Light and Healthy

As you look through the following recipes you will find selections that are both light in portion size and with fewer calories, lower in fat content along with healthy and vegetarian choices.

We hope you will be delighted and surprised to find that ‘HEALTHY’ can and does equal tasty and delicious!  You will find substitutes suggested at the bottom of this page, which can be used to lighten the recipes throughout the on-line recipe book - Enjoy!!  
 

• Water Crisp Corn Tortilla Chips Use these versatile chips for dips and as croutons for salads and soups.

• Baked and Seasoned Flour Tortilla Chips

  Light and tasty, we know you can’t stop at just a few, make plenty.

• Chicken Fajitas with Green Olive-Coriander Salsa
  .....and the salsa is great on fish and pork

• Veggie Three Bean Chilli & Tortilla Casserole
  This is a vegetarian pleaser that meat-eaters along with vegetarians will love

• Chicken and Corn Tortilla Soup
  Light & Healthy, Fragrant & Delicious

• Veggie Toss

  Here is a way to serve vegetables that will please every taste.

• Seafood Seviche (sa vee chee) Tacos
  The perfect meal for a warm summer evening, seafood at it's freshest, light & delicious.

  
 
Some Food For Thought For Fat/Calorie Slashers:

• Bake instead of fry. See above for  Baked and Seasoned Tortilla Chips and Water Crisp Corn Tortilla Chips.
• Barbecue or grill-cook instead of pan-frying pieces of meat, fish or poultry.
• Braise-deglaze chopped vegetables that are usually cooked in fat, as the foundation of many dishes. Pan braising and then deglazing with water of broth/stock develops a rich brown colour, and sweet, intense vegetable flavours.
• Broil instead of pan-fry to brown meats, fish, and poultry.
• Broil to char and cook chilies and other vegetables.
• Use broth instead of fat to give a creamy texture to refried beans and other dishes.