Merry Christmas!! :) Have Healthier Christmas This Year! Make A Healthier Christmas Jello!! How to make jello healthier: I’m always looking for/experimenting with new ideas for easy, “Healthy Swaps”, and jello is one of those desserts where they promote that it is “Fat Free”, but they don’t tell you how much sugar and chemicals is in it!! Having that much sugar can actually make you gain more fat than a fattening dish itself! Try This “Jello Swap”: 1. Start with this one essential ingredient. You can’t make jello without gelatin. In the boxed version, it comes mixed up with the sugar, color and flavorings, but you can buy gelatin, an odorless, tasteless animal protein, in powder form, in packets on its own. It needs to “bloom” in water, then needs to be “melted” by hot liquid before its thickening action takes place in the fridge. The more gelatin you add, the thicker your jello will end up. Adding just an additional envelope of gelatin to your mix can give you jigglers, a hand-held version of jello that’s stiff enough to eat with your fingers or pack into a lunch. 2. Use fruit juice in place of some sugar. Jello should be sweet, but it doesn’t have to be cloying. So in my recipes, I use natural fruit juices instead of sugar. Other advantages of using juice: it adds flavor and color. 3. Fill it with fruit. Another way to flavor your jello is by adding fruit. Fruit adds fiber and other nutrients and also makes it beautiful. If you are using a jello mold and want to make it look impressive, try adding the fruit when the jello is a little fluid (not completely set) so the fruit is suspended evenly in the mixture and doesn’t sink to the bottom or rise to the top of the mold. 4. Make cool colors with natural ingredients. The colorful part can be tricky to achieve without food dye, but there are ways to get a nice array of colors naturally. Try mixing juices, such as white grape juice with purple grape juice to get a pretty light purple hue. We even add spirulina, a dark green edible plankton, which you can find at most natural-foods stores, to one of my jello recipes to get a vibrant green color. (Don’t worry, I only use a little, so its flavor is un-detectable.)
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 19:25:44 +0000
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