In all seasons, there are many enemies for losing weight like seasonal events, seasonal foods, being busy days. You have many opportunities to eat other than three meals a day. Don’t you think you want keep a good figure but want to eat snacks?
So you should take up a low-calorie snack diet. You can also release stress by eating snacks, so you will carry out the diet easily because you can eat low-calorie snacks.
Let’s enjoy low-calorie snacks diet which you don’t have to hesitate to eat.
7 Low-calorie Snacks Recipes for Easy Diet
・Banana muffin (serves 12)
Ingredients:
1cup crushed banana
1/4 cup sour cream
1cup flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup low-calorie sweetener
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 175°. Grease containers for muffin and parchment paper.
- Stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda.
- In another bowl, stir together the bananas, sugar, egg, vanilla extract and pour in sour cream and whisk together.
- Mix 2 and 3. Pour it in the prepared containers properly.
- Place the containers in the oven and bake for about 15 to 20 minutes. Stick a tooth pick in the muffin and the muffin never stick to it, it’s done. To lid the containers and leave them whole night leads to the chewy taste.
・Baked muffin doughnuts (serves 24 )
Ingredients
1cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4cup melted margarine
3/4teaspoon nutmeg
2cups milk
2cups low-calorie sweetener
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 190°. Grease small muffin containers.
- In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, melted margarine and nutmeg. Add the baking powder and flour, and mix them. Whisk in the milk.
- Fill the containers half-full with the mixture.
- Place them in to the oven and bake for about 15-20 minutes until golden brown
*You can sprinkle sugar cinnamon if you like. Sugar doughnuts will be more satisfying.
In a case of sprinkling sugar, melted butter makes their taste better. But be careful not to add too much.
・Yam rice cake coconuts flavor (serves 10)
Ingredients
120g peeled yam
6 tablespoons bean-curd lees
2 tablespoons soy milk or milk
2tablespoons potato starches
1tablespoon low-calorie sweetener
B.50-60 dried raisons
B 1tablespoons red wine (optional)
B.1 teaspoon low-calorie sweetener
B.1tablespoon coconuts
Directions
- Cut the yam into 8 equals parts and warm up them in microwave (about 4minutes). Mix up the A ingredients until smooth.
- Wash lightly dried raisons in warm water. Mix up the B ingredients and warm it for about 1 and half minutes with high heat in microwave.
- Place the B on the A and fold the A and form round shapes. Put 5-6 raisons in a dumpling.
- Sprinkle dumplings with coconuts and warm them for about 2minutes in microwave with high heat.
The dumplings are good for those who do not like sweets but want to have snacks. And they are filling.
・Agar soft sweet bean jelly
Ingredients
1(450g) canned red bean paste
1pack powder agar
Directions
- Pour 400ml water in the powder agar and stir together. Boil it for about 2minuetes.
- Add red beans paste in the agar and mix them well.
- Pour it in containers and cool them in the fridge until congealed.
This is very easy recipe. You can make healthier ones with sugar less homemade red beans paste.
・Pudding without fresh cream (serves 2)
Ingredients
1 egg
15g low-calorie sweetener (it is written sugar in direction)
125 cc milk
A bit of vanilla extract
Directions
- Pour milk in the pan and heat it over low heat
- In a bowl, mix the sugar and egg with a whisk. Not whisking just mix. Add vanilla extract
- Remove the milk from heat before just boiled and stir it in the bowl little by little.
- Scoop the bubbles on the surface. If you have a burner you can use it.
- Pour the mixture in the containers and place them on dishes poured water. Steamed them for about 30 minutes over 160°. Cool them at room temperature.
- After cooling, make caramel sauce. In a small pan, add 1 tab sugar and heat it over low heat stirring with a spoon
- After caramelized, remove the pan from heat. Pour the caramel over the pudding when the caramel is still hot. Cool them in the fridge and it’s finished.
Steaming pudding too much time causes to worsen the texture. So you should be careful not to happen like that while steaming.
・Easy cheese cake (a whole cake)
Ingredients
A.200g cream cheese
A 75g low-calorie sweetener
A 1 egg
A 150g yogurt
A 50g weak flour
B 80g cookies
B 40g butter
Directions
- Preparation: to soften the cream cheese at room temperature. Place the egg in room temperature, melt the butter.
- Crush the cookies and mix them with the butter.
- Fill the container with the 2.
- In a bowl, add the cream cheese and add the sugar 3 separate times
- Add the egg in 4 a few separate times.
- Stir in the yogurt in it. It is still moisture.
- Sift the flour in it and mix them.
- Pour the mixture in the container and bake for about 50 minutes over 170°. Cover it with foil before getting burnt.
- It is done when stick cake with a pin and you can remove it from the cake without sticking to it. Cool it several minutes and remove the cake from the container.
Don’t you want a cake at tea break? You will be satisfied with the cake at the teatime.
・Pancake good for stomach (serves 2)
Ingredients
50g hotcake mix
50g boiled soybeans
40 cc milk
Proper quantity of oil
Directions
- Mush the boiled soybeans. If you enjoy food texture mush it lightly, if you want it smooth, mash it well.
- Add all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them up well.
- Heat greased pan and bake the mixture putting a lid for about 2minutes over low heat
- Flip the cake and bake for 1 minute. If you press the cake with a spatula, the cake will not swell.
- Enjoy the pancakes with maple syrup or honey.
The cake contains much dietary fiber so you can expect regular motion. Soybeans have an effect on correcting female hormone balance, so this is good for a diet for women.
How was that? You can use sugar instead of low-calorie sweetener. But you should use low-calorie sweetener while having a diet.
Oils of low-calorie sweetener and butter is essential to make taste better, so you should not cut too much of them.
You can eat no matter which western confectionery or Japanese sweets while having a diet, as long as you are careful about ingredients and recipes. Before you eat high calorie snacks and gain back weight, you should take up the low-calorie diet without stress.
Summary
7 Low-calorie Snacks Recipes for Easy Diet
・Banana muffin (serves 12)
・Baked muffin doughnuts (serves 24 )
・Yam rice cake coconuts flavor (serves 10)
・Agar soft sweet bean jelly
・Pudding without fresh cream (serves 2)
・Easy cheese cake (a whole cake)
・Pancake good for stomach (serves 2)