What to do when you love dips and sauces but you also want to eat healthy and low calorie diet? I know your favorite dressings do contain lots of calories and fats but what if I tell you some delicious yet healthy sauces recipes? These recipes will make you garnish your food with mouth-watering colorful dips and sauces with low calories and healthy nutrients that will help you boost your health with great taste.
Here are the 8 gorgeous recipes of your favorite dips and sauces that will add nutrients with flavor with lowest calories, to your diet.
8 Low Calorie Healthy Dips and Sauces
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Salsa
Piquant and wow, yummy and colorful salsa sauce is a best way to excite your taste buds. Lots of different flavored salsa sauces are available in supermarkets but they are so full of unhealthy nutrients and calories. As the Calgary-based nutritionist and dietitian, Sarah Remmer said that instead of using packaged salsa sauces you should prepare your own by using chopped tomatoes, lime juice, onions, jalapeno peppers and garlic.
Salsa is a yummiest low calorie and nutrition rich sauce. It contains ingredients like tomatoes, which is a rich source of vitamin A and Vitamin C along with lycopene which is a healthy cancer fighting antioxidant. Garlic and onion are also high in flavonoids that reduces the risk of heart diseases and several types of cancers.
Salsa is a great dressing for taco salad, grilled chicken, turkey sandwich or topping for omelettes. It can also be yummy and healthy dip option for tortilla chips and fish crackers.
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Pesto
The most delicious and popular pesto sauce contains olive oil, basil and pine nuts. Some other forms of pesto sauce contains parsley and cilantro along with almonds and walnuts. As the Remmer says, monounsaturated fats from olive oil and polyunsaturated fats from pine nuts, almonds and walnuts are the super beneficial for the body. Such fats are heart friendly and aids lowering the cholesterols. She further explains that fresh basils have anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties and vitamin K, which is essential for blood clotting. Make sure nuts you are using for homemade pesto, the nuts shouldn’t be sugar coated or pre-roasted in salt.
Pesto triggers the taste when used as pizza sauce, and dip for grilled salmon or chicken or as a veggie dip.
