Cut Butter for Healthier Thanksgiving Eating
When it comes to the Thanksgiving and the holiday season, eating right can staying healthy can be more than a little tricky. It’s almost taken as a given that you can’t stick to a healthy eating plan during holiday meals. Still, there are ways to trim some of the fat out of holiday meals to make them healthier, starting with all of the butter that goes into cooking many holiday favorites.
Whether it’s used for sauteing or just oiling your cooking surface to keep foods from sticking as they cook, the butter used in many recipes really starts to add up. You have a few tablespoons in the green bean casserole, some in the mashed potatoes, more in the yams, etc. Then, if you have any alternative main courses to the usual turkey, you often use butter to cook those as well.
By cutting some of the butter, you can cut some of the fat of your holiday meals. If you’re sauteing vegetables to add to a dish, you can substitute extra virgin olive oil if you’re cooking in a regular pan. If you’re using a SkilLite™ Searing Skillet, you can even cut this butter entirely because the George Tough™ nonstick surface is actually designed to cook without a need for butter or oil—even on delicate foods like vegetables.
This also works on your grill if you’re cooking alternative meats or vegetarian dishes for guests that don’t eat turkey. You can simply set the food on the grill without oil or butter, which cuts the fat out of your finished meal. If you’re looking for more ways to cut the butter, you can even do different versions of some holiday favorites, like grilled pumpkin or Grilled Sweet Potatoes with Cranberry Coulis.
We’ll have more on how to plan for the holidays and make your holiday meals healthier right here on our blog. We’ll also have a post soon for tips on how to grill pumpkin for a great Thanksgiving treat. You can also find more information on cooking for the holidays with George Foreman in the Holiday Cooking section of this blog.
