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| Soul Food Recipes
2010: Soul Food Cooking Getting Leaner, Meaner and Tastier? |
Soul food recipes is going into the new year with a new attitude and
the attitude is leaner and meaner. With more consumers demanding a
healthier diet, this popular southern cuisine continues to clean up its
act. Long criticized for it's high calorie, fat, salt and sugar
content, but love for it's taste soul food continues to reinvent itself
to adapt to a changing public demand.
Now you can find more health friendly ingredients in the recipes.
With the elimination of artery clogging ingredients such as fat back
and ham hocks, often used to add flavor to vegetables and beans, more
cooks use smoked turkey, turkey bacon, turkey ham or turkey sausage
instead. These items contain up to 85-90% less fat than it's
predecessors. In addition, more dishes are prepared by steaming,
roasting, sautéing and stir frying as opposed to the less
healthy deep frying. This helps to preserve the flavor but more
importantly the valuable vitamins and minerals contained in vegetables.
One of the biggest challenges faced by soul food recipe cooks is to
increase the health benefits as well as the taste. Now that
challenge is being met better and better as more creative cooks are
discovering and including more natural and healthier ingredients
in their dishes. For example, natural herbs and spices are slowly
replacing butter, salt, fat. Lemon and lime juice as well as
apple cider vinegar are examples of liquids many cooks are using to
flavor their dishes and add the health element at the same time.
In addition, natural herbs and spices help to add flavor without the
health dangers of the past. For example, healthier seasonings like
onion and garlic powder, rosemary, bay leaves, oregano, tarragon,
peppers and a host of other flavor enhancers help to make today's
healthy soul food recipes leaner, meaner and tastier. With the work of
creative cooks the future looks bright for this popular southern food
favorite.
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