Best healthy sauces make your meals and desserts delicious when they’re made with tasty food pairings and ingredients.
They can be a good way to add in extra fiber, protein, minerals, vitamins, and anti-inflammatory healthy ingredients like spices.
Sauces like a cottage cheese tartar sauce with no mayonnaise or cottage cheese Green Goddess dressing (that is green goodness). Or an Asian wonton dipping sauce. I didn’t get it as a kid, but I get it now.
And I now appreciate a cocktail sauce without ketchup. That’s low-sugar. And a mayonnaise that’s low-fat, but loaded with healthy fat.
And then I grew up and out of college, and worked in hotels and restaurants as a catering professional where sauces were part of my everyday planning. In hotels, the sauces were always rich and buttery.
Healthy is not a word tossed around in hotel settings then and any day, but delicious and tasty is. That’s where I developed my rich tastes. And then later on when I came back to restaurant working, I was in charge of planning restaurant events with Mediterranean food menus for a dozen restaurants.
Those were healthier food ingredient influences that I felt better about as I evolved, but still not low-fat. There were taste testers and no calorie counters.
But fast forward a decade, and I’m making my own kitchen sauces where I comfortably marry the tasty and healthy. There’s no sauce without both as priorities… because then it’s just plain food meals or eating whole foods.
Pasta plain is no complaints good, but even better with a warm pumpkin sauce with no tomatoes…
That better was once butter and tomatoes as star ingredients when those daily weren’t as harsh on the gut. And now is better in the background. Maybe for you too?
And brunch can today be done without butter! But it’s not brunch without French bistro tasting vibes with all the flavor profiles, that you can get with a Bearnaise sauce with no butter.
You can easily make this with ingredients that you can stock in your pantry or are already there. And then you can make your own Eggs Benedict with poached eggs.
And for sweets to balance savory, what about silver dollar pancakes with pineapple creme anglaise? …and if you don’t like pineapple, simply omit that ingredient and sub in lemon zest or vanilla extract for a custard… it’s that simple!
Keep coming back for new and exciting sauces.. that are also healthy!