Showing posts with label sauce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sauce. Show all posts

Friday, July 1, 2022

chipotle creme

 https://lillieeatsandtells.com/two-ingredient-skinny-chipotle-creme/


  • 1 cup fat free sour cream or light sour cream, mayo, or greek yogurt.*
  • 2 chipotle peppers plus 1 tbs sauce from canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce (found at most grocery stores near the green chilis and enchilada sauce etc. I prefer this Embasa brand but otherwise just check the nutrition facts, some are surprisingly higher in carbs. No deal-breakers but still…
  • Spoon 1 cup sour cream into a small food processor, or blender jar.
  • Add about 2 chipotle peppers plus 1 tbs of the sauce (depending on how much heat you like) to the sour cream and blend or process… all done!
  • OR
  • You can just do a quick fine chop of your peppers and then stir them in yourself if you hate dirtying the big appliances. I do that when I’m in a pinch and realize I’m out when I’m in the middle of building my sandwich!

NOTES

  • *(I prefer the sour cream because I usually run out of protein a the end of a day and am not looking to add any from the greek yogurt… and I prefer the consistency. But all of them work! If you use lite sour cream because it’s hard to find fat free… I would just log the lite sour cream – the addition of the peppers changes the macros so little.)
  • Sometimes I add a little lime juice (like Bobby Flay in his chipotle mayo)  and a pinch of salt… particularly when I’m using it for tacos. But since I make so much at a time,  I keep it in my fridge with just the two ingredients because I think the lime juice makes it turn bad faster.)
I always make double this since we eat so much. I blend a WHOLE container of sour cream with 4-5 peppers and a couple of tbs of sauce, and then pour it back in the sour cream container to scare anyone who comes over and opens it expecting it to be white.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Sauce

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i love garlic :)

i also love spaghetti but i had gotten burnt out by the same old same old....so last time and this time, i worked harder at making my jar of sauce better.

here's what i did

NEED:
1 jar of sauce (i use ragu)
garlic finely minced (or not so fine... like me)
julianned carrots chopped up
1/2-1 whole sweet yellow onion chopped
ground beef
wine (red is best but i only had white zin)
salt
pepper
dried italian herbs

DO:
add olive oil to a saute pan and get hot
add carrot, onion , garlic, herbs, salt and pepper
stir and cook on med-high for 5-10 minutes
add ground beef and cook until ALMOST not pink
add wine and simmer until wine is almost gone
add jar of sauce
stir and cook until heated through

serve over hot pasta!