Heart Healthy Recipe

Heart Healthy Recipe

You may already know that heart healthy recipes margarine spreads are good for topping foods to present them a tasty, buttery flavor. But do you know they are perfect for cooking and baking, too?

To see if a spread is heart-healthy, search for a cholesterol-free soft tub spread that’s made from fifty percent to sixty percent vegetable oils, has 2 grams or a lesser amount of saturated fat and features no trans fat per serving.

Dana Jacobi, author with the “12 Best Foods Cookbook,” offers the following pointers for cooking and baking with margarine spreads:

* To measure soft tub spread correctly, ensure that you level the cup or spoon.

* When sautéing, use medium heat to keep up the flavor and avoid burning the spread.

* For baking, chill the spread inside freezer before measuring it when the recipe needs creaming it with sugar.

* When melting a spread for baking, keep in mind that it melts quickly. In the microwave, 3 tablespoons of tub spread melts in 15 seconds, versus a short period for butter.

Now you are sure that which spreads to select and how to cook together, try it out for yourself. The following recipe works on the heart-healthy spread and produces perfect results.

 

DANA JACOBI’S OATMEAL-RAISIN COOKIES

(Makes 36 cookies)

Heart Healthy Recipe

1/3 cup chilled Promise Buttery Spread

1 cup sugar

1 large egg, at room temperature

1 tablespoon mild molasses

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups rolled oats

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 cup raisins

3/4 cup sliced almonds

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and hang up aside.

Use a power mixer on medium speed to cream Promise Buttery Spread with sugar until it truly is pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

Mix in egg, molasses, vanilla and viagra salt. Using a rubber spatula, stir in flour, oats, baking soda and cinnamon until almost blended. Add raisins and almonds, mixing gently until ingredients are combined.

Drop the dough 1 tablespoon at any given time onto the baking sheet, spacing them 3 inches apart.

Bake for 12 minutes or until prednisone cookies are golden brown. Cool for 1 minute within the pan, then transfer into a wire rack and cool completely. – NU

 

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