Tips to make your food into low cal. ones

Ingredients:

• Use unsaturated oil instead of butter or margarine in cakes. Unsaturated oil can be used as a substitute for butter or margarine, while making cakes and pies.

Method:

• Use ‘Hung Yoghurt’ instead of mayonnaise and sour cream. If a recipe has sour cream as an accompaniment, substitute it with hung yoghurt. To get hung yoghurt, put yoghurt, that too low fat yoghurt, in a muslin cloth and hang it for a few hours till the water drains off. You can season this and use it as a dip instead of mayonnaise or as a substitute for sour cream. It tastes ‘yummy’.
• Switch to lime juice, tomato and orange juice for dressings. They have far fewer calories than the regular dressings.
• Use skimmed Milk instead of cream.
• Thicken gravies with skimmed milk and flour instead of cream. Better still, use arrowroot or cornstarch. Alternatively, you can use extra vegetables to thicken soup.

Notes:

• Use fruit purees instead of fat in cakes, muffins, cookies and other baked goods.