Valentine’s Day Heart-Healthy Desserts

February 3, 2010 (Foley, AL) –  What’s sweet and red and loved all over? A heart-healthy homemade raspberry sauce drizzled over your favorite low-fat dessert. Celebrate American Heart Month by making your sweetheart a healthy dessert for Valentine’s Day. This month, Health eCooking® recipes on the South Baldwin Regional Medical Center  website show you how to make delicious low-cholesterol desserts that are lower in fat and sodium. Registered dietitians designated these sweet treats as heart-healthy using national health guidelines.

February’s three-minute web cooking video features Chef Mitch Prensky of Supper, one of Philadelphia’s Best Restaurants, making a fat-free raspberry sauce using fresh or frozen raspberries.

For a decadent, heart-healthy dessert, drizzle this beautiful puree atop any recipe featured this month on the South Baldwin Regional Medical Center website.

• Vanilla Pound Cake
• Low-Fat Brownies
• Chocolate Sorbet
• Simple Crepes

Raspberry Sauce Recipe

Heart Healthy • Diabetic • Gluten Free

1 pt fresh raspberries (substitute frozen raspberries and reduce sugar)
2 Tbsp powdered sugar
3 drops lemon juice
1/2 tsp kosher or sea salt

Place raspberries in a bowl. Sift powdered sugar on top. Add lemon juice and sea salt. Pour into a blender to purée. Strain and serve.

Raspberry sauce is very versatile and can be refrigerated for up to one week.

Yield: 12 servings (1 Tbsp per serving)

Nutrition facts (per serving): Calories: 46; Fat: 0g; Saturated Fat: 0g; Cholesterol: 0mg; Sodium: 26mg; Carbohydrates: 11g; Fiber: 3g; Protein: 1g

Find hundreds of recipes at: www.southbaldwinrmc.com. Click on Health eCooking recipes.

Healthcare publisher Baldwin Publishing (www.BaldwinPublishing.com) produces Health eCooking® for South Baldwin Regional Medical Center.  Go to www.southbaldwinrmc.com  to watch Health eCooking videos.

Recipe Copyright © 2010 Baldwin Publishing. Permission to reprint recipe is hereby granted; all other rights reserved.
®Health eCooking is a registered trademark of Baldwin Publishing.