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Monday, September 20, 2010

Tips To Create A Delicious Low Fat Lasagna Recipe

by: Rudy

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Making low fat lasagna can be a bit of a trick, if you normally use regular store bought groceries.  This lasagna can be made by replacing some the normal ingredients with more natural ingredients.  Here some of the substitutions that you will have to make.         Noodle strips – Most noodle strips you find in regular store will be made from simple carbohydrates and when digested get into your blood as sugar right away.  This raises your sugar level and if you are pre-diabetic or diabetic this will make you gain weight.   When you eat salad with low fat lasagna, the fiber in the vegetables will trap some of the simple carbohydrates and move them into the colon for elimination.  So, fewer carbohydrates will be absorbed into your blood stream.          Use vegetables such as green leafy lettuce, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, or cauliflower.  You want to eat those vegetables that are high in fiber.  The fiber in these vegetables will help you reduce the fat that is absorbed into your body.         The meat you use needs to be low fat.  You can use hamburger meat but stay away from pork.  When you finish cooking the meat make sure you get as much grease out by squeezing the meat.  Now you can choose not to use meat and go vegetarian.  This is a great way to create a tasty low fat lasagna.         For a vegetarian lasagna, you can put into between the noodle layers cooked spinach or other spinach type lettuces.  To find what spinach type leaves you like you can make part of the lasagna with different leafy vegetables.  When you cook these vegetables, cook for a few minutes and with a small amount of water.         For herbs that you use, you want them to be fresh.  Now, this is not always possible, but you go to a farmers market, you will surely find many fresh herbs to use in your lasagna recipe.  When buying onions, garlic and other herbs make sure you ask the farmer if the produce you’re buying is organic.  You don’t want to use product that has pesticides.         Tomato sauce – you can make your own tomato sauce and this is best, but not always possible.  When you shop, look for tomato sauce that has no sugar. It is sometimes hard to find, but just look at the different brands until you find one.         The Olive oil you want to use for this lasagna is fresh cold pressed.  Pick those bottles that are dark since they protect the olive oil from becoming rancid.          Cheeses – here is the heart of the low fat lasagna. Here’s where you want to choose low fat cheeses.  Never use cheeses that are cut into slices.  These are processed and have additives.   Use only block cheese that is natural and low fat, such as Low fat mozzarella, Low fat parmesan, Cottage cheese, and Low fat ricotta cheese  Use these cheeses in between noodle and sauce layers and end up with the top layer being cheese.

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