Know any easy peasy light low fat dressings for pasta which arent tomato based?!
Know any easy peasy light low fat dressings for pasta which arent tomato based?
I'm hoping to make a low fat pasta with steamed chicken, mushrooms and broccoli. I only wanta light sauce to literally moisten it. low fat....i'd usually just pop on some cream..ouch..any ideas?
Answers:
Pesto sauce! A good supermarket should have the kind in a jar, and some frozen foods sections have little tubs of frozen pesto. Stir some of this into cooked pasta, sprinkle with good-grade Parmesan cheese and 'loosen up' with a smidge of olive oil. I use pesto as an all-purpose no-stick additive to all my cooked pasta dishes--whether I use tomato-based sauces with meat or whatever...start with pesto! Added advantage is that you can keep a pesto'd pasta [once drained, of course] warm without its sticking together while you finish the final touches on the rest of the dinner. A couple of tablespoons of pesto is enuf for a batch of cooked pasta for 4.