Cilantro cream (stanford university)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Cilantro leaves; to 1 1/2 cups
3 Fresh basil leaves
½ teaspoon Ground cumin
2 Cloves garlic; large
½ cup Canola oil**
1 cup Nonfat plain yogurt**
Salt and freshly ground pepper
Grated lime zest; optional

Directions

1. Place the cilantro leaves, basil leaves and cumin in a blender or food processor. With the machine running add the garlic and then dribble in the oil until you have a smooth puree.

2. Fold in the yogurt and season to your taste with salt and pepper. Grate a few shreds of lime zest into the cream if desired, taste and chill thoroughly before serving.

**FAT TRACKING Tip: Reduce the oil to ¼ cup and add ¼ cup nonfat sour cream.

MAKES APPROXIMATELY 1½ CUPS, SERVING SIZE 1 TABLESPOON One tablespoon serving: Calories: 47, Cholesterol (mg): Trace, Saturated fat (g): Trace, Total fat (g): 5, Sodium (mg): 8, Total fiber (g): 0 Notes: The authors say that this is the most popular of all their sauces.

Use as a dip, spread on chili, scallops, salmon, fillet of sole. Can make smaller or larger quantities. Store covered in refrigerator up to whatever the expiration date is on the yogurt.

The Stanford University Healthy Heart Cookbook & Life Plan by Helen Cassidy Page, John Schroeder, M.D., and Tara Dickson, M.S., R.D.

>From the library of: Brenda Adams<adamsfmle@...>; mc and eat-lf (lowfat list) posted 7/22/97

Recipe by: The Stanford University Healthy Heart Cookbook & Life Plan Posted to Digest eat-lf.v097.n185 by Badams <adamsfmle@...> on Jul 22, 1997

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