Many of your favorite recipes can be converted to heart-healthy versions by changing the cooking technique or by changing one or more ingredients. Heart-healthy ingredients can be substituted when they do not compromise the basic structure or chemical balance of a recipe. Some ingredients cannot be replaced successfully, but they might be reduced or even eliminated.
\n\u2022 Use a nonfat, lower-fat, lower-calorie, or lower-sodium version of the ingredient (such as reduced-fat mayonnaise, low-sodium soy sauce, reduced-calorie syrup).
\n\u2022 Eliminate unessential high-fat ingredients (such as chocolate chips or coconut).
\n\u2022 Use a low-fat method of cooking, such as baking, broiling, grilling, poaching, steaming, or stir-frying.
\n\u2022 Use nonstick cookware and saut\u00e9 foods in cooking spray and\/or low-sodium broth or water instead of oil, butter, or margarine.
\n\u2022 Cook pasta, rice, grains, and vegetables without oil, butter, margarine, or salt.
\n\u2022 Buy only the leanest meats-select is most lean, choice is medium, and prime is the fattiest (with the greatest marbling).
\n\u2022 Buy the leanest chicken-fryers and broilers are more lean than roasters; hens and capons have the most fat. Turkey breast meat is leaner than chicken. White meat poultry is more lean than dark.
\n\u2022 Substitute poultry, fish, or shellfish for red meat.
\n\u2022 Rome and min and vee at from other complementary seasonings.
\n\u2022 To thicken sauces or cream soups, use buttermilk or evaporated skim milk instead of cream.
\n\u2022 To thicken vegetable soups, pur\u00e9e some of the vegetables and stir them back into the soup.
\n\u2022 Reduce the amount of fat in baked goods by one-fourth to one-third; a little water, skim milk, or fruit juice may be needed to maintain the moisture content.
\n\u2022 Replace the fat in baked goods with an equal amount of unsweetened apple-sauce, yogurt, or prune pur\u00e9e.
\n\u2022 Reduce the amount of sugar by one-third to one-half and add spices, extracts, or dried fruit as you like.<\/p>\n
Be prepared to experiment. You may need to try several versions before hitting on the perfect recipe. Cooking times and assembly instructions may need to be modified along with the ingredients. Make written notes with each test so you can duplicate the successful result. With experience, you’ll know how to modify recipes and create new ones with little trouble.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of your favorite recipes can be converted to heart-healthy versions by changing the cooking technique or by changing one or more ingredients. Heart-healthy ingredients can be substituted when they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-healthy-ideas"],"yoast_head":"\n