Recipe Makeover on Shine

Creamy clam chowder that packs flavor, not pounds

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Decadent cream-based soups are some of my favorite candidates for EatingWell’s makeover treatment. I love a good challenge and creamy soups are typically loaded with saturated fat and calories precisely because of that quality we love about them: their creaminess. In most cases it’s achieved with (what else?) cream and butter.

But there’s no reason it has to be that way. You can get all the creaminess of a traditional version of a cream-based soup, with a fraction of the fat and calories. Here are some of the tricks that we use to make soups creamy and rich, while keeping them healthy:

Cut the calories out of comfort food

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We love a good challenge in the EatingWell Test Kitchen and finding a way to make comfort food healthy, but still delicious, is the ultimate challenge. We’ve worked our makeover magic on some of America’s favorite comfort foods and here we’re sharing our 10 secrets of healthy cooking so you can make your favorites healthier too.

3 secrets for healthy homemade ice cream

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The heat of summer always inspires me to get out the ice cream maker. Even though I love ice cream, I still want to keep it reasonable and healthy, so at EatingWell we created lower-fat (but still rich-tasting) basic vanilla and chocolate ice cream recipes this year.

Our version has all the richness you’ll need but about 90 fewer calories than store-bought premium ice cream and a whopping 15 grams less total fat and 10 grams less saturated fat per serving.

We also developed some easy recipes for stir-ins like Blueberry-Cinnamon Swirl Ice Cream and Cherry and White Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream.

Even if you don’t have an ice cream maker, use these stir-in ideas as toppings with your favorite store-bought vanilla or chocolate ice cream.

Healthy strawberry shortcake: Find out how to save summer's best dessert from the fat trap

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Strawberry shortcake is one of those iconic desserts—make it from scratch or not at all. If you’re craving strawberry shortcake, you want the real deal: tender biscuits, pillowy whipped cream and ripe, juicy berries.

It need not be complicated…which is why we were impressed with the perfect simplicity of a reader recipe that recently came our way. The results were glorious—the nutritional analysis was anything but.

The original recipe packed:

409 calories
28 grams total fat
18 grams saturated fat

Once we saw the numbers, the saturated fat was our main target for reduction. Here’s how we made it healthy:

4 secrets to picnic-perfect fried chicken

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Although fried chicken is a perfect picnic food, it’s not perfect health-wise. But there’s a solution to making fried chicken healthy without sacrificing flavor: oven frying. Like any fried chicken, our healthier oven-fried chicken tastes as good cold as it does hot, so it’s perfect to pack in a cooler and take along on a picnic. In fact, it smells so great when it’s baking that you may not be able to wait until it’s cold to dig in.

6 expert tips and healthy recipes for the best burgers

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Summer’s here. Father’s Day is upon us and Burger Season is officially in full swing. While EatingWell has dozens of healthy burger recipes, our Spanish Pork Burger is one of my favorite ways to mix up my burger repertoire. On top of fabulous flavor, this burger’s got decent nutrition marks. With just 364 calories, it makes a generous and utterly scrumptious meal that even works for someone on a diet.

EatingWell worked with meat expert and cookbook author Bruce Aidells on keeping burgers healthy and delicious, and he developed this Spanish Pork Burger recipe as well as 5 other amazing burgers. Here are his 6 tips for a better and healthier burger:

Forget Fillet-O-Fish

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Forget Fillet-O-Fish. EatingWell’s decadent Blackened Salmon Sandwich is the perfect fish sandwich. It’s got a spice-crusted seared piece of salmon that’s a little crisp on the outside and slightly blackened, silky and moist inside and super flavorful. Plus it has a creamy rich...

Sloppy Joes Get a Healthy Makeover

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What’s for dinner? In my childhood home, before the days of lean ground turkey in every supermarket meat case, it was ground beef. One of my favorite meals was Sloppy Joes. I still love to eat these saucy sandwiches, and luckily I know that the problem with beef is just its image. Beef actually...

Recipe Makeovers: Cinco de Mayo Party Classics

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Even if you don’t live in a place like California or Texas with a large Mexican population, everyone in the U.S. has a fabulous reason to celebrate Cinco de Mayo—the food. Today, Mexican food has made its way to most corners of the country. Salsa outsells ketchup, you can buy tortillas in the...

Grilled Cheese Goes Gourmet (with 60% less fat!)

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I did a quick Google search for “grilled cheese” and the first recipe I saw called for “2 slices cheese, 2 slices white bread and 2 tablespoons butter.” That’s for one sandwich. A seemingly innocent sandwich like a plain old grilled cheese is apparently not so innocent anymore. A quick...