As you plan your dinner menu for Passover, Easter or the first party of spring, do you find yourself frustrated by the lack of nutrition in so many of your family’s traditional recipes? You can follow the Guiding Stars to find more healthful substitutions for many ingredients. Replacing part of your all-purpose flour with white whole wheat flour, for example, is one way to boost the nutrition in your baked treats. Better yet, why not start a new tradition with a delicious recipe that earns Guiding Stars? We took a look at this Coconut Chicken Satay from 100 Days of Real Food and substituted unsweetened, lite coconut milk in place of regular coconut milk to reduce the amount of saturated fat. It now earns 1 star and will have your guests asking for the recipe.
About Erin Dow
Guiding Stars Expert Chef
Guiding Stars Expert Chef Erin Dow balances three food worlds. As a mother of three young children, she’s fighting the battle every parent faces: how to keep her kids interested in the foods that keep them healthy. As the chef and owner of her catering company Eatswell Farm, she utilizes original recipes and techniques--focused on enhancing the enjoyment of locally-sourced ingredients--to best interpret the client’s vision. And as Consulting Executive Chef for Falmouth-based Professional Catering Services, a business specializing in production and backstage catering for concerts, she develops and executes menus that accommodate the strict nutritional requirements of the music industry elite. Erin and her family raise their own chicken for meat and eggs, have dabbled in pastured Narragansett turkeys, and have a very weedy but very large and productive garden.

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