Law-calorie Snacks

Sandwiches with cotton cheese

Ingredients (for 1 portion):

1 slice of whole bread, 1 table-spoon of skim cotton cheese, 1 table-spoon of Feta cheese, 1 tea-spoon of parsley, a bit of red pepper.
Mix skim cotton cheese with cheese and chopped parsley to receive homogeneous mass. Smear on bread like a paste, decorate with a small circle of sweet pepper.

Calorie content in one portion: 150 kilocalories.

Oatmeal salad

Ingredients (for 1 portion):

2 table spoons of oatmeal, 4 walnuts, 1 small apple, 125 g of skim fruit yogurt.

15 minutes before breakfast pour oatmeal with 2 table-spoons of water. Peel and chop walnuts. Grate apple. Mix everything and season with fruit yogurt. You can replace apple by banana, and yogurt by a skim sour cream.
Calorie content in one portion: 215 kilocalories.

Vegetable fritters

Ingredients (for 4 portions):

1 marrow, 1 carrot, 1 clove of garlic, 1 egg, 2 table-spoons of parsley, 1 tea-spoon of flavouring, meal, 1 table-spoon of vegetable oil.
Grate a carrot and marrow. Cut greens and garlic, mix with vegetables. Whisk egg with flavouring. Mix all ingredients and add meal to receive a consistence resembling not thick sour cream. Fry fritters on a scorching frying pan with oil. Serve up with sour cream or natural yogurt.
Calorie content in one portion: 120 kilocalories.

Salad (4 portions)

2 cayennes, 2 cucumbers, 100 g of brynza, 1 onion, 3 table-spoons of vegetable oil, 1 table-spoon of 3% vinegar, 1 paprika, parsley, salt to your liking.

1. Bake cayenne in an oven, peel off, cut in small particles. Wash tomatoes and cucumbers and cut in cubicles. Chop onion and mix with salt.

2. Mix all products, add cut greens, salt and season with oil, mixed with vinegar. Mix everything.

3. Grate brynza and pour salad with it.

4. Cut a pod of pepper in circles and put on top.

Calorie content in one portion: 185 kilocalories.

Salad of shrimps (2 portions)

300 g of peeled shrimps, a half of big cucumber, 3 table-spoons of natural yogurt, 1 crumbled clove of garlic, 2 table-spoons of cut parsley, a pinch of ground caraway, salt to your liking.

1. Peel off cucumber.

2. Cut a vegetable in small bars.

3. Put bits of cucumber in a salad-dish, mix with shrimps.

4. Mix yogurt, parsley, garlic and caraway. Pour salad with this sauce.

Calorie content in one portion: 200 kilocalorie.

Mandarin salad (6 portions)

150 g of watercress, 100 g of ground spinach, 1 head of chicory, 3 mandarins, peeled and divided into segments, 75 g of fried cedar nuts.
For seasoning: juice of 1 mandarin, 1 lemon and ½ orange, 3 table spoons of olive oil.

1. Mix all juices in blender carefully.

2. Add olive oil.

3. Mix lettuce leaves, mandarins and cedar nuts in a dish.

4. Season with a sauce of juices and oil.

Calorie content in one portion: 170 kilocalories.

Turkey salad (4 portions)

2 table-spoons of olive oil, 350 g of turkey cutlets, cut in thin stripes, 1 onion cut in small particles, 1 tea-spoon of grated lemon peel, 2 small cabbage lettuce, 175 g of cherry tomatoes, cut in half, 1 yellow cayenne cut in stripes, salt and black pepper, coriander greens for decoration.
For seasoning: 1 green avocado, 150 ml of fresh skim cotton cheese, juice of 1 lemon, 2 table-spoons of cut coriander greens, sauce Tabasco or Chili to your liking.

1. Warm up oil in a big frying pan.

2. Fry bits of turkey and onion, stirring slowly, during 10 minutes. Pour with lemon peel. Season with black pepper and salt.

3. Put all ingredients of seasoning in mixer and bring to homogeneous consistence. Season with salt and pepper.

4. Put upper leaves of lettuce on 4 plates, halves of tomatoes and stripes of yellow cayenne. Put bits of hot turkey in the middle, and some seasoning with avocado on top. Pour with coriander leaves.

Calorie content in one portion: 290 kilocalories.

A flower of tomato (1 portion)

1 tomato, cotton cheese (9% fat) – 30 g, sour cream (10% fat) – 30 g, garlic – 15 g, greens – 5 g, lettuce.

1. Cut tomato crow-wise, take out core carefully.

2. Whip cotton cheese with sour cream, mix with cut tomato pulp, season with crumbled up garlic and greens.

3. Fill tomatoes with stuffing and put on lettuce leaves.

Calorie content in one portion: 111 kilocalories.

Cayennes with goat cheese ( 2 portions)

1 red cayenne, 50 g of goat cheese, 1 table-spoon of cedar nuts, 1 tea-spoon of olive oil, salt to your liking.

1. Cut cayenne in 4 parts and cook on grill, put on a dish.

2. Grate cheese.

3. Pour cayenne with cheese and nuts, then sprinkle with olive oil.
Calorie content in one portion: 130 kilocalories.

Pickled shrimps (2 portions)

8 peeled shrimps, 2 table-spoons of vinegar, 1 crumbled clove of garlic, 1 cucumber, salt, pepper.

1. Cook marinade of vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper. Leave shrimps in it for 30 minutes.

2. Cut cucumber in large circles.

3. Put a shrimp on each circle.

Calorie content in one portion: 75 kilocalories.

Stuffed mushrooms (4 portions)

8 very large agarics, 1 lemon, 50 g of butter, greens of parsley for decoration, salt, grease to smear a griddle.

1. Cut caps and put them in boiling water with lemon juice and boil in small fire for 10-15 minutes.

2. Chop stipes in small particles. Smear butter with raw yolks, add cut stipes. Salt to your liking. Stuff caps with this mixture and put on a griddle, smeared with grease.

3. Bake in an oven. Decorate finished mushrooms with parsley.
Calorie content in one portion: 156 kilocalories.

Yana Mikheeva is the creator of the WomansPassions site for women and about women at http://www.womanspassions.com, it is an on-line resource for women and about women. Here you can find articles on various subjects, such as: diets, receipts, health, cellulite, figure, aromatherapy, wholesome food, psychology of relationships, pregnancy, parenting, fashion and many others.

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