Sliders.

I miss bar food. Little mini hamburgers and the chicken wings. ALL the little finger food you get at your local pub. I am always in search of something that is healthy and quick that will satisfy my craving for those things that I crave that I probably should not eat. Although I do love those East Points Pub wings. (CAN'T give those up)

Any whoo so on this installment of Deevah's Dish we are going to make some AWESOME Sliders that is a variance on the Philly Cheese Steak that are only 7 points.

Hungry Girl’s Philly Cheesesteak Sliders-The Wheat Version.

PER SERVING (entire recipe, 3 sliders): 295 calories, 8.5g fat, 653mg sodium, 21g carbs, 3g fiber, 3.5g sugars, 33g protein -- PointsPlus® value 7*

One of the easiest ways to make three perfect slider buns? Cut up a hot dog bun! This version is beefy, cheesy, and Philly-licious!

Ingredients:
1/4 cup thinly sliced onion
1/4 cup sliced mushrooms
1/2 tsp. chopped garlic
4 oz. thinly sliced raw lean filet beefsteak (see HG Tip!)
Dash each salt and black pepper
1 light hot dog bun (I used a whole wheat bun)
1 slice fat-free American cheese

Directions:
Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat on the stove. Add onion, mushrooms, and garlic. Stirring often, cook until slightly browned, 3 - 4 minutes. Remove from the skillet and set aside.

Remove skillet from heat, re-spray with nonstick spray, and bring to medium-high heat. Add beef and season with salt and pepper. Cook for about 1 minute per side, flipping gently, until fully cooked. Remove beef from the skillet and set aside.

Split open the hot dog bun without separating the halves. Pile veggies onto one side and top with the beef. Tear cheese into 2 strips, and evenly place over the beef. Gently close the sandwich to keep filling from escaping.

Remove skillet from heat, re-spray with nonstick spray, and return to medium-high heat. Carefully place sandwich in the skillet with one of the bun's flat sides down. Cook until cheese has melted and bun is lightly browned, about 1 minute per side, flipping carefully and pressing down with a spatula to seal.

Using a serrated knife, evenly slice into 3 pieces. Eat up!

MAKES 1 SERVING

HG Tip! Slightly freeze the beef before slicing it -- this will make thinly slicing it easier!

HG Alternative: Can't locate any 80-calorie light hot dog buns? No worries. Just get the lowest-calorie buns you can find and adjust the calorie count of this recipe accordingly!

Now, you can pretty much do anything you want this. I used lean stir fry strips in stead of what the recipe called for. I used portabella mushrooms because that was what I had. We also didn't feel like cutting up a onion, so we used some frozen onion. But you prepare everything below. 

So I basically just pulled apart the stirfry meat and seasoned it with some Mrs. Dash Original, garlic salt and pepper. I cut up my mushrooms my self and there you see the froze onion. (STOP JUDGING ME) :) 

Next we cooked up the veggies in a pan with some Pam Cooking Spray, the olive oil verson until it was brown. 

Now, at this point Tyra thought we should have put in more mushrooms, so you can't see her off to the side chopping more mushrooms. But when we were doing sautee-ing, this is what it looked like. 

 See the steam rising off the meat. Just a SN: make sure you beat the meat up before you cook it, using the stirfry meat. It was a little tough. But now you are ready to start making them.

First make sure you spray the pan with some cooking spray. I use Pam Olive Oil Stray. Then get your hotdog buns and put them in the pant to fill. DON"T TURN ON THE ISLE WHILE DOING THIS. You are going to put the oinon nushroom garlic mix on one said. And the meat mixture on the other.. Cut a slice of cheese on the meat side and close her up.

 So you are almost done. You just need to close them up and brown them in a pan. The cheese is going to fuse them together into the slider. I would say depending on how soft you want your bun is how long you cook them.

 Thing once you do that, you will be all finished and they will look like this. WE had Tator tots with our. 9 of the tots is 4 points.

 

Pretty tasty huh?

So what did I learn this week. I think I have been missing out on life. I really do love to cook and now that I know I am putting good things into my body. I don't need to go out and get Fast Food as much. Although I am craving some custard right now :) I think we nust need to really start being responsible for what we put in our bodies. Not to say I won't EVER go to another Fast Food Resturant again, but we do need to start holding those places accountable for what they are feeding us. If we demand better quality of food they would have to supply it. (Just my two cents)

I do have 2 more slider recipes that i will be doing in the upcoming weeks as a adendum to this, but I would imagine that you could change the meat out for anthing you want as long as it's lean. :) 

 Thanks Tyra for your help this week :)