Low Fat Recipes for Special Occasions

Got that special dinner for your better half’s parents coming up and don’t know how to fix up a low fat dinner. Well here are two great low fat recipes just for such special occasions. Try them out and we bet you will just love it. Pot Roast with Vegetables Ingredients 1.Rump or bottom round: 2 pound 2.Medium sized potatoes, peeled and quartered: 2 3.Green bell pepper, chopped: 1 4.Onions, sliced: 2 5.Celery stalks, sliced: 4 6.Baby carrots:10 7.Garlic, chopped: 1 clove 8.Dry mustard: 1 teaspoon 9.Tomato juice: 2 cups 10.Dry thyme: 1 teaspoons 11.Lemon juice: 1 lemon Preparation Take a shallow roasting pan and place the roast in it. Now trim away all the fat. Squeeze the lemon over the roast while piercing with a fork. Preheat the oven to 350oF. Take an oven cooking bag and place the roast in it according to the instructions on the bag. Arrange the quartered potatoes around the roast. Now arrange the onions and carrots around the roast inside the bag. Put the bell pepper and celery over the top of the roast. Sprinkle the dry thyme, garlic and mustard over the roast. Then pour the tomato juice around the beef roast inside the bag. Seal the oven cooking bag now and cut slits in it for venting. Now roast for about an hour at 350oF. Then remove the roast from the oven cooking bag and let it stand for around 5 minutes. Now cut it into slices and serve. Honey Mustard Chicken Ingredients 1.Chicken, skinned and cut: 2 ½ pounds 2.Dijon mustard: ½ cup 3.Honey: ½ cup 4.Dill, chopped: 2 tablespoons 5.Orange peel, grated:1 teaspoon Preparation Begin by preheating the oven to 400oF. For preparing the honey and mustard sauce mix the honey and mustard in a small bowl. Stir in the dill and the grated orange peel. Now refrigerate the sauce until you are ready to use it. Take the chicken and place it on a sheet. Coat both its sides with the sauce prepared earlier. Bake for around 30 minutes till it is no longer pink on the inside.

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