Healthy Christmas recipes that can be tasty and good for you! (Part 2)

Healthy Christmas Recipes – Continued from Part 1

Healthy Christmas Recipes – The Nuts and Bolts

These recipes are so good you won’t even know they are good for you! Let us start with the Christmas bird. Some people live for the skin on the turkey. If that’s not to your liking, consider roasting a skinless turkey, much as you probably would a skinless chicken breast. This single modification saves about 3 grams of fat per serving, a healthy Christmas recipe indeed. How about the stuffing?

Try using less bread cubes and more veggies. Whatever your dearly beloved veggie addition to your stuffing may be, double it and reduce the bread accordingly. Cut up some onions, cut a good quantity of mushrooms, celery or water chestnuts and moisten with a low sodium, low in fat chicken broth and your dearly beloved spices and fresh herbs. Voila! you’ve transformed a starchy, high calorie stuffing into a healthy Christmas recipe!

Healthy Christmas Recipes – Herbs and Spices

Try using herbs and spices, instead of sugar or enormous amounts of salt, to spark the flavor of your dishes. If you are unaccustomed with seasonings, you will find plenty of guidance online, at the library or bookstore. Sweet spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ginger can stand in for sugar in quite a few a recipe. A good example, carrots in an orange and ginger sauce is a dish even a child can have eyes for. Pearl onions, spiced with a small amount of nutmeg, in a low fat creamy sauce are heavenly. Both can be healthy Christmas recipes that have your guests asking for seconds!

A different array of colored brightly, well-seasoned foods produces the festive feel and look of the Christmas party, not the number of pounds of fat, salt and sugar! Healthy Christmas recipes are not an oxymoron. You will need to put on your thinking cap. Merry Christmas! Here is to one less New Year’s resolution!

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