10,000 lowfat recipes

German Kalter Kartoffelsalat: cold potato salad dressed with vinegar, mustard, and dill seed. No mayo, the starchy potato water creates a creamy emulsion.

Vegetarian chili with kidney beans, crushed tomatoes, green pepper, and chili powder simmered for one hour. No meat, no fuss. A big-batch meatless chili that's naturally vegan and full of smoky, tomatoey flavor.

Vegan lentil camp chili made entirely from dry, shelf-stable ingredients. Just add water and simmer for a hearty, spiced trail meal. Lightweight, packable, and no cooler needed.

Polish baked apples in red wine, jablka na winie czerwonym, fills cored apples with jam and bakes them in spiced wine syrup. A classic Polish Christmas dessert served chilled.

Low-calorie sausage and cheese biscuits with turkey sausage, bran, buttermilk, and reduced-fat cheddar. A lighter take on a breakfast classic.

Low-calorie berry bars made with a tangy buttermilk batter topped with fresh or frozen blueberries and raspberries, finished with sugar and lemon zest. No butter needed. Just 48 calories per bar.

Homemade cranberries jelly, not much time, goes well!

It's a fun thing to make your own phyllo pastry, it may requires some patience, but it's well worth the efforts.

Randy Pollak's persimmon salad is a molded gelatin salad with orange Jello, hot grapefruit juice, and strained persimmon pulp. A vintage fruit salad served on lettuce with cottage cheese.

Grilled tandoori chicken kebabs marinated in spiced yogurt with cumin, coriander, and ginger, threaded on skewers with blanched cauliflower and sweet red peppers. Bold Indian flavour, easy grilling.

A traditional Danish curried eel recipe where tender poached eel is draped in a rich curry-onion roux sauce. Simple, old-world Scandinavian cooking with just a handful of ingredients. Serve over steamed rice.

Slow-braised beef eye of round simmered with soy sauce, dry sherry, fresh ginger, and mushrooms until fork-tender. Sliced and served over hot rice with a rich pan gravy.

Beef and sausage chili built on a scratch-made ancho chile sauce, with green chiles, tomato, cumin and Mexican oregano. Rehydrated dried anchos give it deep, smoky flavor you can dial up to taste. No beans.

Old-world chicken soup built from carcasses and a marrow bone, simmered with parsnips, carrots, celery, and served over noodles with fresh parsley. Pure comfort.

Boston brown bread steamed in coffee cans with cornmeal, rye flour, whole wheat, buttermilk, molasses, and raisins. Dense, moist, and slightly sweet with no oven required.

Quelites, a traditional New Mexican spinach and pinto bean side dish with bacon drippings, chili pepper, and hard-boiled egg. A 25-minute Southwestern classic.