I thought it would be fun to try to start a discussion for us to share our favorite low sodium recipes. I am interested in trying some new meal ideas.
I would love to read some folk's favorites! I wash all my cooked food which pretty much washes away the taste but that works for me.
I need some low sodium recipes. Its so hard because everything has sodium.
Hummus is one of my favourite foods but is salt heavy. So i now make my own:
Ingredients
2 Tbsp Tahini
1 tin salt free Chickpeas
2 Tbsp Olive oil
1 Tbsp Cumin
4 Cloves of garlic
Juice of 1 and a half lemon
1 tsp fresh ground pepper
Whizz it all together in the food processsor.
I try and avoid processed foods as much as possible and swapped butter to unsalted. I also buy salt n shake crisps and dont add the salt bag.
Its during holidays and eating out that i find it hardest to limit sodium
That hummus sounds WONDERFUL!
I am going to make it this week, thank you!
It tastes odd at first, as do most low salt foods, and you may want to tweak the lemon, garlic and cumin to suit your own taste, but I love that i dont have to stop eating one of my favourite foods
I am regularly eating boiled potato with chick peas, green peas and corn and add mutton mince for taste, I really like that.
Hi,
Ive found it really difficult to find low salt foods but hedes a couple that im loving at the minite.
Homemade pizza, for the base i use a recipe from a spuntino cook book, just leave out all the salt, then for the sauce, just a tin of plum tomatoes with seasoning. Theres 0.1g salt in the whole tin so theres next to nothing on the pizza. Then just toppings of veg and chicken.
Not a recipe but seabrook do 'perfectly unsalted' crisps that are very nice.
Chicken, mushroom, courgette, pepper on skewers covered with paprika then a plain yoghurt with mint on the side to dip in.
Apart from that, a lot of salads and veg.
You can also make salt free pizza base out of just natural yoghurt and flour
Zuchinni lasagna use the strips of zucchini for the noodles...make your own sauce ground beef ricotta delicious.....ill find the exact recipe and send shortly...and no carbs!!!
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your recipes. I have to admit though I am full blooded Italian and none of this sounds good LOL. But I guess we have to do what we need to do to not have attacks.
True! None of it sounds good and life has changed for us as we know it so we have to make the best of what we are dealt. So let's PRETEND it tastes great! Anything to not be sick! I had a 6 hour meltdown yesterday and had a hard time recovering from it. I am praying I can go a few days without another attack. They are killing me.
Hello Bluesmann! That recipe sounds great! Let me know when you post it! Thank you very much!
Great idea,jeff37734! Thanks a lot sir!!!
I find now that if we go to dinner somewhere first thing out of my mouth. Omg this is salty. My husband has followed the low salt with me. We use a lot of spices and we do use the Morton lite salt when it’s a salt taste must. I don’t have any recipes, We just eat a lot of veggies, meat, potatoes BORING salt free life lol
I do a low sodium stir fry tortilla. Brown thin strips of steak or chicken in very little olive oil. Add strips of green, yellow and red pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, onions or any veggies of choice. Stir and cook until done. Portion into a huge romaine or leaf lettuce of your choice and add fresh diced tomatoes and 2 tbsps lite sour cream. Roll it all up like you would a tortilla. About 14mgs of sodium per serving. If you use a low sodium flour tortilla instead of the big lettuce leaf it's a lot more sodium...175 to 320mgs per tortilla depending on the size and kind of tortilla you buy. There's no soy sauce or teriyaki so you sacrifice a little flavor but they're good!
Hi Jeff! I use seasoning (found at Asian cash and carrys) which usually contain a small amount of salt in then, to season my food, so I don’t add any extra salt. Or if any of the ingredients (chorizo) in my recipe already contains salt then I don’t add any. So far I don’t miss the extra salt. Please bear in mind (it might not be all) that sugar has the same effect, so low sugar recipes would be nice too, as it’s harder to give up sugar than it is salt. My meals are quite simple (some) just grilled meat,chicken or fish and veg, but the flavours are enhanced by the seasoning.