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Showing posts with label GUILT FREE RECIPES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GUILT FREE RECIPES. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Avocado Egg Salad

March 03, 2016
Avocado Egg Salad
This quick as well as HEALTHY alter to mayo-laden egg salad was a huge success; we didn't immature adult woman the mayo at all!! It was low-cal as well as delicious as well as packed alongside flavor. I tin run into countless possibilities alongside this picayune recipe (I'm already planning to add together a few greenish onions? hot sauce?).

Personally, I enjoyed this salad simply wrapped inwards a large foliage of lettuce, but Picky-Picky married adult man went for the traditional sandwich.
4 difficult boiled eggs, peeled as well as chopped
1 large ripe avocado
2 stalks celery chopped finely
1/3 loving cup diced Lycopersicon esculentum flesh (see note)
2 tablespoons prepared yellowish mustard (see note)
salt to gustation (I simply added a pinch)
pepper to gustation (see note)

NOTE: NO MAYONNAISE!!

Cut the avocado inwards half, take away the pit as well as squeeze the flesh (I mashed nearly 3/4 of the flesh into a smoothen glue as well as left 1/4 of the flesh inwards picayune chunks.

Stir the prepared yellowish mustard, common salt as well as pepper into the mashed avocado,  mix well.

Add the chopped eggs, celery as well as Lycopersicon esculentum as well as stir gently until good mixed.  That's it!!


NOTE: I wasn't certain how to explicate "tomato flesh"; it simply agency piece of occupation out out the juicy-seedy usage of the tomato.

NOTE: Two tablespoons of yellowish mustard is going to appear similar a lot, but the lastly production does NOT gustation overly mustardy, trust me. I simply used plainly onetime yellowish hot domestic dog mustard.

NOTE: I gear upwards alongside coarsely dry reason dark pepper, thence I used a scant
half teaspoon. If yous usage finely dry reason pepper (it measures differently) usage less.

NOTE: I set this salad inwards the refrigerator for several hours without whatever avocado darkening problems because I set plastic twine correct on the surface of the salad as well as pressed downwards a picayune to forcefulness out all of the air. I'm non certain if it would plough dark overnight because it never lasts that long at our house.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Baked Murphy Chips

March 01, 2016
Baked Murphy Chips
When I am on a diet, (who am I kidding, I'm ever on a diet) my weight loss invention starts to falter when I larn a craving for something crunchy in addition to salty. I'm non talking nearly raw fruits in addition to veggie type of crunchy, I'm talking nearly murphy flake crunchy. If I ignore this craving, it but gets stronger; does that audio familiar to anyone?

I did about online searching for a remedy to my craving that wouldn't accept a billion calories. I flora iii different recipes for baked murphy chips that sounded promising.

After trying all three (and immediately tossing all iii into the garbage), I decided to brand upward my ain version. I must tell I'm quite pleased amongst it. 

Not exclusively does this petty recipe completely satisfy my "crunchy flake craving" but the ENTIRE RECIPE only has i tablespoon of olive oil!!

Wash in addition to dry out half dozen golf game ball size Yukon gilt potatoes. Slice them every bit sparse every bit possible. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mandolin would run good for this, but I but used my sharpest knife in addition to sliced them; but attempt to brand them all an fifty-fifty thickness.


Toss the sliced potatoes amongst 1 tablespoon of olive oil, making certain that a petty of the petroleum gets inward betwixt every slice. Lay the slices out on a heavy cookie canvas that has been lightly sprayed amongst vegetable spray, in addition to thus sprinkle the potatoes lightly amongst kosher salt.

Baking fourth dimension is important. One of the recipes I tried (and threw away) called for two hours at 200°F. That produced a dull, leathery spell of potato. I even let it create an extra HOUR in addition to it was notwithstanding leathery...yuck.  Another recipe called for eighteen minutes at 400°F which produced a crisp but burnt taste...yuck again.

So I decided to attempt Yukon gilt potatoes. How long you lot bake them volition depend on how thick you lot sliced your potatoes in addition to how hot your oven runs. I baked mine inward a 375°F electrical oven for 22 minutes, flipping them over one-half means through the baking time....just right.


These chips are meant to be eaten correct away because they are non meant to hold out stored similar a commercial murphy chip. There are small-scale "non-crunch" parts on the chips that would non shop well.

I promise you lot volition attempt these. They accept a WONDERFUL flavour in addition to a fantastic, salty crunch!!!

NOTE:  Watch the chips closely the final brace of minutes because i time they outset to plough golden, they darken quickly.
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Monday, February 29, 2016

Baked Sugariness Murphy Fries

February 29, 2016
Baked Sugariness Murphy Fries
Oh my goodness, these baked sweet potato fries are tasty AND depression calorie!! Even my picky picky married adult man said they were proficient THREE TIMES during dinner. Now that is a record!!

 
 
 

Keep inward heed that y'all are non going to larn a CRISPY child (because they are baked) but they ARE addictingly tasty together with hand y'all that "a footling sweetness a footling salty" season that hits all the right
comfort notes. Crisp or not, I could easily consume a large bowl of these together with non experience guilty at all....now THAT is proverb something.

2 medium sweetness potatoes
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 teaspoons corn starch
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon regular chili pulverization (see note)
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika (see note)
1/2  teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon brown sugar

OK, a give-and-take close yams/sweet potatoes. Don't inquire me which is which. I ever purchase the ane amongst the deep orangish flesh, thence I'm calling them sweetness potatoes inward this post.

PRE-HEAT YOUR OVEN to 400°F.

Peel the sweetness potatoes together with cutting them into French fries. Soak inward H2O for ane hr (important), together with then drain together with pat them dry.

Put the potatoes inward a bowl together with sprinkle amongst ane tablespoon vegetable oil, toss around, making certain the crude coats everything.

In a modest bowl, mix the cornstarch, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, smoked paprika, tabular array salt together with dark-brown carbohydrate together until rattling good mixed. Sprinkle HALF of this mixture over the oiled potatoes together with toss well. Sprinkle the concluding one-half of the mixture over the potatoes together with toss well, making certain everything is coated.

Spread the potatoes out onto a lightly sprayed cookie canvass (I don't spray my cookie sheet. Instead I trouble it amongst Reynolds non-stick foil (it plant perfectly inward this recipe) only brand certain y'all spread the fries out thence they don't touch each other (use 2 cookie sheets if necessary).





Bake inward PRE-HEATED 400°F oven for fifteen minutes. After 15 minutes, flip the potatoes over together with bake to a greater extent than or less other fifteen minutes. Depending on how hot your oven runs, y'all mightiness accept to add together a yoke to a greater extent than minutes to larn those crusty edges. Remove from heat.

They aren't the prettiest fries ever, but they are delicious (hubby likes to tabular array salt his later they come upward out of the oven, but personally, I mean value they don't require it).


 
 
 
Note: If y'all similar a footling to a greater extent than spice, y'all tin role chipotle chili powder in house of the regular chili pulverization + smoked paprika.
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