Diet holiday meals: recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The holidays are not only an opportunity to have a good time with family and friends. Thanks to long weekends and family feasts, we can enjoy delicious, mouth-watering food that is tempting for all gourmets. But what if just during this period you decided to go on a diet? Are you really going to have to give up savory foods and eat one dry oatmeal?

Of course not! In cooking, there are many different recipes for dietary holiday dishes. With a photo and a detailed description of some of them, it does not hurt to get acquainted with zealous hostesses. For whatever reasons you go on a diet (you need to lose weight or the pancreas has failed), you should not be upset on the eve of the celebration: you obviously won’t have to sit hungry and look sadly at the rich abundance of all kinds of goodies. In the material below, you will definitely find useful information for yourself.

So, we bring to your attention a selection of detailed recipes for dietary holiday dishes - with a photo and a detailed description.

Amazing variations for familiar dishes

Diet cooking tour let's start withunusual for us ways of serving banal holiday foods. What is this about? Of course, about the well-known herring “under a fur coat” and Olivier. How can you imagine festive dishes for the New Year without them?! Diet food, however, makes its own adjustments.

Firstly, it is best to abandon high-calorie mayonnaise and replace it … you will read about this below.

Secondly, it is recommended to get rid of some other heavy foods by finding suitable and tasty replacements for them.

Useful herring “under a fur coat”

Let's start the list of recipes for dietary dishes on the festive table with this dish. A set of products that is banal for us (beets, carrots and potatoes, taken in equal quantities, and s alted herring) will enrich such an interesting ingredient as yogurt mayonnaise. Let's talk about its preparation separately.

To get a he althy and low-calorie sauce, you should have the following ingredients:

• Regular unsweetened yogurt (no additives) in the amount of half a liter.
• One or two cloves of garlic.
• A few teaspoons of olive oil.
• Table spoon of lemon juice.
• A teaspoon of mustard.
• S alt, ground pepper - to taste.

Above is a conditional list of components of dietary mayonnaise and their quantities. It all depends on your taste and preferences.

So, in a blender, mix all the ingredients until a gentle homogeneous mass, and then grease the boiled vegetables grated on a coarse grater, laid in layers.

Here you can also usea little trick - do not boil the vegetables, but bake them in foil or a sleeve, or steam them. This method of thermal processing of products will give the dish an unsurpassed taste and delicate aroma.

Herring for a “fur coat” should be taken lightly s alted so as not to harm the stomach and kidneys, which will affect not only he alth, but also the figure in the form of unnecessary edema and extra centimeters. Before use, fish meat can be soaked in a small amount of milk. This will not only rid the product of unnecessary s altiness, but also give it a delicate aftertaste.

By the way, since we are preparing a dietary dish (for a festive table or just like that - not so important), we will not break the rules and replace - in whole or in part - potatoes with boiled chicken eggs. Finely chopped, they will make your salad lighter. If you are hesitant to completely abandon the usual recipe, reduce the amount of potatoes and mix it with eggs. The effect will be almost identical.

Olivier for weight loss

This salad today, despite the widest range of original and delicious snacks, is considered by many to be festive. There are just a lot of recipes for simple and tasty dietary dishes with photos and important tips on the relevant information resources, and yet people do not change the dish that has already become a classic. What can be modified in this familiar salad to make it less calorie?

First, the sausage. It is better to remove it, and use chicken or tender veal. Meat can be boiled or baked in the oven using a baking sleeve or foil. Alsoinstead of sausage, you can put boiled shrimp or salmon fillet.

Secondly, instead of canned peas stuffed with unnecessary preservatives, it is best to take green frozen and slightly heat it for a couple. Then let cool and put in salad.

Regarding pickles. It is also better to remove them so as not to irritate the kidneys and stomach. Take fresh cucumbers. They will give the dish a spring aroma and a pleasant taste.

Potatoes can also be replaced with plenty of boiled eggs. If they don't fit, try an avocado.

So, the ingredients familiar to us, taken in any quantity convenient for you, cut and mix. Season everything with light homemade mayonnaise or the sauce described above.

Useful “Mimosa”

This is also a traditional holiday dish. In the process of preparing dietary “Mimosa”, it is important to use canned fish not in oil, but in its own juice. Or you can take a delicious slightly s alted fish or even smoked salmon. Here you can experiment at your discretion.

The rest we do everything as recommended above: a minimum of potatoes, more eggs, homemade mayonnaise and do not spare onions (bulb or green). It will give the salad originality and piquancy.

So, put the first layer of fish, chopped boiled proteins, then potatoes, grated carrots, onions and grated yolks. Don't forget to brush with light mayonnaise or other suitable sauce.

And we move on. Greek salad - already familiar anda favorite dish in our country - festive and dietary! The recipe with photos and step-by-step instructions is presented below.

Food from distant Greece

What ingredients do you need to make it? Take:

• sweet large tomatoes;
• bell pepper;
• not very bitter onion;
• a couple of fresh cucumbers;
• uns alted cheese (or homemade cheese);
• pitted olives;
• lettuce.

The cooking method is simple:

• Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
• Chop the pepper into strips.
• Cut the onion into half rings.
• Cucumber - rings or half rings (depending on size).
• The olives can be cut in half.
• Randomly tear the salad with your hands.

Salad season with a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice, taken in equal proportions.

In addition to the dish, you can put Korean-style carrots, boiled chicken, halves of eggs (especially quail), apples. As you can see, the recipe can be modified. There would be desire and fantasy.

Instead of oil and lemon juice, you can dress the salad with light mayonnaise.

These fabulous seafood

Who said that the diet is boring oatmeal or buckwheat on the water, fat-free cottage cheese and vegetable soups? It is quite acceptable and even necessary to introduce fish and he althy seafood into the diet. Shrimp, squid, mussels and octopus will make an ordinary diet dish festive. Photos of such treats invariably arouse appetite, and loversexperiments and the desire to conjure in the kitchen. Let's discuss some recipes.

Seafood salad

It is clear that there can be many variations on this theme. Here are just a few recipes for dietary holiday dishes - tasty and he althy at the same time.

For example, “Sea Salad” looks very good. It is prepared quite simply:

1. Cut two cucumbers and four tomatoes into small cubes.
2. Boil one hundred grams of peeled shrimp and two hundred grams of squid in s alt water for two to three minutes.
3. Tear lettuce leaves, mix all the ingredients, season with sauce or a mixture of olive oil and lemon juice.
4. S alt and pepper to taste.

Bake seafood

These ingredients are already so firmly established in our lives that they are an integral part of many recipes. It so happened that your menu consists exclusively of dietary dishes? Recipes for festive dishes today are so diverse that a diet is not at all a reason to deny yourself the pleasure of sitting at a richly laid table.

What is their essence? Below is one of the options.

We will need:

• Squid carcass.
• Peeled shrimp.
• Lemon and orange juice.
• A clove of garlic.
• Spices.

All ingredients are taken in any quantity - according to your tastes and preferences. So, marinate seafood in citrus juice and spices for about 40-50 minutes. Then put on a baking sheet and bake infor three or four minutes.

If you want the dish to be juicy, wrap the food in foil. If you want a crispy crust, grill or pan.

You can season ready-made seafood with a sauce of olive oil, minced garlic, lemon juice, spices and s alt.

And here is another version of the dish on the marine theme. To do this, take:

• six large squid carcasses;
• five chicken eggs;
• fifty grams of butter;
• the so-called Hawaiian mix, which includes corn, peas, boiled rice, bell peppers, mushrooms (to taste and desire).

So, wash the squid carcasses, peel and boil in s alted water for three minutes. We also boil the eggs, then simmer the Hawaiian mixture in a frying pan greased with butter for about three minutes, then add a little water and simmer for another ten minutes.

Then you should grate the eggs on a coarse grater and mix with the prepared Hawaiian mixture. This will be our filling, which needs to be filled with squid carcasses. It remains to secure the edges with toothpicks, send to the oven and bake for twenty minutes.

If you like to use the microwave, then this dish can be cooked there in seven to eight minutes.

However, let's move on to the most important thing - diet holiday meat dishes.

Meat recipes. All kinds of salads

Most likely, many consider such dishes to be the most appetizing, tasty and fragrant at any feast.

Salad "Puff". For himcooking, we need the following products:

• chicken breast (eight hundred grams);
• one can of canned corn;
• two large tomatoes;
• fifty grams of grated cheese;
• two tablespoons of vinegar;
• greens;
• mayonnaise or dressing sauce - to taste.

How to cook this yummy? First, cut the boiled chicken fillet and tomatoes into cubes, then carefully drain the juice from the corn and finely chop the parsley.

Put the prepared ingredients into beautiful molds. First corn, then meat, then tomatoes on top. Pour everything with mayonnaise or sauce mixed with vinegar. Decorate with grated cheese. This recipe makes eight servings.

Another festive salad is also considered an unusual and appetizing dish, for which you need to purchase the following ingredients:

• two chicken breasts (fillet);
• two hundred grams of Beijing cabbage and cucumbers;
• one hundred grams of carrots;
• two pieces of lemon;
• green onions;
• soy sauce or mayonnaise;
• spices - to your taste.

Fresh chicken fillet must be cut into strips and marinated in lemon juice and soy sauce for a quarter of an hour. Then fry until golden brown in a pan. Carrots and cabbage must also be chopped into strips, green onions finely chopped. We mix all the ingredients, season with soy sauce or homemade mayonnaise at our discretion, sprinkle with herbs and spices, decorate with lemon slices. The products mentioned above are enoughfor four servings.

However, you must admit, the festive table cannot do with salads alone.

How without hot?

Below, consider two recipes for delicious and he althy meat dishes.

For the first option, take:

• one kilogram of chicken fillet;
• half a kilo of mushrooms (everyone's favorite champignons);
• one hundred grams of cheese and low-fat sour cream each.

Chicken breast cut into medium-sized pieces, you can marinate in vinegar, lemon juice or soy sauce, beat off. Then fry until half cooked, preferably without the use of oil.

After that, put coarsely chopped mushrooms into the pan, fry them until golden brown, simmer for ten minutes. Then sour cream and spices are added to the dish.

After cooking the meat and mushrooms, it is better to transfer all the ingredients into a baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven for a couple of minutes.

The dish goes well with a side dish of rice or potatoes.

The next festive dish for any feast, known to many as meat in French, can be prepared from:

• Low-fat pork, although the ideal dietary meat, of course, is chicken or turkey. But what to take, of course, is up to you.
• It is also necessary to purchase half a kilogram of onions (for one and a half kilograms of meat).
• One hundred grams of cheese and light mayonnaise.

So, cut the fillet into large pieces, beat off, marinate, grease with mayonnaise. Onion choprings (as thin as possible), rub the cheese on a coarse grater. Next, put the onion on a baking sheet or in a baking dish, and on top - the meat. Then we put it in the oven for thirty minutes. After half an hour, sprinkle the dish with cheese and bake for another ten minutes.

Our He althy French Meat is ready!

Thus, as many experienced housewives advise, you can cook a whole fish (or fish fillet without bones).

Fifth table: what is it and what is it eaten with?

Usually this diet is prescribed for liver diseases: hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis and so on. The main idea of such a diet is to limit the consumption of fats, focusing mainly on carbohydrates and proteins.

Are there any holiday diet recipes for diet 5? Yes, for example, you can make beef and cottage cheese soufflé (taken in the amount of half a kilogram and 250 grams, respectively). How to cook it?

Boil the meat, then twist it through a meat grinder along with cottage cheese. Add ten grams of butter and the yolk of one egg, mix thoroughly. Beat the remaining protein and slowly add to the minced meat, stirring constantly. After that, we make balls from the resulting mass, or we shift all the dough into a mold and steam it.

Another recipe suggests using beef and carrots. To do this, raw meat (in the amount of half a kilogram) is twisted in a meat grinder with four medium carrots. A glass of milk and s alt are added to the mixture. After that, you need to make meatballs from minced meat and fry them without using fat and breading.

Uncomplicated pancreatitis

It would seem, well, what are the festive dishes for pancreatitis? Diet, of course! And you don't have to be upset. They, too, can be both appetizing and fragrant. Of course, boiled vegetable salads, low-fat dietary meat (only rabbit, veal or turkey), stewed fish are invariable components of the patient's daily diet, but on a holiday they can be served and decorated in a special way.

What is the best thing to cook? First of all, the Caesar salad. For this you will need:

• two hundred grams of boiled fillet;
• fifty grams of hard cheese;
• a couple of slices of bread;
• chicken yolks;
• lettuce;
• for dressing - a tablespoon each of olive oil and lemon juice, s alt and pepper to taste.

Boil the meat, fry the bread in the oven (without vegetable oil), beat the boiled yolks with lemon juice and olive oil (for pouring). Cut the remaining ingredients into large pieces, lay out beautifully, season with sauce.

Another delicious dish that can be prepared with pancreatitis consists of boiled veal (three hundred grams), Beijing cabbage (half a kilogram), Korean carrots (without hot spices, two hundred grams), a couple of boiled chicken eggs, a handful of peeled walnuts nuts and fresh cucumbers in the amount of two pieces.

All products are cut into strips and mixed. If desired, lightly s alt and drizzle with olive oil.

Must have sweets

Desserts are considered important mealsany holiday feast. How can you pamper yourself and at the same time not harm the body and not get better?

The easiest thing to make is baked apples and fruit jellies. Let's dwell on the latter in more detail.

For dessert, we need any fruit or berry juice (it can be grape, apple or cherry nectar) and a few packs of gelatin.

Dissolve gelatin according to the instructions on the package using the above mentioned juices. Then we dip a few berries or fruit pieces into bowls or beautiful glasses, pour everything with the prepared liquid and send it to the refrigerator for several hours. If you have the opportunity and desire, you can add sugar.

Milk soufflé is also a very tasty dietary dessert. To prepare it, you need to take 250 milliliters of skimmed milk and fifteen grams of gelatin.

Dissolve gelatin in milk according to the instructions. Then pour one teaspoon of cocoa into the hot liquid and add stevia (in the form of an extract - three or four drops, in the form of a powder - half a teaspoon), mix thoroughly.

After that, wait until the mixture cools down. After half an hour, beat it with a blender and pour it into pre-prepared containers. Cover with cling film and send to the refrigerator, where the soufflé should harden.

If you cannot imagine a festive table without baking, you can treat yourself to a diet charlotte. To do this, use half a glass of oatmeal and wheat flour, five apples,two eggs, a few tablespoons of honey. Mix all the ingredients for the dough thoroughly and pour into a baking dish. Then add apples cut into small pieces. Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.

A final word

As you can see, there are many diet recipes that are suitable for any holiday feast. These are all kinds of salads, and meat dishes, and a variety of desserts, and even everyone's favorite pastries. A diet is not a reason to refuse to spend time in the company of friends at a table beautifully set and lined with tempting dishes. You just need to spend a little time searching for suitable dishes or make certain adjustments to your favorite ones. The article presents only a few recipes and photos of holiday diet dishes, in fact there are many more, for every taste and budget. Choose any, do not be afraid to create and experiment, and then nothing will threaten your beauty and he alth! After all, he alth is the most valuable thing we have. And beauty, as you know, saves the world.