By Marsha McCormick
SNAP-Ed PA
OSU Extension, Adams County
If you’re in search of some more healthy recipes to supply at vacation gatherings this 12 months, attempt to embody some seasonal produce. One among my favourite sides to supply is a spinach salad with contemporary orange or apple slices, dried cranberries, pecans, and crimson onion. Paired with a raspberry French dressing dressing and somewhat feta cheese, this makes a light-weight however flavorful salad that vacation friends might request annually.
One other wholesome vacation facet is sautéed inexperienced beans. Merely sauté a can of inexperienced beans in a small quantity of oil together with chopped crimson pepper, onions, garlic, and mushrooms. This low-calorie recipe is a more healthy different to the standard inexperienced bean casserole and the crimson and inexperienced colours make it good for the Christmas season.
Discover a wide range of roasted vegetable recipes so as to add a pop of taste and colour to your vegetable facet dishes. Some favourite combos embody roasted beets, parsnips, and carrots; broccoli, cauliflower and cherry tomatoes; or butternut squash, Brussels sprouts, onions, and candy potatoes. The combos are infinite, simply add somewhat oil and your favourite seasonings and you’ll have a one pan fantastic facet.
Don’t overlook to incorporate a wide range of cruciferous greens like cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts usually for his or her cancer-fighting properties. Whereas out there to us year-round, issues like broccoli and cauliflower are likely to style sweeter within the winter months. You may roast them as prompt earlier or use them in a wide range of soups, salads, and casseroles. A easy broccoli, cauliflower, and cherry tomato salad with a light-weight mayonnaise dressing makes an awesome facet that features conventional Christmas colours.
For a principal course, add citrus fruit or apples to a pork roast. You could find an instance of this with the Crockpot Shredded Pork recipe at Celebrateyourplate.org (CYP). Roasted turkey or hen breasts are additionally wholesome protein selections. Use leftover poultry to make the Turkey Cranberry Wrap recipe from CYP.
Apples are plentiful and at their greatest taste this time of 12 months. They are often served in muffins, salads, and oatmeal or baked to function a more healthy dessert possibility. You can too add diced apples to a tuna salad or make a more healthy Waldorf salad through the use of low fats yogurt because the dressing.
Relatively than all the time selecting cookies and candies for snacks at your events, strive some evenly seasoned walnuts or pecans. Keep in mind to restrict your serving sizes as a result of despite the fact that nuts
are excessive in wholesome fat, nutritional vitamins, and minerals, they’re additionally excessive in energy. Vegetable trays, fruit kabobs, and a path combine made with complete grain cereals, dried fruit, and nuts additionally make wholesome snacks.
Not all vacation meals must be laden with fats and sugar. Whereas all of us wish to bask in a few of our favourite treats, keep in mind to additionally embody some more healthy meals at your celebrations. For extra info, contact me at mccormick.3@osu.edu or name the Adams County Extension Workplace at (937) 544-2339.
