Healthy and Easy to Prepare Low Calorie Dessert Recipes
Low
calorie desserts do not need to be bland and tasteless. Mireille Guiliano shows
how to enjoy life and lose weight at the same time with these delicious
recipes.
Low calorie dessert recipes are plentiful in Mireille Guiliano's book,
"French Women Don't Get Fat." Mireille shows how to recast the
stomach by ridding the body of harmful offenders, such as sugar and white flour
and replace them with low calorie, healthy foods. Healthy low calorie desserts
help the dieter stay on the program for life. French women do indulge in treats
and pleasures, but limit the portions. These recipes are being printed with
permission from Mireille Guiliano website.
Strawberry Smoothie
Ingredients
- 10 ounces
strawberries, de-stemmed and halved
- 1 plain
yogurt (1/2 cup)
- 1 teaspoon
honey
- 4 ice
cubes
Yield: 2 servings
Directions on How to Make the Smoothie
Put all the ingredients in a blender. Blend till smooth. Serve at once.
Figs and Ricotta Cheese with Honey
Ingredients
- 12 large
figs
- 1 pound
fresh whole milk ricotta cheese, at room temperature
- 6
tablespoons wildflower honey
Yield: 4-6 Servings
Directions to Prepare the Figs and Ricotta Cheese With Honey
Quarter figs and arrange them on plates. Add a spoonful of ricotta to each
fig and a generous drizzle of honey.
Melon and Lime Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 large
honeydew melon or 2 small cantaloupes
- 1 large
lime
- 1
tablespoon sugar
- 1
tablespoon rum (optional)
- Mint
leaves or lime wedges, for garnish
Yield: 6 servings
Directions to Prepare the Melon and Lime Sauce
- Cut the
honeydew or cantaloupe in half and remove the seeds. Using a melon baller,
remove balls of the melon flesh and place them in a large bowl.
- With a
vegetable peeler, remove the lime rind in thin strips. Then stack the
strips together and cut them into fine julienne pieces. Add the strips to
the melon.
- Squeeze
the lime over a small bowl and mix the juice (approximately 1/3 cup) with
the sugar and rum, if using. Stir the mixture into the melon balls and set
them aside for 1 to 2 hours.
- At serving
time, divide the melon balls among 6 dessert dishes, garnish with mint leaves
or lime wedges and serve.
Grilled Peaches With Lemon Thyme
Ingredients
- 4 peaches
- 2
tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 teaspoon
of honey
- 1/4
teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 4 sprigs
lemon thyme, coarsely chopped
Directions to Prepare the Grilled Peaches with Lemon Thyme
- Rinse
peaches, pat dry, cut in halves, and remove the stone. Place in a baking
dish. Mix the oil, honey and vanilla extract and pour over the peaches.
- Sprinkle
with the lemon thyme. Marinate for 20 minutes turning over once and
basting.
- Grill on
the barbeque for 2 or 3 minutes on each side or until the peach is tender,
but not soft. Serve immediately, alone or with a scoop of ice cream.
According to Guiliano, "The mind is the French woman's ultimate
firewall against getting fat and the senses are of course the portals of the
mind." Enjoy the smells all around, savor the real delicacies of the
universe and then taste only a few bites and be satisfied with the choices made
on this day.
Some will ridicule the follower of such a plan, but then again the true
revenge against such treatment is when the dieter looks in the mirror and is
pleased with what is shown.
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