasant and advisory article. I wish to add a few remarks. If you have upper cholesterol, then you may question, will a low fat diet lower cholesterol? This is a indispensable question, because it is a well known fact that the most effective way to lower cholesterol is over diet. Certainly one ingredient of a diet for lowering cholesterol will include being low in fat. Merely this is single part of the history. It is important to get that it is the supersaturated fattens that you want to eliminate it from the foods you feed.
24 Mexico Lover November 1, 2010 at 6:01 am: Sounds awesome! I just came back from mexico last week and find myself addicted to these incredible enchilada recipes now!! Must go back next year sometime, I think, and this time head off the beaten path a little. Looking to reading more!