Healthy Thanksgiving Recipe
When we think of high caloric recipes for example stuffed turkey, full creamy sauce, the buttered mashed potatoes and the pumpkin pies, then the word healthy does not seems to be a perfect adjective to be used. Why can't we try something new which is healthful and delicious too?
For my family, Thanksgiving Day is a very auspicious day and we celebrate it in a great manner by welcoming friends and relatives for the dinner. So for this Thanksgiving Day special, I have a few ideas. I like testing with different kinds of ingredients as well as flavors. Do not worry...nothing new I am going to do...just easy changes to the normal Thanksgiving meals.
Here are a few changes which I did for the normal Thanksgiving Day menu:
Turkey: turkey is a delicacy and can become the attractive menu of your festival meal or any celebration such as Thanksgiving Day. Turkey is a very lean animal which contains less fat. But when you basted it in butter, it tends to be caloric as well as fatty food. So what Changes i did here, inplace of butter, I basted the turkey with olive oil and then baked it. With this slight variation, my turkey came out extremely delicious plus healthy too.
Bread: in general we make bread with white flour.. But I preferred to make with wheat flour and thus i serve the bread with baked turkey.
Good Gravy: Are you aware of the fact that gravy is the principal culprits on the dinner table. I have used vegetable oil rather than turkey drippings when making the gravy. You can also opt for preparing low-fat broth-based gravy or any vegeterian gravy.
Dessert: dessert is considered to be the last but not the least course of the meal. Instead of preparing cheesecakes and various kinds of piesthat are most often loaded with creams, nuts and caramel, I relied on serving fresh fruits as a dessert menu.
Another change I did in my thanksgiving dinner menu is the usuage of leftover ham. With this left over ham, i made a new dish called as Swiss Rosti. Rosti is actually a Swiss potato pancake which you can serve as a side dish but I used the ham and thus make it into an easy as well as mouth-watering Thanksgiving dinner menu. You can actually enjoy the dish with steamed asparagus plus applesauce on the side.
This year it was comfortable for me to create changes in my Thanksgiving menu. I just experimented with some changes and it was a hit. Why don't you guys try and impress your family then?
Take a look at the free Thanksgiving Cookbooks. You can also take a look at some yummy apple recipes
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