Thanksgiving recipes

NicoleMarie2486
NicoleMarie2486 Posts: 30 Member
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Anyone have any healthy dishes they like to make for Thanksgiving? Any desserts?

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  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    A clafouti is a relatively healthy dessert and easy to make. It's basically fruit baked in a thin, lightly sweetened batter. My recipe for one is here: http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/fruit-dessert/cherry-clafouti.html?p=1

    Although the recipe is for a relatively small one in a skillet, you can easily double it and cook in a rectangular baking dish.
  • lucys1225
    lucys1225 Posts: 597 Member
    Although not low in calorie, they are relatively healthy and so good. http://www.allergyfreealaska.com/2012/12/06/guilt-free-pecan-pie-cookies/
  • icemom011
    icemom011 Posts: 999 Member
    I will be making tex-mex spaghetti squash this year, it's delicious and very beautiful and festive looking dish. As a variation of tex mex, stuffed zucchini or yellow squash boats. Looks great, and soooo good. Pies for dessert for me, ;)
  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,281 Member
    Pick up any year's issue of Cooking Light for November. Tons of ideas, awesome food. I don't try to make every dish into a lower fat/calorie dish, but it's nice to have 1-2 that I know aren't loaded up on things I don't normally use so much of.
  • mccraee
    mccraee Posts: 199 Member
    we don't mess with thanksgiving. Every dish is a tradition. There can be no messing with it. My way of dealing with it is to only do it one day. Not the whole 4 day weekend. I will eat tons of leftover turkey but I'm done with stuffing and gravy after the big dinner!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »
    A clafouti is a relatively healthy dessert and easy to make. It's basically fruit baked in a thin, lightly sweetened batter. My recipe for one is here: http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/fruit-dessert/cherry-clafouti.html?p=1

    Although the recipe is for a relatively small one in a skillet, you can easily double it and cook in a rectangular baking dish.

    I love those things. I've made this one https://lapetitepaniere.com/2013/12/30/apricots-clafoutis/ with peaches twice and it's really tasty. I used 1% milk and you could never tell.

    Skinnytaste has a recipe for a pumpkin one too.

    Personally, I just make lower calorie mashed potatoes (1% milk, only a bit of butter) and avoid adding sweeteners in sweet potatoes, but I don't really change anything else. I wouldn't mess with desserts either way... it's really my favorite part by far about Thanksgiving food (I could really do without all the other stuff).

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