Dietary restrictions can vary.reasons. This disease, and fasting, and the desire to lose weight. However, this food is often fresh, does not have a pronounced taste and flavor. In this case, sauces come to the rescue. Dietary, lean, vegan - their choice is much more than it may seem to an inexperienced cook. This simple addition will make a refined dish even a simple boiled chicken.
Why do we need sauces, diet and lean?
The first rule of any diet is an exception todiet so-called empty calories. These include sweet drinks, mayonnaise, white bread and sugar. These restrictions are justified because most of the listed products can be replaced by much less harmful. Dietary and lean sauces, sugar-free compotes and whole-grain bread - a great alternative to the usual food.
Seasoning your meals with diet sauces, you don’tOnly diversify the taste of dishes, but also get additional vitamins. The fact is that for the most part they are prepared from fresh products immediately before serving. And this is a guarantee not only of taste, but also of good.
The choice of basis products for making sauces is also varied. It can be:
- fresh, baked or steamed vegetables;
- fruits with a bright taste, most often citrus fruits - lemons, limes, oranges, clementines;
- although the berries are not quite familiar in this quality, they are excellent for lean meat, for example, turkey breast;
- Sour-milk products - unsweetened yogurt and kefir blend well with greens and are suitable for salad dressing.
Diet sauces, vegetable-based recipes
The most common vegetable base forDietary and low-calorie sauces are tomatoes. They can be cooked in a variety of ways: stew in a skillet, dry, mash with a blender, and simply chop. This is all a variety of tomato sauces diet.
Recipes with photos of such sauces are simple. Let's remember the most simple and low-calorie.
- Tomato sauce with garlic and horseradish - classicoption. Preparing easy. Take ripe tomatoes, horseradish and garlic in the proportion that suits you, and salt the dish. All products are crushed in a meat grinder or blender, and then the sauce is rolled into sterilized jars.
- Tomato sauce for spaghetti.Take two ripe tomatoes, a clove of garlic, fresh basil and oregano. Grind the tomatoes in a blender, add the spices and salt. If the diet allows, pour in some olive oil.
Fruit and berry diet sauces
As a fruit base toto cook diet sauces most often use a variety of citrus. In addition, you can take sour berries - currants, cranberries, lingonberries. They have a bright taste and enrich any dish.
- Lemon dressing for salads.You will need half a lemon juice, a teaspoon of Dijon mustard, a tablespoon of unrefined olive oil and a little white pepper. Squeeze the lemon into a bowl, add the rest of the products and whisk until white.
- Lingonberry sauce for meat. Preparing is very simple.Rinse the lingonberries thoroughly and wipe it through a sieve to remove the skin and seeds. The sauce is ready. If desired, you can add to it a little brown sugar and white pepper.
Dietary sauces based on milk and dairy products
On the basis of kefir and natural yogurt, you can make a lot of tasty and dietary sauces, which are able to successfully replace the usual mayonnaise.
Yoghurt sauce for meat salads.Take half a glass of unsweetened yogurt, a clove of garlic, dill and salt. Chop garlic and dill, mix with yogurt and salt. You get a great Olivier dressing instead of mayonnaise.
A similar sauce can be made on the basis of kefir. In addition, you can add finely chopped cucumbers and put more greens in it.
