LOW FAT COCONUT MILK
18 oz non fat plain yogurt
8 oz non fat milk
2 packets equal sweetener
2 tsp imitation coconut extract
CURRY
3 cup low fat coconut milk
1 tbsp thai yellow curry base
1/2 lb mushrooms, sliced
3 cup minute rice
Directions
Prepare the imitation coconut milk, or use the real stuff. Place the
coconut milk, mushrooms and the curry base in a sauce pan and warm to
just before boiling. Add the Minute Rice and allow to stand for 10
minutes. This is a low fat version that makes a nice side dish. From:
Syd's Cookbook.
Servings: 4 servings
Low Cal Curried Rice Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Diet; Healthy; Low Calorie; Rice; Vegetable
The History of Recipes
We can read the history of written recipes back into antiquity, at least as far back as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that is, in the main part, these early cook books were just very basic hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
In fact, the oldest recipe found, according to experts is a collection of tablets in the Sumerian language describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel wonderful and blissful. Progressing into Roman times around 25BC a man called Apicius compiled a collection of scripts detailing recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he recounts how the meals were divided into starters, main course and afters, something we still use today. Additionally, he recounts how the chefs of Roman times made use of many herbs, including some that we all recognise for example basil, rue and dill. Later on in the 1400s, the Crusaders brought back many foods and herbs from the East, including spices like coriander, parsley, and rosemary. These new foods and tastes was responsible for an increase in manuscripts on food, most of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. For the next few years, the wealthy families of the West competed to offer the most extravagent meals, and as a result the best chefs and their recipes became highly prized. However, it was during the nineteenth century that formal cookery and recipe books became popular. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, verifying, and writing down recipes common in their social group. By the advent of the twentieth century, cooking books were in great demand, mostly as a result of increased literacy, people having increased spare time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Low Cal Curried Rice recipe.
