Low calorie sauce

LHorses44
LHorses44 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hello does anyone have any ideas for a low-calorie sauce to drizzle on vegetables or chicken to add some flavor for something different?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I will grab lemon juice, hot sauce, apple cider vinegar, or mustard when I want to add flavor without many calories.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,549 Member
    Spices!!! I like the McCormick Montreal chicken one. SO good on so many things. Or Mrs Dash. Vegetables are great with a half serving of cream cheese in the pan right before serving, shake it around in the hot pan with the vegetables to coat them. Yum.
  • shaumom
    shaumom Posts: 1,003 Member
    Roasted red pepper sauce - take some peeled and roasted red peppers (I make my own to avoid the higher oil content of preserved ones), mix with peeled garlic, chopped jalapeños, and salt to taste and blend together in a food processor, blender, or mortar and pestle. You can add chicken broth for a thinner sauce. Then heat and serve - I have used it over salmon (chicken would likely work fine), or as a sauce to dip flat bread into, or as a pizza sauce sub. It might be a bit too sweet as a pasta sauce, though. Might be good over some veggies, but I haven't tried that yet.

    Meat condiment - just lemon juice, salt, and chopped garlic. Use sparingly, like you would prepared horseradish.

    Pesto-ish sauce - Get a little olive oil and fresh herbs and blend them together to drizzle over chosen dish. Some people add nuts, some people use certain veggies instead of fresh herbs (like broccoli florets and walnuts), but the nuts add more fat. I grow herbs myself so I can make this without so much expense. The herbs with salt make a good rub for chicken, as well.

    Roasted veggie sauce - get a veggie, roast it, and then cool and blend up into a sauce. Can add a broth to help thin it out, and herbs if desired. Roasted veggies will sweeten up a bit, and can often make very tasty sauces to pour over meats or even other veggies. When roasted, cauliflower or other veggies with a bit of a bite can be nice over meats, onions and garlic will make a nice flavor usually, and many of the root veggies will be nicely creamy.

  • HardcoreP0rk
    HardcoreP0rk Posts: 936 Member
    There's this hot pepper and olive relish that I love. You can make it lower calorie by cutting the olive oil way back. I usually add more water and vinegar to adjust mine...

    2 garlic cloves
    1 green chile
    1 red chile
    1/3 cup coarsely chopped cilantro
    leaves from 8 sprigs of 
mint, torn
    1/3 cup pitted green olives, coarsely chopped
    6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil (I use only 2)
    2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar (or any white vinegar)
    Juice of half a lemon


    Crush garlic with salt and prepare it like this: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-garlic-paste-with-just-salt-amp-a-knife-234558

    Halve and seed both chiles and chop them roughly. Add them to the mortar with the garlic, cilantro, mint, and olives and bash everything together, gradually adding the virgin olive oil and balsamic until you have a rough paste (it should be chunky, not puréed). Add lemon juice to taste and set aside.

    Recipe calls for a mortar and pestle. I have used a steel bowl with fruit muddler. I've also used a my food processor.
  • LHorses44
    LHorses44 Posts: 1 Member
    Thanks everyone! These are great ideas I will be trying!
  • Fitnessgirl0913
    Fitnessgirl0913 Posts: 481 Member
    I feel like this is the ONLY post where apple cider vinegar IS the answer lol.

    I like to do a makeshift hot sauce of cayenne pepper and apple cider vinegar, Wisk is together with a fork.

    I also enjoy putting brown horseradish mustard on fish and meat!
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    marinara, salsa, hot sauce, mushroom gravy, cocktail sauce, balsamic vinegar
  • Rammer123
    Rammer123 Posts: 679 Member
    Walden Farms
  • VeronicaA76
    VeronicaA76 Posts: 1,116 Member
    LHorses44 wrote: »
    Hello does anyone have any ideas for a low-calorie sauce to drizzle on vegetables or chicken to add some flavor for something different?

    Victoria's Garden Grown dressing made from vegetables. The spicy red bell pepper one tastes amazing on chicken!!! Two tablespoons have 15 calories, as it's mainly pureed vegetables and some spices.
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