Cooking With Suzi

Cooking With Suzi

COOKING WITH SUZI

by Suzi Castle

It's time to start the New Year with a resolution

to treat yourself better. Choose to eat healthier foods; make time for regular exercise.

By setting realistic goals and making small, achievable changes in your lifestyle and

diet, you can lose weight and improve your health. Start by eating less fat, sugar and

salt. Include more fresh fruits and vegetables in your meals and snacks. Choose cooking

methods, such as baking, steaming, barbecuing, roasting, stewing and broiling, that help

remove fat. Select only the leanest fish, poultry and meat available. Substitute fat-free

or low-fat milk, cheese, yogurt. sour cream and ice milk for regular dairy products. New,

improved versions come out every day and are amazingly rich in taste.

Eating healthy doesn't mean that you have to

sacrifice good flavor. Become a connoisseur of spices and herbs--they turn low-cal meals

into fine cuisine. Use fresh lemon or lime juice, fat-free broth, herbs, spices and small

amounts of wine, instead of relying on salt, sugar and fat for flavor. You can enjoy

delicious and easy to prepare foods like Tandoori Chicken, and feel good about that New

Year's resolution to improve your health.

Tandoori Chicken

Ingredients

3 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1 cup plain nonfat yogurt

1 teaspoon each: Morton Lite Salt mixture,

pepper, paprika, dried ginger and curry powder

2 tablespoons lemon juice

2 teaspoon red food coloring, optional

3 cloves garlic, minced

Instructions

Mix all ingredients. Marinate

chicken in refrigerator for eight hours or overnight. Remove chicken from marinade and

place on aluminum foil-lined cookie sheet sprayed with nonstick spray. Bake in a preheated

425 degree oven for 35 minutes, or barbecue 5" from hot coals for 10 to 15 minutes,

turning once. Serve with rice pilaf. Serves 9.

Per serving: 156 cal. (9% from

fat); 20.6g protein; 1.62g fat (0.43g sat.); 1.78g carbohydrate; 302mg sodium; 76mg

cholesterol; 0g fiber. Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 2 fat.

"Suzi Castle's Deliciously

Healthy Favorite Foods Cookbook" is available now in most bookstores or by sending

$18.90 ($14.95 + $3.95 S&H) to: Health Cookbooks, Dept. M, 3520 McCourry Street,

Bakersfield, CA 93304.