Improving the Health of Our Community
Eat your heart out—and stay healthy with our heart diet!
The latest edition of the Heart Diet Book is here, packed with dozens of tips from Franciscan health experts. From delicious recipes and diet strategies to fitness guidelines and goal-setting tools, you’ll find lots of information to keep your heart in top condition.
FREE! St. Joseph Heart Diet
 The St. Joseph Heart & Vascular Center is proud to work with our community partners to reach out to the community with ideas for healthy living.
The St. Joseph Heart Diet Book offers delicious quick and easy recipes for heart healthy meals. Along the way, the book provides information on how to stock a heart-healthy kitchen, tips on ordering at restaurants and on helping your kids eat well.
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Heart Healthy Recipe of the Month:
Cioppino Shrimp over Pasta
Serve with green salad
A fast & simple Italian seafood menu
Serves 4
Although shellfish has dietary cholesterol, it has almost no saturated fat, which is the culprit for raising your cholesterol.
 1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
8 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1 cup red wine
½ teaspoon fennel seed (optional but delicious)
1 teaspoon oregano
½ teaspoon basil
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
2 carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, thinly sliced
12 mushrooms, sliced
1 14-oz can diced tomatoes
2 tablespoon tomato paste
1 pound pink shrimp, peeled and deveined
8 ounces whole wheat pasta
- Heat oil in large nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Sauté onion and garlic until golden. Add wine, scraping up any browned bits from the pan.
- Add peppers, carrots, celery, mushrooms, tomatoes, tomato paste, herbs and spices, and pepper. Cover pan tightly and simmer slowly for 20 minutes.
- Add shrimp to pan, cover and simmer for an additional 5 minutes, or until shrimp turns pink. Be careful not to overcook at this step so that the shrimp remains juicy.
- While cioppino is cooking, boil whole wheat pasta. Serve cioppino over pasta if desired.
Per serving, without pasta: 257 calories, 24 gm protein, 22 gm carbohydrate, 4 gm fat, 1 gm sat fat, 3 gm mono, 173 mg cholesterol, 6 gm fiber, 324 mg sodium
Per serving, with 2 ounces pasta: 448 calories, 31 gm protein, 64 gm carbohydrates, 5 gm fat, 1 gm sat fat, 3 gm mono, 173 mg cholesterol 7 gm fiber, 327 mg sodium
THE SEASONED COOK notes that it sounds like a lot of garlic, but you’ll be surprised at how mild the garlic flavor is when prepared this way. For a more hearty meal, serve over whole wheat pasta. If you don’t cook with wine, substitute chicken or vegetable broth.
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