Black Bean and Mushroom Casserole

Black Bean & Mushroom Casserole

You guessed it - this is not a story review.  But this is my blog and I dig this and I thought you might dig it too.

As most of you know - my doctor told me to eliminate wheat from my diet.  I have a couple of conditions that require me to stay really healthy and she felt like wheat elimination was something that would lower my blood pressure, lower my blood sugar, help me with fluid retention, and boost my weight loss.  That's some really delicious discussion right before you read my recipe, but I wanted to give you a why...

Now - when you LOVE PASTA and also LOVE BREAD, cutting wheat is quite difficult.  She told me "eat whole foods" witch I have found to be pretty easy but the pasta - I really miss pasta.  I LOVE SPAGHETTI SAUCE!!  Before she told me to cut it out I ate pasta everyday.  Finding something to substitute for pasta is not all that easy.  You can have the sauce and not the pasta, you can have the peanut butter but you can't make a sandwich.

So I am making stuff up in my kitchen and I thought you might like to hear about it every now and then.  I have created Black Bean and Mushroom Casserole.  Maybe this is yucky to you (I don't know) but it's DELICIOUS to me and it has no pasta and very little calories so I think it's PERFECT!!

Ingredients:

Nonstick cooking spray

1 can black beans

1 can mushrooms

1 - 2 cups Prego Fresh Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce

1-2 cups cheese (whatever kind you like - try to use 2% because you just don't need the calories).

Spray a small casserole dish with the nonstick cooking spray.  Drain the black beans in a colander and rinse them well.  Mix the beans and the spaghetti sauce in a bowl.  You want the mixture to be thick - but soupy enough to make it casserole consistency. I love the sauce so I put a lot in there.  

Drain the mushrooms and layer them in the bottom of the casserole dish.  Layer the bean mixture on top of the mushrooms.  Cover the top with cheese.

Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes - until the casserole is bubbling and the cheese is melty.

To me this can be eaten as a main dish with a salad and it is sooooo delicious!!  You could also serve it as a side dish for chicken or I think you could serve it over pasta too.

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