Mrs. Leeper’s gluten-free pasta products are not our favorite pastas, but the pasta dinners the company makes are a great thing to have on hand when you need a quick and easy gluten-free dinner. The meals are a gluten-free version of Hamburger Helper meals.
The Creamy Tuna dinner is a pretty good tasting dish and since you don’t have to pre-cook the tuna, it’s also the easiest and quickest dinner to make. The creamy sauce is fairly light, yet quite flavorful at the same time. Mrs. Leeper’s corn pasta tastes a little too much like corn for my liking. Since tuna has a pretty strong flavor itself, the flavor of the pasta in the meal is somewhat overshadowed by the tuna and the tasty sauce.
The Cheeseburger Mac meal from Mrs. Leeper’s can be made with ground beef, tofu or turkey. We usually use the latter in order to reduce the fat content (compared to beef) of the dinner. Though the box states the meal takes fifteen minutes to prepare, it actually takes that long after the meat has been browned. If you use tofu, you can probably make the dinner in fifteen minutes. Overall, the meal has great flavor, the pasta is decent and eating it might take people of a certain age back to the 1970’s, when the Hamburger Helper version of this dinner was introduced.
We much prefer the pasta in the rice pasta in the Cheeseburger Mac pasta to the corn pasta in the Creamy Tuna meal. Though not our favorite type of pasta, we usually prefer most rice pastas to corn pastas. The exceptions are some of the finer corn pastas from Italy. Those products taste nothing at all like the corn pastas made with American grown corn. The difference between them is night and day, in fact.
Mrs. Leeper’s also offers several other gluten-free meals that call for a protein to be added, but vegetables could be used instead. The Beef Stroganoff was a little too salty for our tastes. The Beef Lasagna is pretty good and I’ve not seen the Chicken Alfredo in our area yet. If I find it I would use the Purdue cooked chicken (labeled gluten-free) in it, so it would actually only 15 minutes to make.
Check out this easy looking recipe on the Mrs. Leeper’s site – Gluten-free Mediterranean Baked Pasta. This dish looks particularly tasty in this dreary, cold we’re having GA these days and any gluten-free pasta could be used to make it! Mrs. Leeper’s now apparently makes a gluten-free Mac-N-Cheese (rice pasta) dinner. Amazon.com is letting customers sign up to find out when it’s available. Now that - I simply must try!
UPDATE: The new Mac-N-Cheese from Mrs. Leepers should be available on Dec. 19th at Return to Eden in Atlanta.
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