Healthy Recipes on the eve of Thanksgiving...does this sound unusual as well as boring?

When we think of all the oily and health hazards recipes for example stuffed turkey, rich creamy sauce, the buttered mashed potatoes as well as the pumpkin pies, then the word healthy is not a good adjective to be used with them. So why not experiment with some unusual recipe which is nourishing and tasty too?


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In my family, Thanksgiving Day is a very auspicious day and we celebrate it in an enormous manner by welcoming our near and dear ones for the dinner. So for this Thanksgiving Day special, I have a few ideas. I like playing with several ingredients along with flavors. Don't worry.nothing new I am going to do.just few changes to the ordinary Thanksgiving dishes.

Here are a few changes which I have done in the common Thanksgiving Day menu:

Turkey: turkey is a delicacy and could be the appealing dish of your holiday meal or some other celebration for example Thanksgiving Day. Turkey is an extremely lean animal and contains less fat. But when it is basted in butter, it tends to be caloric as well as fatty food. So what Idid here, instead of butter, I used olive oils and baked it. This makes the turkey extremely tasty as well as healthy.

Bread: usually we use white flour for making bread. But I preferred to prepare with wheat flour and thus i serve the bread with baked turkey.

Good Gravy: you know gravy is one of the greatest culprits on the dinner table. Instead of using turkey drippings, i used the vegetable oil while making the gravy. You can also opt for preparing low-fat broth-based gravy or vegetarian gravy instead.

Dessert: dessert is considered to be the last but not the least course of the meal. Inspire of making pies and cheesecakes that are most often loaded with creams, nuts along with caramel, I thought of serving fresh cut fruits in a bowl.

Another modification I did in my Thanksgiving dinner menu is the utilization of leftover ham. With this left over ham, i made a new dish called as Swiss Rosti. Rosti is actually a Swiss potato pancake which can be served as a side dish but I used the ham and change it into an easy as well as mouth-watering Thanksgiving menu. We can truly enjoy the dish with boiled asparagus along with applesauce on the side.

This year it was not very difficult for me to create some new ideas in my family's Thanksgiving menu. I just made few variations and it was a hit. Go ahead and try your own invented ideas. This could be the way to impress your family and friends.

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Take a look at the free Thanksgiving Cookbooks. You can also take a look at some yummy apple recipes