Sesame Citrus Bok Choy
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Tag: low sodium
Three Onion Dip {Dairy-Free}
I’m going to make this quick for a coupla reasons. One, we’re putting our house on the market this week so there’s work to be done and two, I’ve managed to catch a stomach bug so the work that is supposed to be getting done, isn’t. This …
Oven Fries with Sour Cream Chive Sauce
My two girls are off school for a few days which means my house is much more chaotic. It also means the volume is amped up tenfold with random singing (or fighting) among children. They were sent outside after a heated game of Monopoly Jr. to wear off some steam yesterday and at the moment they are deeply entrenched in an Xbox Kinnect game giving me a small amount of respite. Lunch preparations when all of us are home together on the weekdays are a unique moment to have fun “kid food”. Enter stage left: oven fries with sour cream chive sauce. These oven fries are quick to put together and the kids love them (so do I!). Prepare these easy baked chicken tenders at the same time and you’ve got a delicious healthy lunch!
The key to a good oven fry is to soak the cut fries in cold water first. After I cut them into sticks, I place the fries in a bowl of lightly salted cold water for 30 minutes. This pulls some of the starch out of them. The starch is what makes fries flexible so by removing some, it helps them crisp up as well as possible.
While the oven fries are soaking, combine the seasonings with the olive oil. Drain the fries from their cold water bath and place on a kitchen towel. Dry them slightly with the towel so the majority of the water is removed. Combine the fries with the seasonings in a bowl and then place them on a baking sheet. You will want to turn the fries at least once halfway through baking.
While the oven fries are baking, the sauce comes together super quick. Just whisk up the ingredients and you’re ready for some delectable dipping.
Oven Fries with Sour Cream Chive Sauce
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Author: Kari - CookingUpClean
Recipe type: Sides
Cuisine: gluten free
Serves: 3-4 servings
Ingredients
- 3 potatoes
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ½ teaspoon salt (reduce to ¼ tsp for low sodium)
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- FOR THE SOUR CREAM CHIVE SAUCE:
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 2 tablespoons milk, buttermilk or coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon chives
- ¼ teaspoon salt (omit for low sodium)
Instructions
- Cut potatoes into fry sized sticks and soak in lightly salted cold water for 30 minutes
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- While fries are soaking, mix the garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper and paprika and set aside.
- Drain fries and place on a kitchen towel. Dry them so that they are not super wet.
- Toss fries and seasoning mixture together in a bowl and place on baking sheet.
- Bake fries for approximately 30 minutes turning once halfway through.
- While fries are baking, whisk together the ingredients for the sour cream sauce in a small bowl.
- Serve hot from the oven with the sour cream sauce on the side for dipping!
Notes
Low sodium options = 119mg per serving
Nutrition Information
Calories: 166 Fat: 9g Carbohydrates: 21g Sodium: 329mg* Fiber: 2g Protein: 3g
Coconut Lemongrass Ice Cream
This weekend’s valentine treat assortment begs for a little ice cream love. The kind that’s a little exotic, creamy delicious, and goes with chocolate. This coconut lemongrass ice cream conjures up distant memories of when I used to travel for work visiting sweater and outwear factories. After the day’s …
Chambord Dark Chocolate Truffles
These little confections…Chambord dark chocolate truffles… I. CAN’T. GET. ENOUGH. Nevermind that one of my absolute favoritest things in the whole world is dark chocolate. Put that into a silky smooth centered truffle and my life is complete. Everyone thinks that making a great truffle …
Spicy Yogurt Dip
This week is going to be a simple one easy recipe post kind of week. My husband, Jason, and I are celebrating our 10 year anniversary on Thursday so we’re skipping out of town to celebrate. We were married in the Van Dusen mansion in downtown Minneapolis on a rather warm day for January so as a fun reminder of our mansion wedding, we are staying at a mansion turned bed and breakfast in a nearby town. I am SUPER excited to leave the kids behind and get out for some wining, dining and relaxing together. Grinning from ear to ear at the notion of getting out with my main man!
Football season is quickly coming to a close this weekend so I’ll leave you with one great appetizer for your Super Bowl party spread. This spicy yogurt dip is packed with flavor and spice to go perfectly with any dippers you choose to serve it with. Veggies, pretzels and even chicken skewers go wonderfully well with spicy yogurt dip. Using a homemade salsa or one that’s not super chunky will work best to give it the right dippable consistency. I’ve used this dip as a marinade for chicken breasts as well and they turned out deliciously moist and tender with exceptional flavor. Best of all, spicy yogurt dip comes together in about 5 minutes for a super easy appetizer!
Spicy Yogurt Dip
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Author: Kari - CookingUpClean
Recipe type: Sauces and Dips
Cuisine: vegetarian
Serves: 1½ cups
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain unsweetened Greek yogurt
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- ¼ cup salsa (thinner less chunky salsa works better)
- 1 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 teaspoons cumin
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- ¼-1/2 tsp pink himalayan salt, to taste (use just a pinch for low sodium)
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
- Serve with veggies, pretzels, chicken skewers or other dippers of your choice!
Notes
reduce salt to just a pinch for low sodium for 124mg per serving or omit for 89mg serving
Nutrition Information
Serving size: ¼ cup Calories: 43 Fat: 2g Carbohydrates: 3g Sodium: 159mg* Fiber: 0g Protein: 4g
Baked Sweet Potato Fries
Happy Friday!! This post will be super quick… and the recipe for baked sweet potato fries is nearly as quick to make. A lot of you are partaking in whole foods or other healthy eating challenges now that the holiday has past so here’s a delicious side …
Vanilla Pear Donuts
Last week, I spent many hours baking to prep for a breakfast I was providing for 60 of my husband’s co-workers. I created this recipe especially for this event so I could present something extra special. It was a huge success and one of the highlights …
Cranberry Orange Breakfast Bread
I am so impressed with my husband right now. For his work, the managers take turns bringing a Friday breakfast selection for everyone to munch on. Jason has decided that he (meaning me) should bake up some healthy breakfast items and provide the team with a new perspective on what makes a great delicious breakfast focusing on items that are gluten and dairy free. One of his teammates is allergic to both wheat and dairy so he often is left without being able to participate in the breakfast buffet camaraderie as it many times means sugary donuts, muffins and the like. This Friday will be very different. He will be able to sample every single dish. This Cranberry Orange Breakfast Bread is one of 4 breads/muffins/donuts that I will be making. One of the other breakfast bread options will be this marbled chocolate pumpkin muffin. In addition to 2 egg dishes (a quiche similar to this one, and some prosciutto egg cups), there will plenty of fresh fruit for the taking. I think that everyone will be quite impressed with how delicious a healthy breakfast really can be.
Cranberry Orange Breakfast Bread uses oat flour in place of traditional wheat. Note for anyone allergic to wheat that you need to be sure that this is certified gluten free in order for it to be safe to eat. If you don’t have oat flour, you can make it! Take some rolled oats, pulse them in a food processor or blender until it’s fine enough to resemble a grainy flour. This discovery has me giddy. Not only are oats more accessible than other non-wheat flours like coconut flour or almond flour, you can sub it 1 for 1 in place of wheat flour. So far, I’ve had no issues doing just that with great results. The oats lend a slightly sweeter and nuttier flavor to baked goods. It’s pretty much God’s gift to gluten free baking. I mean, who wants to use 5 or so flours as in many gluten free recipes?!?! I, for one, do not.
So I leave you with visions of cranberry orange breakfast bread to dance in your head. Fuel for your day without the sugar crash an hour later. It’s the way breakfast was intended. Every last crumb to be savored, bite by bite in true breakfast bliss.
Cranberry Orange Breakfast Bread
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Author: Kari - CookingUpClean
Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 8 slices
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- juice of one orange (approx. ¼ cup) plus the zest
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ½ cup maple syrup or honey
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (use ¾ tsp for low sodium)
- ¼ teaspoon pink himalayan salt (omit for low sodium)
- 2 cups oat flour
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1½ cups whole fresh cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Whisk wet ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
- Stir dry ingredients (except cranberries) in a bowl and then gradually add wet ingredients into dry.
- Mix well and then stir in the cranberries.
- Pour batter into a lightly greased loaf pan.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes until golden and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Notes
*for low sodium, omit the salt and use only ¾ teaspoon baking soda = 120mg per slice
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 slice Calories: 184 Fat: 9g Carbohydrates: 26g Sodium: 210mg* Fiber: 4g Protein: 4g
Orange Pomegranate Holiday Salad
Inspiration comes in very odd forms sometimes. For example, I mixed up the main ingredients of this orange pomegranate holiday salad and was debating what sort of dressing would pair well with it. It happens that my daughters were making up some hot chocolate right …
