Healthy Recipes?!
Answers: I want to help my family eat healthier this month so I would like some healthy recipes, Especially dinner. I'm 13 but I love to cook and bake, but it can't be anything extremely difficult. I liek to use whole wheat pastas and rice and my family is not picky at all. I can't buy good fish where I live and I can't really get whole wheat flour if you suggest that either. Thanks! :)
Way to go helping out like this.
I would suggest lots of green salads. You can buy the stuff already chopped even. Or just ask Mom to pick up lots of different fresh veggies and mix and match them each night. You can make simple salad dressings with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, or buy light or fat free dressings to make them healthier.
You can make salad as a meal...add grilled chicken, fajita steak, taco meat, lean bacon, tuna...some other stuff that is really good on salad include sunflower nuts, sesame seeds, chow mein noodles.
You can also use homemade or bottled healthier salad dressings to marinate meat and to splash on pasta instead of alfredo sauce.
My fav meat, and it's super healthy and cheap...is ground turkey. It works for any recipe that calls for hamburger, so it's pretty easy to work with.
You can make healthier baked goods with things like quick bread (banana and zucchini, pumpkin, etc.) and oatmeal cookies, apple cake, and fruit desserts. If you want to cut the fat in chocolate cake and brownie mixes, use choc syrup instead of oil. You can also substitute applesauce for oil if the taste suits the recipe.
Removing about half the yolks from your scrambled eggs help cut cholesterol...to do this, crack it clean, then hold it up in the air and tip the contents back and forth from one half of the shell to the other. The white will ooze out of the shell, the yolk will stay put. Use yolks of half your eggs to keep the pretty color and no one will miss the other half.
The best way to prepare cooked veg is to steam them. It's easy in the microwave, just add a couple tablespoons of water to the bowl and cover with saran wrap.
Go with your mom to the store and browse around in the spices and herbs. You will find a lot of different stuff that helps cut salt and oil without giving up flavor. With some research and experimenting, you will learn how to use them, and what goes with what.
Pasta With Cauliflower
1 (16 ounce) box whole wheat pasta
1 head cauliflower
3/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons garlic
2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
Boil Cauliflower until soft.
Saute garlic in oil and crushed red pepper.
When cauliflower is soft, add it to garlic and oil.
Boil pasta in the same water used for cauliflower.
Add cauliflower to pasta.
Baked chicken breasts
Marinate them in Italian dressing for about 1 hour then roll in Italian style bread crumbs that have Parmesan and Romano cheeses mixed in - bake at 375 degrees F for 45 minutes to 1 hour depending upon how thick/big they are. Serve with smashed potatoes, green beans and maybe some gravy. It is easy, fast and very tasty.