A spoonful of sugar may help a lot Just mix nutritious ingredients in with foods everyone likes. The California dietitian's premise is that you can make familiar foods everyone loves, but sneak in ingredients that will improve the overall nutritional content of the recipe. For example, she mixes pears with apples in a crisp.
Pears have about twice the fiber as apples and are every bit as appealing.
She makes a delicious iron-packed Manhattan clam chowder using canned clams, tomatoes and tomato sauce. The vitamin C in the tomato products makes the iron in the clams more available. She even turns chocolate pudding into a healthful dessert by using calcium-rich evaporated skim milk in place of whole milk. With her ideas in mind, I transformed my favorite shrimp risotto dish from a rich and comforting entree to a rich, comforting and healthful one. The basic recipe calls for Arborio rice, broth, shrimp and lots of cream.