South Beach Eggplant Parmesan

This South Beach Eggplant Parmesan is one of my favorite ways to eat eggplant. No breading, just eggplant, cheese, and marinara.  This Eggplant Parmesan is melt-in-your-mouth delicious! There’s no breading, which makes them gluten-free, lower in carbs, and really easy to prepare!

The South Beach Part of this recipe is the no-sugar spaghetti sauce, along with the lack of breading. The ease is that the eggplant is sliced and cook. No peeling, no salting, just layer in the baking dish. This is tasty and healthy. It is a good dish for a vegetarian who is watching carb intake.

Melissa Clark (@MelissaClark), Food writer for the New York Times, does not peel eggplants when cooking. Who am I to argue? The skin is tender when you cook it for 45 minutes. And by not peeling, it makes this dish very easy to prepare.

The South Beach Diet

South Beach Diet is named after the South Beach section of Miami. It is a modified low-carb diet. It is lower in carbs and higher in protein and healthy fats than your typical eating plan. But it’s really not a strict low-carb diet.

The South Beach Diet was created in 2003 by cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, M.D.  South Beach preaches that it is a healthy way of eating, whether you want to lose weight or not. The purpose of South Beach is to change the overall balance of the foods you eat. This encourages weight loss and promotes a healthy lifestyle.  (https://www.southbeachdiet.com/how-it-works/index.jsp)

Exercise

South Beach recommends exercise as an important part of healthy living. They say that regular exercise will boost your metabolism and help prevent weight-loss plateaus. Without exercise, it seems to derail other low-carb diets.

Diet details

South Beach includes complex carbs, lean protein, and healthy fats. Complex carbs are also known as the “good carbs,” which include whole grains, fruit, beans, vegetables, and legumes. It is a fiber-rich diet that you can follow for a “lifetime of healthy eating”. Simple carbs, or “bad” carbs, include sugar, syrup, and baked goods made from refined white flour.

The simplistic view cuts out the “White Food” – processed sugar, white bread, white flour, pasta, among others. Processed food – BAD. Fresh fruit, lean protein & veggies – GOOD.

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If you liked our recipe for South Beach – Eggplant Parmesan, you might also enjoy our other recipes. We recommend trying our recipe for South Beach Salmon with Creamy Lemon Sauce. For dessert, try our recipe for Ricotta Almond Creme

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