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Tips Reduce Fat Content10 tips reduce fat content in your favourite recipes 1. Use lower fat varieties of milk and yoghurt 2. Use whipped low fat ricotta with a dash of vanilla, honey and skim milk instead of whipped cream 3. For cheesecakes, use low fat cream cheese, low fat cottage (blended so that its smooth) or low fat ricotta 4. Instead of sour cream, use reduced fat yoghurt or cottage cheese blended with a little skim milk and a drop of lemon 5. For cakes and muffins, use nut oils (almond, macadamia) instead of butter. The fat content can be reduced again by replacing half the oil with apple or banana puree 6. Use less oil around a teaspoon when cooking. Use a non-stick pan, and a small amount of stock or water to stop food from sticking 7. When roasting vegetables, place vegetables on baking paper and spray lightly with olive/nut oil 8. Try baking or grilling rather than frying using light spray of olive/nut oil 9. Instead of mayonnaise, use low fat yoghurt in salad dressings, or for sandwiches, use nut butters, avocado, tahini, hommus, mustards, pickles 10. Use filo pastry instead of puff and shortcrust. For pastry recipes, use olive/nut oil instead of butter RICOTTA is whey cheese made from cows milk. It is basin shaped, pure white, slightly wet to the touch, but not sticky. It should be firm, moist and crumbly. TAHINI is a paste made from finely ground sesame seeds. It is creamy to very pale brown in colour. Excellent source of protein and Vitamin E. It contains 50% fat of which 90% is unsaturated (less damaging than saturated fat). My wicked indulgence is to spread honey and tahini on fresh crusty bread and consume with gay abandon! HOMMUS is made from blended tahini, chickpeas, garlic, lemon, spices. It's great in sandwiches OLIVE OIL is considered a good monounsaturated fat; shown to lower cholesterol. Here's some information on olive oil.
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