Latina Lite Cooking: 200 Delicious Lowfat Recipes form All Over the Americas

by Maria Dolores Beatriz

Overview

Entertaining, practical, and informative, "Latina Lite Cooking" provides 200 recipes for low-fat yet delicious fare from the cuisines of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Spain, and all of Latin America, plus the author's state-of-the-art weight reduction plan and her unique message of self-empowerment.A.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446564885
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	09/26/2009
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	409,106
File size:	788 KB

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Chilled Vegetable Soup (Gazpacho)

Gazpacho would not exist if the Spanish explores introduced tomatoes to the Spaniards. The secret of good gazpacho rests in the tomatoes. Prepare this dish only in tomato season and choose the reddest, juiciest, ripest tomatoes.

Colombian Chicken-Potato Soup(Ajiaco)

Throughout Latin America, dinner usually begins with soup. It may be clear liquid sopa, or heartier caldo, broth or una crema, a delicate cream-based purée. Often, soup such as pozole, birria, cocido, or asopao is an entire meal. Rice and pasta dishes are also considered thick sopas. Traditionalists consider any meal incomplete without soup.

Cornmeal Patties (Arepas)

Fried cornmeal cheese patties are popular throughout South America. A great accompaniment to any meal instead of tortillas or bread.