Quick Low Calorie Gravy Recipe
Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites

Low Calorie Gravy Recipe

Need a creamy gravy topper for biscuits? Our original recipe contains about 100 calories for 1 cup.

Heat 1 Tablespoon of reduced fat margarine in a non-stick pan until melted. Add 1 Tablespoon of white flour and stir until paste forms.

Next, add 1 cup of skim milk and stir until a creamy mixture starts to thicken. Season with sea salt and cracked pepper.

To reduce calories further still, use whole milk - half milk and the remaining half water. Reduced fat milk doesn't work well because it's just not creamy enough once it become diluted.

White Sauce, a low calorie recipe

The Recipe Ingredients

1 Tablespoon of reduced fat margarine
1 Tablespoon of all purpose white flour
1/8 teaspoon of sea salt, dash of cracked pepper for seasoning
3/4 cup of reduced fat or skim milk

How to Prepare

Melt the reduced fat margarine then stir in the flour, salt and pepper. Add the milk quite quickly to the rue and cook over medium heat until the white sauce is thick and bubbly. This recipe makes six servings at two Tablespoons each and contains about 100 calories for the entire recipe.

Lower Calories & Fat Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

This recipe is so rich and creamy - and it's very easy to prepare. You can use a double-boiler when making it on the stove top, or you can prepare it in the microwave as we did. The microwave also works well in cooking puddings and dumplings which seem to enjoy sticking to the pot when prepared on the stove top.

The Recipe Ingredients:Hollandaise Sauce Recipe

1 cup of reduced fat margarine
4 beaten egg yolks
2 Tablespoons of water
2 Tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, not bottled
White pepper and salt for seasoning if desired

We'll prepare this Hollandaise Sauce in our microwave. Start by melting the margarine. Combine the egg yolks with the water, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Whisk into the melted margarine and cook in the microwave until sauce thickens. If it is too thick, add a bit of water.

This makes a lovely, light sauce for steamed asparagus as well as other vegetables.

Commercially Prepared Canned Soups

These make excellent quick sauces for meats and vegetables on the meal plate. Try adding cooked bacon - you can prepare it yourself in the microwave and it will contain a tiny 25 calories per slice, or you can purchase a jar of real bacon bits - to reduced fat mushroom soup along with 1/3 cup of reduced fat sour cream.

If you use the full-blown sour cream, then only add 1/4 cup to the soup along with the bacon. You can add as much or as little of the bacon as you wish.

Pour over warm prepared pasta or green beans for a very quick meal.

When dieting, it's a great idea to view the nutrition labels on the sauces that you intend to serve with the foods on your meal plate. Looks can be deceiving when it comes to sauces but generally, the ones prepared with a creamy rather than a broth or tomato (or other vegetable) base also tend to be higher in caloric and dietary fat values.

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