Happy New Year! May your year be filled with happiness and good health!
Tag-Archive for » tips «
Tuna steaks tend to get tough if you cook them too long, so take them off the grill while they are still pink in the center to keep them juicy
1 lb Tuna Steaks
1/2 c Balsamic Vinegar
2 T Sugar
1 T Italian Seasoning
1/2 t Garlic Powder
1 T Olive Oil
1 T Lemon Juice
Combine all ingredients except tuna and lemon juice and pour in a glass baking dish. Add tuna and marinate 15 minutes, turned frequently. Heat grill to high. Place fish on grill and grill until medium doneness, about 3 minutes per side. Place on serving plates and squeeze lemon juice over.
Yield: 4 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
One Comment
You can get the same kind of extra juiciness that the commercial meat packers are doing while saving lots of sodium by injecting your own turkey. Using a low sodium chicken broth adds almost no sodium per serving. You can find injectors in the gadget aisle of many large supermarkets or any kitchen supply store or buy one online somewhere like cooking.Com for only a few dollars. Starting the cooking at a high temperature seals in the juices and gives you a nice juicy skin.
12 lb Turkey
1 c Low Sodium Chicken Or Turkey Broth
Preheat oven to 500F. Using a hypodermic needle or baster-injector to inject the broth into the turkey. Put turkey in the oven. Let cook for 20 minutes or until the exterior is crisp, but not golden brown. Reduce heat to 375F. Let bird roast until finished.
Yield: 24 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 83 mg
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
Leave a Comment
A quick and easy way to shredded beef barbecue sandwiches for dinner. Put this in the slow cooker and some rolls in the bread machine and when you get home, dinner will be almost done.
2 lb Beef Chuck
1 lg Onion
1/2 t Liquid Smoke
1 c Salt Free Barbecue Sauce
Slice onion and place in bottom of crockpot. Place beef on top. Drizzle liquid smoke over. Cook on low 10-12 hours. Remove meat and onion, drain and shred. Add sauce and mix well.
Yield: 6 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 111 mg
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
Leave a Comment
A different kind of deviled egg, and one that is sure to please.
6 Eggs,Hard Boiled
1/3 c Low Sodium Salsa
2 sl Low Sodium Bacon,Cooked & Crumbled
1 T Mayonnaise
Peel and cut eggs in half lengthwise. Mash the yolks and mix with salsa, bacon, and mayonnaise. Fill the egg whites with the yolk mixture and chill. Garnish with small sprigs or parsley or cilantro.
Yield: 6 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 132 mg
Category: Side Dishes
Leave a Comment
Somewhat spicy grilled fish fillets. We prefer this with plain brown rice to help balance the more intense flavor of the fish.
2 lb Fish fillet
1 t Tabasco sauce
2 T Dill
4 T Scallion,Chopped
4 T Green Bell Peppers,Chopped
4 T Red Bell Peppers,Chopped
1 t file powder
1 c sauterne wine
Lay fillets in a pan that you have sprayed liberally with no stick vegetable oil spray. Mix remaining ingredients together. Pour this mixture over the fish. Cover the pan and marinate for 2-6 hours. Broil fish in oven or grill
Yield: 6 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 107 mg
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
Leave a Comment
Kick up the flavor of mashed potatoes without adding a lot of sodium
1 1/2 lb Potatoes
4 oz Cream Cheese
4 T Unsalted Butter
1/4 c Milk
1/4 t Garlic Powder
1 T Dried Parsley
1/2 t Thyme
Peel potatoes and cube. Boil in water until soft, drain thoroughly. Mash with electric mixer or potato masher until smooth. Stir in cheese and melted butter. Add milk and mix until smooth. Stir in herbs. Adjust the amount of milk to achieve the desired consistency.
Yield: 6 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 66 mg
Category: Side Dishes
Leave a Comment
1 1/2 lb Round Steak
1 T Vinegar
2 T Flour
1/4 t Black Pepper
2 T Oil
3 Onions,Sliced
3/4 c Water
2 t Low Sodium Beef Bouillon
1 sm Cabbage
Combine flour and pepper. Coat meat with mixture. Brown meat in oil on all sides. Transfer to crockery cooker, add onions. Add water, vinegar and bouillon to skillet, Stir, scraping up browned bits from bottom. Pour over beef and onions in cooker. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. Serve over hot cooked cabbage wedges.
Yield: 5 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 107 mg
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
Leave a Comment
This is really just a variation on the original chicken and broth recipe. As with the chicken recipe, this produces broth that can be diluted before using. It cooks easily in the crockpot and gives you a good sized quantity of broth, plus beef that can be used for soup, barbecued beef sandwiches or other uses. If you don’t need all the broth, package it up in 2 cup freezer containers that can be thawed and used in place of a can of beef broth. The nutritional estimate includes both the meat and broth, so it’s hard to compare it to canned broth. but the broth alone would obviously be much lower than the 150 mgs that a serving of the Health Valley No Salt Added Beef Broth contains.
1 1/2 lb Beef Chuck
1 Ea Onion
2 Ea Carrot
1 c Celery
1 1/2 c Water
1/2 t Black Pepper
1 t Thyme
Slice veggies and place in bottom of crockpot. Cut up beef and place on top. Pour water over. Add spices. Cook on low 8-9 hours. Remove meat from pot and let cool until easy to handle. Remove from bones and cut up as needed. Remove veggies from broth and throw away. Cool broth in refrigerator and remove fat from top. Broth may mixed with equal amount of water and used in any recipe calling for beef broth. Both chicken and broth may be frozen until needed.
Yield: 8 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 82 mg
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
Leave a Comment
Tuna steaks tend to get tough if you cook them too long, so take them off the grill while they are still pink in the center to keep them juicy
1 lb Tuna Steaks
1/2 c Balsamic Vinegar
2 T Sugar
1 T Italian Seasoning
1/2 t Garlic Powder
1 T Olive Oil
1 T Lemon Juice
Combine all ingredients except tuna and lemon juice and pour in a glass baking dish. Add tuna and marinate 15 minutes, turned frequently. Heat grill to high. Place fish on grill and grill until medium doneness, about 3 minutes per side. Place on serving plates and squeeze lemon juice over.
Yield: 4 Servings
Sodium Category: LowSodium
Sodium 46 mg
Category: Meat and Main Dishes
Leave a Comment
