Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes

Healthy Recipes on Thanksgiving…does this sound unusual as well as boring?

When we think of high caloric recipes something like stuffed turkey, full creamy sauce, the buttered mashed potatoes and also the pumpkin pies, then the word healthy does not seems to be a perfect adjective to be used. So why not give a try to something which is healthy and tasty too?

For my family, Thanksgiving Day is a very important day and we celebrate this particular day in a remarkable way by welcoming our near and dear ones for the dinner. So for this Thanksgiving Day special, I have a few ideas. I love testing with different kinds of ingredients along with flavors. Do not worry…nothing much I am going to do…just simple modifications to the usual Thanksgiving meals.

Here are given a few modifications which I have done for the common Thanksgiving Day menu:

Turkey: turkey is considered to be a delicacy and can become the attractive menu of your festival meal or some other celebration for example Thanksgiving Day. Turkey is considered to be a lean animal and contains less fat. But when it is basted in butter, it becomes high caloric and fatty food. So what Idid here, instead of butter, I used olive oils and baked it. This makes the turkey extremely tasty as well as healthy.

Bread: normally we make bread with white flour.. But I preferred to prepare with wheat flour and thus served the bread with baked turkey.

Good Gravy: you know gravy is one of the biggest culprits on the dinner table. I have used vegetable oil rather than turkey drippings when making the gravy. You can also opt for preparing low-fat broth-based gravy or vegeterian gravy instead.

Dessert: dessert is considered to be the last but not the least course of the meal. Instead of preparing cheesecakes and various kinds of pieswhich are most often loaded with creams, nuts and caramel, I relied on serving fresh fruits as a dessert menu.

Another modification I did in my Thanksgiving dinner menu is the utilization of leftover ham. With this left over ham, i made a new dish called as Swiss Rosti. Rosti is actually a Swiss potato pancake which you can serve as a side dish but I added ham and change it into an easy plus mouth-watering dinner menu. We can really enjoy the dish with steamed asparagus plus applesauce on the side.

This year it was easy for me to develop some variations in my family’s Thanksgiving menu. I just experimented with some changes and it was a hit. Why don’t you guys try and impress your family then?

Take a look at the free Thanksgiving eCookbooks. You can also take a look at some yummy apple recipes

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