Summer Salads: What About the Mayo?
Just wanted to pass along one of my favorite RECIPE DOCTOR tips for those creamy and popular mayo-drenched salads that seem to typify summer eatin’.
Here’s the tip:
Instead of adding mayonnaise to salad recipes (as called for), use a combination of light mayonnaise and fat free sour cream. This works really well - I’ve doing it for years. I use the fat free sour cream that comes in the container that looks like a cowhide (Naturally Yours is the brand I believe). It has a subtle flavor so it extends the flavor of the light mayonnaise nicely.
You can use 1/3-cup light mayo and 2/3 cup fat free sour cream to replace a cup of regular mayonnaise.
If that seems too gutsy, start off with 1/2 light mayo and 1/2 fat free sour cream.
Here’s what you save:
If a recipe that makes 8 servings calls for a cup of mayonnaise and you use the 1/3 cup light mayo and 2/3 cup fat free sour cream suggestion, then each serving of your salad will have about 150 fewer calories and 18 fewer grams of fat! Saturated fat also goes down (from 3 grams per serving to .7) along with cholesterol (from 10 milligrams to 5).
And it tastes great too - pretty cool huh?
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