Who said you had to deprive yourself or prepare tasteless recipes to watch your line? Discover in pictures 6 gourmet meals with less than 600 calories designed by an expert in healthy and gourmet cooking.
It is not because you pay attention to your line that you are obliged to deprive yourself at the table! You are followers of burger ? You gladly fall for a crepe or a cheese toast ? Believe it or not, but you can still treat yourself without making your scales scream.
Most of nutritionists will tell you: to lose weight or to keep the line, the diets are counterproductive ! The best way to take care of yourself is simply tobalance your diet and get professional help if you don’t know how. This will allow you to sustain your efforts over the long term. Most diets synonymous with deprivation are difficult to sustain! This explains why many take back all the pounds lost in the long term.
Have fun cooking is also part of the balanced diet.
Author of a new book, My gourmet recipes with less than 600 kcal (ed. Marabout), Valentine, the famous Valinfood (valin_food on Instagram), shares 80 recipes to treat yourself without feeling guilty.
At 23, this passionate about nutrition and cooking is now a source of inspiration for healthy and gourmet cuisine, with almost a million cumulative subscribers.
Inspired by Mediterranean cuisine every day
” I grew up in a family passionate about mediterranean cuisine (Moroccan, Spanish and Portuguese) with whom I got into the habit of cooking a wide variety of dishes. This passion was transmitted to me by my grandmothers, my mother and my father who is a pizza maker. It’s this kitchen that inspires me every day “, shares Valentine.
Convinced that cooking is an integral part of our well-being, Valentine began sharing her recipes on the web for the first time in May 2021. ” I remember a subscriber’s comment on my first Tatin tartlet recipe saying that this video was going to change my life. He was right “, shares the influencer in her book.
If Valentine was keen to share recipes that were both gourmet and light, it’s because she too went through a period in which she sought to lose weight.
” During my weight loss, I always had trouble finding tasty recipes that met my expectations, so naturally, I decided to make them myself and make a complete book. “.
Top Santé shares with you a insight in slideshow.
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Fish burger with cheddar: 600 kcal
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1. Finely chop the red onion into strips and chop the lettuce leaves.
2. Prepare the yellow onion confit: heat the olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add the thinly sliced yellow onion and cook over low heat for 20 minutes, until the slices are tender and golden.
3. Prepare the fish: mix the panko breadcrumbs, salt and pepper in a bowl. Beat the egg in another bowl. In a third bowl, put the flour. Dip the saithe fillet in the flour, then in the beaten egg and finally in the panko breadcrumbs. Place the fillet on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for about 15 minutes at 200°C, until golden brown.
4. Make the sauce: in a bowl, mix the cottage cheese, lemon juice, chopped gherkins and capers, garlic powder, chopped chives, salt and pepper.
5. Cut the burger bun in half and place it on a baking sheet. Add the slice of cheddar on one side and bake for 3 minutes in grill mode.
6. Assemble your burgers by adding a little sauce, onion confit, fried onion, breaded fish fillet, lettuce leaves and red onion strips to the melted cheddar. Add the rest of the sauce to the other slice of bread and cover.
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Tajine keftas with eggs: 453 kcal / pers.
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1. In a salad bowl, mix the minced meat, the 1⁄2 chopped onion, the minced garlic clove, the olive oil, the spices, salt,
pepper and chopped coriander. Mix well and form balls. Pre-cook the meatballs for 3 minutes in a tagine dish or deep frying pan and set aside.
2. In the same dish, keep the cooking juice from the meatballs and sauté in 1 tbsp. coffee olive oil the minced onion, eggplant and tomato in pieces as well as the minced garlic for about 4 minutes.
3. Add the tomato coulis, tomato puree, spices, chopped coriander and simmer over low heat
for about 20 minutes.
4. Arrange the meatballs evenly on top and add about 15 cl of water. Cover and cook the keftas for about 10 minutes, watching to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the dish.
5. When the meat is done cooking, crack the eggs on top, cover and cook for 3 minutes. Sprinkle with cilantro and enjoy!