The holiday season has a tradition of being filled with confraternities with excess salty snacks, sweets and caloric foods, damaging the diet and favoring weight gain.
To keep track of the balance, you need to use healthy ingredients and seek to make healthy, but full of flavor dishes. Some examples are to swap the Christmas fried French toast for french toast in the oven and swap the mayonnaise of the salpicão for natural yogurt. So, with small tips you can make better choices and that will not take away the taste of delicious Christmas parties.
Vaja to follow 5 recipes to enjoy the end of the year with health and no fights with the scale:
1. Baking Oven
The French toast is traditionally fried in oil, which adds many bad calories to this dish. So baking it in the oven is a great option to reduce calories and make the dish healthier. See 10 other healthy exchanges to keep your diet going.
Ingredients:
- 200 g cream
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar or demerara or coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 whole egg
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- 6 wholegrain breads dawned
- 1 baking sheet or shape with low edges
- Butter or coconut oil to spread the form
- Cinnamon to taste to sprinkle
Method of preparation:
In a bowl, put the sour cream, sugar, egg the essence of vanilla and nutmeg, mixing well with a spoon. Slice the bread and dip the slices into the bowl mixture, then put them in the already greased form. Bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle the cinnamon.
2. Light Salpicão
To make a light salpic, good tips are to add fresh fruit in the recipe, grated or chopped vegetables and exchange the mayonnaise with natural yogurt, using herbs, garlic and pepper to give more flavor to the dish.
Ingredients:
- 1 cooked and shredded chicken breast;
- 1 carrot grated in the thin drain;
- 1 green apple sliced into thin slices;
- 3 tablespoons chopped parsley;
- 1 cup of celery, cut into thin slices or into small pieces;
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts;
- 1 lemon juice;
- 1 pot of skimmed natural yogurt (about 160 ml);
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 2 tablespoons olive oil;
- 2 tablespoons raisins (optional);
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Method of preparation:
In the blender or in the processor, beat the yogurt, lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic and olive oil in the blender. Then, combine the ingredients beaten with walnuts, raisins, apple, celery and shredded chicken breast in a bowl. Mix well and store in the refrigerator until serving time.
3. Healthy Peru
Turkey is the most traditional Christmas dish, and can be more nutritious when we include healthy ingredients such as olive oil, vegetables and herbs.
Ingredients:
- 1 turkey
- Salt to taste to season
- ½ cup olive oil
- 2 large chopped onions
- 4 chopped carrots
- 4 chopped celery stalks
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- ½ cup balsamic vinegar
Method of preparation:
Season the whole turkey, inside and out, with salt. Put the turkey in a pan and cover with cold water, letting rest in the refrigerator for 12h. Remove the turkey from the refrigerator, throw away the salt water, rinse well the turkey in running water and brush with olive oil.
Fill the cavity of the turkey with an onion, half the carrots, half the celery, a branch of thyme and the bay leaf. Spread the remaining vegetables and thyme on the baking sheet around the turkey and water with the balsamic vinegar. Bake uncovered, for about 4h in a preheated oven at 180ºC.
4. Low Carb Farofa
Ingredients:
- 1 grated onion
- 2 grated carrots
- 4 cloves garlic
- 6 tablespoons almond or flaxseed flour
- 25 cashew nuts
- 10 chopped green olives
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley (optional)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 pinch of powdered pepper
- 1 pinch of curry (optional)
- 1 pinch of ginger powder (optional)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 scrambled eggs
Method of preparation:
Knead the garlic with the salt and brown the garlic and the onion grated in the butter. Add the carrot, chopped parsley, pepper, curry and ginger powder, letting cook for about 4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Turn off the heat and add the scrambled eggs and the chopped olives and mix. Cut roughly or beat in the blender the cashew nuts and add in the mixture along with the almond or flaxseed flour.
5. Pineapple Light Mousse
The light pineapple mousse is full of flavor and practical to make. Pineapple aids in digestion and natural yogurt is rich in tryptophan, an amino acid that helps you relax and unwind at the end of the supper.
Ingredients:
- 1 sweet pineapple
- 3 glasses of natural yogurt
- 2 boxes of gelatin flavor light pineapple
Method of preparation:
Chop the pineapple into small pieces, put in a pan, cover with water and let cook for about 20 minutes. Add the gelatins and mix well, then turn off the heat. After the mixture cool down slightly, put to hit the blender along with the yogurts. Pour into bowls and put in refrigerator for 4 hours to harden.
