Nutritionist Donna Weihofen shares some French recipes on “Live at 5.”
Well following a metro Mediterranean diet is good for your heart and your waistline there are some delicious French recipes that fall right in that category UW nutritionist Donna what often is here this looks good yeah I’m just back from France a culinary tour where I cooked and I drank a lot of all
Right and you think a French food is being really rich and creamy no in the area of Provence there is no there’s no cream and there’s no butter they use olive oil it’s a very healthy way of eating it’s close to the Mediterranean so I made a Nicoise salad
It’s named after the city of nice and this is right on the Mediterranean Sea and so it has it usually incorporates tuna so this is the final product and I’ll put together and we know how they might do it I brought this tuna back from France and they say you must you
Must use the olive oil it should be in olive oil because there’s so much more flavor and the olive oil is good for you but you could use two nights goodbye here it’s a single filet which as you know being fresh green beans and no cucumbers heirloom tomatoes if you can
Give them because they’re so colorful and beautiful and so and then little potatoes a little cooked potato so all of these are cooked ahead and then you can put on some roasted red peppers if you like some artists or drinks some black olives no these are all the traditional ingredients these are all
The traditional ingredients and you can do what you want with it and then maybe a little bit of onion like this so you could put in whatever you want yeah but to be a Nicoise salad it this is and he has to have the fish or tuna and salmon could be okay
Green beans that has the other beans and halves of the potatoes and then you would put on a vinaigrette dressing over the top and perhaps a little bit of feta cheese so you have every food group imaginable represented on one place beautiful so it’s called salad that’s a
Mean oh yeah oh yes it’s your main course yes it’s gonna fill you up I guarantee then you need dessert dessert the French dessert we had most often was with it’s called berry cool vodka foodie and what you do is you put berries in the bottom of a pipe in and
It can be any kind of berries it’s usually made with cherries but if we used blueberries or raspberries and then you take a batter which I won’t pour over the top and you pour it over the top and what’s in there and the batter is more like a pancake batter it’s a
Flan pancake kind of a batter which you pour over the top and bake it and this is what it turns out to be now before you taste let me put a little brandy sauce on it hot brandy sauce and the brandy sauce is made with brown sugar
And brandy and it’s you know have some different kind of texture it’s not a cake texture it’s more of a fun it’s more of a pancake type of that’s delicious yeah sauce is really good isn’t that delicious it is so good that was actually pretty good for you or is
This no and the categories you’re having oh man I wanted to look at the couch you know this under 100 calories per slice yes per slice and just a few more brandy sauce I mean this couldn’t be a healthier more beautiful meal what is beautiful and I’ll go back and get my
Recipes okay thank you all the recipes on online at channel3000.com thanks it’s delicious yeah