Extreme makeover: Creamy pastas and curries

Love creamy dishes? By using these simple techniques, you can still indulge.

Pasta

The secret to creamy pasta without the cream is to use lite evaporated milk.

Apply this to any recipe which uses cream as a sauce – just take care not to heat your sauce too hot as evaporated milk can form a skin if the heat is too fierce.

Try our HFG fettucine carbonara recipe.

How they compare

Traditional fettucine carbonara:
Total kJ per serve = 2,500
Total fat per serve = 42.4g

HFG fettucine carbonara:
Total kJ per serve = 1,585
Total fat per serve = 12.5g

Creamy curries, butter chicken curries

Try these tips:

• For Thai curries, use lite coconut milk or lite evaporated milk – there’s even a coconut flavour.
• For Indian curries that use butter and cream, use half the butter (you’ll still get the flavour) and use lite evaporated milk or lite sour cream instead of cream.
• Try Sophie Gray’s gorgeous Butter chicken soup for the flavour of butter chicken with a fraction of the fat.
• Try HFG Thai chicken curry.
  

How they compare

Traditional Thai curry:
Total kJ per serve = 1445
Total fat per serve = 20.6g (13.7g saturated)

HFG Thai curry:
Total kJ per serve = 1115
Total fat per serve = 9.6g (3.7g saturated)