Showing posts with label Homemade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homemade. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Healthy Salad Dressings - Delicious Homemade Salad Dressings

Choose light, healthy salad dressings to enhance your summer salads. Try these healthier homemade alternatives to the traditional vinaigrette.

A salad is not just a salad without some dressing - but how you can avoid dousing the whole lot in high-fat dressing, so any attempt to ruin a healthy diet?

Homemade dressings are always a better choice than a commodity, because you can control what is in them. ManyBottled dressings are very heavily sweetened, and contain a strong dose of additives. Keep your dressings simply by itself - it will taste better too.

Use low-fat ingredients. If you use a creamy dressing for your salad, low-fat mayonnaise or low-fat or fat-free yogurt or cottage cheese as the base. Tip: Mix 3 / 4 cup mayonnaise with 1 / 4 cup cream cheese for a milder taste. Whisk in 2 tablespoons vinegar, and flavor with a hint of DijonMustard, some Worcestershire sauce or freshly chopped herbs.

Try different oils ... olive oil is a good, healthy choice, but the taste can be very dominant. Consider lighter oils such as sunflower and groundnut oil, or obtained from any oil from nuts. Walnut and hazelnut oil has a different way, but excellent flavor marries well with many different ingredients. To the amount of oil that you are trying to reduce, you replace the third with vegetable oil.

... and variousVinegar. Fruit-flavored vinegar, such as raspberry, excellent dressings. Herbal vinegars are also good, or try a variety that includes chili and garlic. You do not use vinegar, lemon juice as well as emulsified with oil. Try lemon, lime, orange or grapefruit juice. Each has its own special characteristics that zing into your dressings.

Measure the quantity. It's all very well your own delicious, with no additives dress, but this is not aExcuse for spilling it on himself with a liberal hand. A tablespoon of oil-based organization could receive up to 80 calories to your salad, it should for a light drizzle, rather than abandon them with the casting.

The next time you make a salad dressing the part of the whole dish, not retroactively. The beauty of homemade dressings is that they are very quickly put it together. Make healthy salad dressings for a regular part SaladRepertoire.



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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Pork Chops With Tomato Rice, Homemade Salad Dressing and a Bundt Cake All Diabetic Friendly

It is time to help the economic family recipes for families who have difficulty with their food budgets. Here is a menu that allows you, your family will feed without breaking your food budget. We start with pork chops with tomato rice. In that one dish your meat, cereals and vegetables. Add homemade Russian salad dressing to salad greens with grated carrots, and you end your meal with a dessert, apple sauce and cinnamon-raisin cake that complements fruitYour menu. There you have it - an easy, tasty, economical meal for your family. And the whole menu is diabetic friendly.

Pork Chops with Tomato Rice

4 thick pork chops
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
1 / 8 teaspoon pepper
1 can (16oz) can stewed tomatoes
1 / 2 cup water
1 / 2 cup of brown rice, too

In a large, heavy, deep pan sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, brown chops on both sides. Season with salt and pepper. Spread tomatoes and water, with rice. Coverfound very low heat and simmer 50 to 60 minutes or until chops are tender. Add more water if necessary, later in cooking.

HOMEMADE RUSSIAN Salad Dressing

1 cup olive oil
1 cup ketchup
1 cup Splenda
2 / 3 cup cider vinegar
1 / 2 teaspoon salt
1 clove garlic, minced

Mix all ingredients in a blender glass. Pulse until well mixed. Refrigerate in a cruet or jar with lid.

Applesauce-raisin-cinnamon cake

3 cupsWater, divided
1 1 / 4 cup raisins
2 1 / 2 cups unsweetened applesauce
3 eggs, beaten, or 3 / 4 cup egg substitute
1 1 / 2 cups Equal Sugar-Lite
1 cup canola oil
3 cups self-rising flour
3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
1 / 4 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons vanilla sugar
Non-stick vegetable oil spray

In a large heavy saucepan 2 1 / 2 cups of water and combine the raisins, bring to boil. Continue to cook until the water is gone. Remove from heat. Add applesauce, eggs,Equal, oil and remaining water. Stir well to combine. Sift together flour, cinnamon and baking soda. Gradually blend flour, the applesauce mixture, stirring constantly after each addition.

Spray a 10-inch Bundt pan with vegetable oil spray. Spoon batter into the pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing from pan. Cool on a wire rack.

Cake should be served cut into 28 thin slices. Diabeticsshould only eat one serving per day.

Enjoy!



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