Healthy Recipes - Xmas Food To- Beat Obesity - Chicken Recipes With Less Fat Than Christmas Turkey
Posted: Sunday, November 22, 2009
by Kacycarr
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What is it about Christmas we all love, aside from the most obvious celebrating the birth of Christ? Well there's hanging up Christmas tinsel, decorating the Xmas tree, receiving and giving gifts, dressing up for Christmas parties, going carol singing, playing in the snow if it did fall and wrapping up warm if Jack Frost is out. Yes all those mentioned above are things we enjoy doing at this jolly festive time, but there's one thing missing off the menu, and that's food. Christmas day is when we stuff our faces and fill our bellies with turkey, roast parsnips and mashed potatoes swimming in lashings of gravy followed by sherry trifle.
Being obese as a teenager may be linked with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis as an adult research states. Not all people are simply built to be slim, because our genetic make-ups are all different, nonetheless it shouldn't stop you from making sure your body gets the vital vitamins and nutrients to stay healthy and function properly even if you are a little heavier and bigger than others.
There's no better time than Christmas to start working on your weight problem.
Every year after dinner we all see the belly bloat and have that feeling of fullness which leaves us fit for doing nothing. Hey this is Christmas and we can't have that, what about the Christmas games. Why don't you this year look towards the healthy approach and give you and your family healthy treats. They won't be missing out, healthy foods are just as filling and that sense of fullness will happen
Stuffing you're family's bellies with healthy nutritious foods will make this Xmas not only a Happy Christmas for them, but a "Happy Healthy Christmas".
Below is a list of Healthy Recipes to serve up this Christmas Day.
How you celebrate your Christmas is entirely up to you, but you don't have to stick with tradition for food to be good. If the turkey takes flight before being plucked then so what, think from the bird's point of view, would you stick around to be stuffed.
Christmas Dinner Starters:
- Soup goes down well and is easy to make leaving you more time to concentrate on the main meal.
- Wrap asparagus in Parma ham, sprinkle parmesan over and bake till hot then drizzle with melted butter and black pepper.
- Finely sliced smoked duck breast on a bed of rocket and watercress with a balsamic dressing and served with nutty wheat bread cut into fingers with mayonnaise.
- Pate flavor of your choice served with French toast and a little mixed salad leaves is a tasty Christmas starter.
- Scallops wrapped in Parma ham - lightly griddled and served with lime, red chilli and olive oil dressing.
Make your own homemade soup like butternut squash with a hint of ginger. Spice up soups with a dollop of half-fat crme frache or low-fat yoghurt and a sprinkling of herbs? Always check labels for soups that are low in salt if not making your own.
Healthy Recipes for Christmas
Years ago goose was commonly served on Christmas day but now replaced by turkey. This is great news in terms of healthy eating, because turkey contains extra proteins and less fat than goose or duck. But like most poultry birds avoid eating the greasy skin.
1.It is likely for Christmas dinner vegetarians will eat Nut roast. For a festive change add cranberries or chestnuts.
2. Potatoes are a starchy food containing carbohydrate, which supplies the body with energy, as well as fibre and other essential vitamins and minerals. When preparing spuds cut them into large chunks they will absorb less fat.
3. Make sure your dinner plate is piled high with fruit and vegetables. Root vegetables in season will add color and taste and vitamins.
4. Don't add salt to vegetable cooking water use herbs for flavor.
5. Braise carrots in lemon juice and olive oil. Add parsnips if there's space in the dish it to give the parsnips a sweet zingy taste. Leftover vegetables and turkey will make a tasty healthy winter broth to have on Boxing Day. Or freeze till the follow week for New Year. If you're going to let the New Year in then do it on a full stomach.
6.Not everyone like's sprouts, disguise them by mushing them into creamed potatoes or serve them in bacon rolls. Steam vegetables rather than boil to keep vitamins in. Use veg water to make gravy.
7. Choose chicken over turkey, why? Well why not it's healthy and cheaper than turkey. To save money buy your turkey weeks before and freeze to avoid the high prices
Healthy Chicken meals
Baked chicken goujons
Serves: 4
15 mins cooking time
Recipe Ingredients
- 500g skinless chicken breast fillets
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp milk
- 175g white breadcrumbs
Preheat oven to 240C (220C fan oven), gas 9. Cut chicken fillets in strips lengthways. Whisk the egg, olive oil, milk and seasoning in mixing basin. Add chicken to beaten mixture and mix. Spread breadcrumbs on a tray. Roll chicken strips in the crumbs, coating them evenly, and then place on the parchment-covered baking sheet. Sprinkle leftover crumbs on top and bake for 15 minutes or until crisp and golden. Serve with lemon wedges or with new potatoes and green vegetables
Chicken Dumplings
Serves: 12
15 mins cooking time
This healthy chicken recipe is a tasty wonton-wrapped dumpling which is poached, not fried.
Ingredients
- 8oz minced chicken
- 4 tbsp finely sliced spring onions
- 4 tbsp finely chopped tinned water chestnuts
- 4 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
- 4 tsp low-sodium soy sauce
- tsp ground ginger
- tsp pepper
- 24 wonton wrappers, about 3in square
- 4 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce. Soy sauce normally contains much sodium, so use sparingly.
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 2 tsp rice vinegar
- tsp caster sugar
- 4 tbsp finely sliced spring onions
Add chicken, spring onions, water chestnuts, coriander, soy sauce, ginger and pepper into mixing bowl and blend
Working with several wonton wrappers at a time and keeping the remainder loosely covered with a clean moist dish cloth, make the dumplings: Heap mixture of chicken etc on the bottom half of a wrapper. With pastry brush, dampen two adjoining sides of the wrapper. Fold the two moistened sides over the filling to form a triangle and press to seal.
In a separate container make the dipping sauce, whisk soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar, sugar and spring onions.
Into a large pot of boiling water add the dumplings and cook for about 4 minutes or until they float to the surface and the filling feels firm. Drain and serve hot with the dipping sauce.
For healthy Christmas deserts leave plates of fresh fruit around the room so the family will nibble on these instead of dipping into the section box full of chocolate.
A typical Christmas desert is Christmas pudding, with its rich mix of dried fruits such as raisins, currants and sultanas. Nonetheless, it's not every ones cup of tea. If your family is not particularly fussy on Christmas pud, then plan for a lighter dessert. Prepare a fruit salad and add tropical fruits such as papaya and pomegranate. Or stew a mixture of berries with plums, apples and cinnamon, and serve it with plain yoghurt.
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