10 Healthy Foods For Spring Season Party

 
14-Mar-2011 by olivia

Devilled EggsSpring season calls for party time but that doesn’t mean it is a green light for you to have junk food. This guide on 10 Healthy Foods For Spring Season Party will help you have a great menu for picky eaters as well as for grownups.

Devilled Eggs: Be it a breakfast dish or a stellar starter - devilled eggs are the perfect snack for any spring party. Boiled eggs are split into halves and stuffed with a mixture of mustard and mashed egg yolk. This dish is easy to make and devilishly delightful.

Vegetable Pizza: Serve healthy vegetarian pizzas dipped in cream cheese topped with fresh veggies. Blend cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream and ranch dressing mix in a mixing bowl and spread it over the pizza crust along with vegetables. Chill it.

Apple Ladybugs: To much of our surprise, kids love spring season foods, if you add a little creativity into it. Slice red apples from top to bottom and stick raisins on the back of the ‘ladybug’ with pretzel sticks. Dab peanut butter drops on ladybug’s back. For antennas, stick one end of pretzel stick into raisin and other end on top of apple. Repeat the process for both antennas.

Faces with fruits and vegetables: Use your creative skills to make faces from shredded carrots, cherry tomatoes and orange segments on thin wheat crackers. Any doubts about this spring season food? Simply irresistible, isn’t it?

Stir-Fry chicken with noodles: When you want your party food to taste great, but don’t want to spend much time on it too, go for this Chinese-style chicken with noodles. Saute chopped chicken pieces in sesame oil, sherry, onion, garlic, soy sauce and hoisin sauce. Stir in ginger, chicken stock and serve with pasta.

Fig and lemon with chicken: To get Mediterranean tastes into roasted chicken, try this fig and lemon chicken recipe this spring season. Juiced lemon is combined with vinegar, brown sugar and water. Then chicken thighs are arranged on a baking dish over lemon slices and figs before pouring some vinegar-lemon mixture and dried parsley on it. Bake it until it starts to become brown. Remove the ingredients into a platter and pour sauce on chicken, garnish it with fresh parsley leaves and serve hot.

Lemon-Mint Snap Peas & Lima Beans: Go green in spring parties with this lemon-mint vinaigrette recipe with snap peas and lima beans. Get crunchy taste of sugar snap peas with creamy texture of limas for a heavenly spring meal. Vinaigrette tastes equally great with green beans and asparagus.

Broccoli beef: Can anything be more nutritious than this broccoli beef, which is marinated in ginger, garlic and soy sauce and sauted in a rich beef broth. Serve with stir-fried broccoli and tender-crisp mushrooms for an awesome taste.

Banana Blueberry Muffins: Mashed bananas are combined with whole wheat pastry flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and baked in muffin cups until golden brown from top.

Tomato, Spinach and Bean Burritos: This mouthwatering Mexican-style recipe is made with chili-flavored kidney beans, spinach, beans, cumin, tomatoes and warm tortillas. Garnish with sour cream, avocado and salsa for a healthy spring season party food.

With these healthy food ideas, make your spring season party a huge hit. Enjoy!

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