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You want to offer delicious foods and snacks for your family and guests while they watch Super Bowl LII and the fun commercials, but you also want your spread to be healthy. Here are some ideas for lightening up the calories and fat, but keeping the flavor.
1. Chicken Buffalo Dip: Add two 8-ounce packages reduced-fat cream cheese (in chunks), 2 1/2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken (white meat preferred), 2 cups low-fat shredded Cheddar cheese, 1 cup buttermilk, 1/3 cup Frank’s Hot Sauce, 1 tbsp flour, 1 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp cayenne pepper, 1 tsp garlic powder, and 1 tsp onion powder in a crock pot, stirring to combine. Cover and cook on high for 1 1/2 - 2 hours until Cheddar is melted. Stir until smooth. Reduce heat and garnish with 1/3 cup crumbled bleu cheese. Serve with carrot and celery sticks, baguette slices, or pita chips.
2. Sweet Potato Skins: Bake 6 medium sweet potatoes on a baking sheet in a 350 degree oven for 45-50 minutes. Let cool. Split in half (lengthwise) and scoop out flesh, leaving 1/4 inch border. Save flesh for mashed sweet potatoes another time. In a 400 degree oven, arrange potato skins skin-side up on a baking sheet, and brush with 2-3 tbsp olive oil. Bake 20-30 minutes, then cool completely and cut each in half crosswise. Turn pieces over, and sprinkle each with mozzarella cheese (1 cup total) and grated Parmesan cheese (3 tbsp total). Bake 8-10 minutes, top with sliced avocado, and serve.
3. Apple/Brie Quesadillas: Whisk 2 tbsp Dijon mustard and 4 tsp apple cider in a bowl. In a nonstick skillet, heat to medium and add a flour tortilla (10-inch), then 1/3 of the mustard mixture. Add 2 oz. sliced Brie cheese (rinds removed). Once cheese begins to melt, arrange slices from 1/3 of an apple onto the Brie and top with 1 cup arugula. Add 1/4 tsp black pepper. Fold tortilla in half and press down with a spatula. Cook 1-2 minutes, flip, and cook another 1-2 minutes. Cut into wedges. Repeat with 2 more tortillas.
Blue Goose Market
300 S. 2nd Street, St. Charles, IL
630-584-0900