Low Fat Cooking Tips and Low Fat Recipes

Low fat diet is very common and popular nowadays, people who are more health conscious choose to go for low fat diet to reduce or control the amount of saturated fat in their meals. Most of the people aware that diet with high content of fat especially saturated fat will lead to cardiovascular diseases, high blood cholesterol and etc.

Here I would like to share a few tips that would help you to simply reduce the fat content of most of your dishes and still taste delicious. Many recipes recommend to use butter or oil to sauté vegetables, and to consider a low fat diet, oil should be used instead of butter to lower the saturated fat content of the dish. It would be better if you have low fat or nonfat cooking oil as a substitute. You could also sprinkle a little salt on the vegetables to bring out their natural juices, so that less oil will be needed. Using a nonstick frying pan is also a good idea of reducing the amount of oil used during frying.

One of the very common substitutions for butter in low fat diet is margarine, but there is an important consideration you have to make before switching from butter to margarine. If you were to prepare a dessert, then it is usually best to use butter, as margarine may significantly change the taste or consistency of the desserts.

Many chesses and other dairy products namely sour cream, milk, cream are sources of unwanted fat. While apply cheese to your dishes, you may consider cheese with reduced fat or nonfat varieties, or simply reduce the amount of cheese by replacing it with a stronger tasting type. Another common way of trimming fat from a dish is to use skim milk in substitution of cream. If a recipe that call for sour cream, you may try to substitute it with nonfat or low fat sour cream, or just plain yogurt.

Below is a delicious and healthy low fat vegetarian recipe that i hope you will enjoy it.

Stuffed Tomatoes with Feta Cheese:

Ingredients: (4 servings)
4 medium sized ripe tomatoes
2 tablespoon finely chopped fresh parsley
2 tablespoon finely chopped scallions
3 oz finely crumbled feta cheesern¼ bread crumbs
3 tablespoon olive oil

Method:
1.Carefully cut tops off tomatoes, using a spoon to carefully scoop out pulp and seed. Save pulp and discard the seeds.
2.Coarsely chop the tomato pulp.
3.Preheat oven to 350F.
4.In a small bowl, combine tomato pulp with scallions, parsley, feta cheese, bread crumbs and olive oil.
5.Spoon mixture into the hollowed-out tomatoes. Place tomatoes right side up in a 8-inch by 8-inch baking pan and bake for 15 minutes.
6.Serve stuffed tomatoes steaming hot.

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