Featured Recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups chopped & seeded ripe tomatoes
1/2 cup thinly sliced shallots
1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes (packed in oil), drained & chopped
1/4 cup fresh basil
1/4 cup Italian leaf parsley
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1/2 cup olive oil |
Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Sauce
An Italian delicious & tasty sauce made with sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, basil,
parsley & shallots. |
Method:
- In a large saucepan, combine all ingredients.
- Simmer for 20-30 minutes or until desired consistency is reached.
- Serve over hot, cooked pasta.
- This sauce is so delicious and so easy to make, you'll never want to
go back to jarred pasta sauce. Improvise with the garlic and herbs to your liking.
Serves 2-3
Preparation time: 40 minutes
|
  
Feature:
Eating Smart- Eating Out
Dining out doesn't have to be a caloric
catastrophe. Learn how to order with your waistline in mind.Do....
- Select foods that are low in fat and sugar.
- Choose an unsweetened fruit juice instead of aerated beverages.
- Order a salad with low fat dressing, as it is the oil-laden dressings
that make salads unhealthy. Choose a lemon or low fat yogurt dressing instead of a high
calorie mayonnaise or cream based dressing.
- Choose a whole wheat roti instead of white bread or naan made out of
maida. Maida is refined flour, which provides very little nutrition and virtually no
fiber.
- Select stir-fried vegetables, which use less oil while cooking
instead of greasy calorie laden gravies.
- If you really crave for desserts, select a less fatty, fruit based
dessert and share it with someone, so that you don't feel obligated to finish the entire
portion.
Not to do...
- Avoid eating out too often. Let it be an occasional indulgence.
- Never arrive at the restaurant on an empty stomach as most restaurant
dinners tend to start off late and you may be really hungry, as a result you end up
bingeing on fried starters or calorie-laden food. To avoid this, have a small snack or a
piece of fruit, before you leave home.
- Avoid an alcoholic drink before or after dinner as it provides you
with only empty (unnecessary) calories.
- Avoid butter and cheese laden dishes like sandwiches, butter
pancakes.
Don't overeat just because you do not want to waste
the food you have ordered. Pack the leftovers so you can relish them later when you're
hungry or you can give it to someone on your way home.
|
|
Recipes:
Vegetarian
recipes
Non-veg recipes
Rice recipes
Sweets
Pickles
Leftovers
Snacks
Indian tiffins
Desserts
Soups & sauces
Salads
Drinks
Western recipes
Chinese recipes
Links:
Daawat home
Contributions
Reference guide
Shopping
Search
Feedback
Advertise
Newsletter
archive
Restaurants
Calorie chart
Glossary
Measurements &
weights
Cookery terms
How to burn
calories
Tips &
tricks
Cooking
for health
Daawat feature
Your Comments
Newsletters:
Join newsletter
See our previous Newsletters
Please send your comments to neelima@daawat.com |
Newly Added Recipes
Hot Fudge Sauce
Potato Salad
Sour Cream Dip For Fresh
Fruit
Spring Thyme Salmon
Vanilla Ice Cream
Newly Contributed Recipes
Fish Molee by Prabha
Pillai
Masala
Aloo by Shweta Bhatia
Mutton
Curry by Prabha Pillai
Tip of the week
Cooking:
Add a pinch of soda bi carbonate to the water to boil peas etc. faster and
also to retain their bright green color.
Health:
Sneaky vegetables: Looking for ways to improve vegetable consumption
without eating plain veggies? Add finely chopped, shredded or pureed vegetables into any
recipe including casseroles, rice dishes, sauces, soups and pastas.
Cookery term
Crystallize:
To form sugar- or honey-based syrups into crystals. The term
also describes the coating. |