Super Basin Sunday is a day for commercials you absolutely appetite to watch, over-hyped halftime performances and ailing candy galore– oh yeah, and football! Sorry to be the agent of bad news, but you’re anatomy doesn’t affliction if it’s the Super Basin and those calories will calculation aloof as abundant as they would on any added day.
Fortunately, you can get the best of both worlds and adore adorable appetizers after the answerability with the advice of celebrity claimed trainer and wellness authority David Kirsch. David has committed himself to allowance others accomplish a antithesis of mind, anatomy and spirit and is the columnist of three acknowledged books abounding with aperitive recipes and aesthetic workouts.
To advice you break on clue this year, David has provided six adorable and alimental recipes that can seamlessly alter those old Super Basin standbys.
NO-FAT HUMMUS
Serve this as a bite with celery, whole-grain crackers, or cucumber. For added zip, add added cayenne or a few drops of hot pepper sauce.
· 11?2 cups acclimatized or canned chickpeas, rinsed and drained
· 1?4 cup nonfat apparent yogurt
· 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
· 1 tablespoon minced garlic
· 1?4 teaspoon arena cumin
· 1?4 teaspoon arena cayenne
· 1?4 cup fresh-squeezed auto juice
1. In a aliment processor, amalgamate all ingredients.
2. Process until able-bodied blended.
3. Use immediately, or air-condition up to 3 hours.
Makes 2 servings. Per serving: 227 calories, 12 g protein, 40 g carbohydrate,
3 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 10 g fiber, 4 g sugar
ROASTED RED PEPPER AND ALMOND DIP
Serve this adorable dip with celery, broken cucumber, or accomplished aureate absurd for a abundant mid-morning snack.
· Nonfat vegetable affable spray
· 1 ample garlic clove, smashed
· 1?2 teaspoon ashamed red pepper flakes
· 3 broiled red alarm peppers, halved, membranes removed
· 1?2 cup amoebic raw almonds, coarsely chopped
· 1 tablespoon olive oil
· Salt
· Pepper
1. Covering a average nonstick bucket with affable spray.
2. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes, and baker over low calefaction for 10 minutes.
3. Place cooled broiled red peppers in a aliment processor, and beating until coarsely chopped.
4. Add the almonds, garlic, and red pepper flakes.
5. Beating aloof until coarsely ground.
6. Slowly add the oil, and beating one or two added times.
7. Division with alkali and pepper to taste.
Makes 3 servings. Per serving: 227 calories, 7 g protein, 15 g carbohydrate,
17 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 6 g fiber, 8 g sugar
TUNA AND SHRIMP KABOB
This is a absolutely fun affair basin and can calmly be acclimatized to serve added people.
· 1/2 baby eggplant
· 2 average shrimp, bald and cleaned
· 1/2 medium-sized, craven alarm pepper
· 1/3 cup water
· 4 ounces skinless adolescent steak, cut into four 1-inch cubes
· 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
· 1 teaspoon chopped alpha dill
1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Cut eggplant in bisected lengthwise, again cut aslant into 1/2-inch pieces; set aside.
3. Cut pepper into quarters; abolish seeds and stem. Cut anniversary allotment in half.
4. Bake peppers and eggplant in antithesis packet for 20 minutes. Abolish and cool.
5. Place peppers and eggplant on skewers.
6. Place adolescent and shrimp on skewers, alternating adolescent again shrimp.
7. Place all skewers in a ample bank dish.
8. Amalgamate water, Dijon mustard, and dill in a baby bowl. Mix able-bodied and cascade over kabobs. Awning and air-condition 30 minutes. Abolish kabobs from marinade; abandon marinade.
9. Aerosol barbecue arbor with nonfat vegetable affable spray. Place kabobs on grill. Barbecue tuna/shrimp skewers 2 to 3 account anniversary ancillary and veggies 4 account on anniversary side.
SESAME CHICKEN FINGERS
This accessible basin goes over able-bodied at parties. It’s additionally abundant as a ablaze meal served with broccoli.
· 1?4 teaspoon ablaze soy sauce
· 1?4 teaspoon Dijon mustard
· 1 teaspoon water
· 1 teaspoon turmeric
· 1 4-ounce boneless, skinless craven breast broken into 4 strips
· 1 tablespoon broiled atramentous and white sesame seeds
1. In a baby bowl, mix the soy sauce, mustard, water, and turmeric.
2. Marinate the craven in the admixture up to 1 hour.
3. Covering the craven with sesame seeds.
4. Preheat oven to 350°F.
5. Place the craven on a nonstick baking pan.
6. Bake 12 to 15 account or until craven strips are acclimatized through.
Makes 1 serving. Per serving: 195 calories, 26 g protein, 2 g carbohydrate,
8 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 2 g fiber, 0 g sugar
GUILTLESS BARBECUE BURGER
Red meat charge not appear loaded with saturated fat. Addle meat tastes aloof as adorable as beef, but it comes abundant leaner. Because of its leanness, it cooks quicker as well.
· 4 ounces angular arena addle meat
· 4 ounces angular arena turkey breast
· 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
· 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
· 2 tablespoons low-sugar, low-sodium barbecue sauce
· 2 egg whites, agilely beaten
· Nonfat vegetable affable spray
1. Mix all of the capacity except the affable aerosol in a ample bowl.
2. Form the admixture into two patties.
3. Aerosol a barbecue barbecue or nonstick bucket with affable spray, and calefaction to medium-high heat.
4. Place the patties on barbecue or skillet, and baker about 8 account per ancillary (for medium), until acclimatized through.
Makes 2 servings. Per serving: 185 calories, 33 g protein, 8 g carbohydrate,
3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, .5 g fiber, 4 g sugar
TURKEY CHILI
Double this recipe, authoritative a big pot of the being at the alpha of the week. Whenever you are rushed and don’t accept time to adapt a added busy cafeteria or dinner, serve up some leftovers. The chili consistently tastes bigger the additional time around.
· Nonfat affable spray
· 1 batter angular arena turkey
· Salt
· Pepper
· 1 cup bald and grated carrot
· 2?3 cup chopped onion
· 2?3 cup chopped celery
· 1 abysm garlic, minced
· 2 teaspoons chili powder
· 1 teaspoon paprika
· 1 teaspoon arena cumin
· 1?8 teaspoon arena cayenne
· 1 141?2-ounce can chopped asset amazon in juice
· 1?2 cup low-fat, low-sodium craven broth
· 1 bay leaf
1. Calefaction a 3-quart nonstick bucket over aerial calefaction and covering with affable spray.
2. Add the turkey, and division to aftertaste with alkali and pepper. Baker for 2 to 3 minutes, breaking up the turkey into pieces, until browned.
3. Abolish to a bowl, and awning with antithesis to accumulate warm.
4. Reduce the calefaction to low, and add the carrot, onion, celery, and garlic. Baker for 3 to 5 minutes, until the vegetables activate to soften.
5. Add the chili powder, paprika, cumin, and cayenne. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
6. Increase the calefaction to medium, and add the tomato, stock, and bay leaf. Bring to a abscess over aerial heat.
7. Reduce the calefaction to medium-low, and simmer for 15 minutes, covered.
8. Add the browned turkey, and simmer for 5 account more.
9. Abolish and abandon the bay blade afore serving.
Makes 4 servings. Per serving: 240 calories, 23 g protein, 15 g carbohydrate,
10 g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 4 g fiber, 8 g sugar
