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Light cuisine: low-calorie recipes – [ESSEN UND TRINKEN]
Light cuisine: low-calorie recipes
If you want to enjoy something light and healthy, you don’t have to miss out on taste! This is proven by these main dishes with a maximum of 450 kcal, which taste great and fill you up. There are also easy recipes for desserts, snacks and cakes!
Main dishes under 450 calories
Healthy and delicious: These recipes don’t contain a lot of fat or calories! Plenty of fresh vegetables, lean meat and low-calorie side dishes are prepared in a tasty way.
New recipes from light cuisine
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These new recipes will make you want even more light food! With chicken rolls with pepper vegetables, pork medallions with carrots, meatloaf with fennel radicchio salad, fish casserole and other delicious dishes, you can easily get through the week!
Use the lunch break as a break and provide yourself with energy and nutrients in an easy way. Light dishes such as parsnip and apple raw vegetables or potato and mushroom soup to go are quick to prepare and are suitable for taking to the office.
Light cuisine: recipes for the evening
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Finally finish work and now eat something delicious: With our light and simple recipes you can end the day with pleasure. All dishes have a maximum of 450 kcal per serving.
Light cuisine: soups and stews
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Indonesian vegetable stew, spring stew with smoked pork or boiled beef soup? No matter what soup or stew you’re craving, you’ll find a variety of options here with a maximum of 450 kcal per serving.
These fish recipes are easily filling. Try zander on beetroot, savoy cabbage and salmon casserole or spiced fish with cucumber salad – each portion only has a maximum of 450 kcal.
Light cuisine: pasta
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This is an easy way to enjoy pasta: with light sauces, shrimp, lean meat and lots of delicious vegetables like tomatoes and zucchini. Each pasta dish has less than 450 calories!
Light German cuisine
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Hearty and light at the same time: We have prepared German dishes that are low in calories and tasty. These recipes are simply brilliant and have a maximum of 400 kcal per serving!
Light cuisine: filling salads
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Salads are classics in light cuisine. Here you will find recipes with filling ingredients such as potatoes, lentils and chickpeas. For salads under 350 kcal, you can serve fresh bread with them so that the meal keeps you full for a long time.
Light cuisine: Asian recipes
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Satay skewers, soups, meatballs and shrimp rolls easily manage to taste like the big wide world with a maximum of 400 calories. Cook your way to Asia!
Light cuisine: vegetarian recipes
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Pepper and tomato vegetables with Hungarian egg barley, lentil curry stew, zucchini soup, chickpea curry and stuffed aubergines – crisp, fresh vegetables play the main role here. Each serving has less than 450 calories.
Light cuisine: vegan recipes
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These recipes promise vegan lightness with less than 450 kcal. Try our winter ratatouille, the vegetable pot with pesto or the linguine with pumpkin sauce!
Light cuisine: potatoes
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Luckily, potatoes have found their place in the low-calorie diet! Even fried potatoes or potato gratin can be easy: just make them the main course and serve with leaf salad.
Light cuisine: rice
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These rice dishes leave nothing to be desired. They are easy to digest, have a maximum of 450 kcal per serving and surprise with new ideas and ingredients. Try rice and chicken salad, chicken pan or pollock with zucchini rice!
Light cuisine: spring
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As temperatures rise, so does the appetite for light meals. Here you will find sensational recipes under 400 kcal per serving!
Light cuisine: summer
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So light, so delicious: These summer dishes score points with a maximum of 400 kcal per serving, creativity and lots of taste! For example, try lamb and bean stew, potato tart with harissa dip or sea bream with fennel!
Light cuisine: autumn
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Our light, seasonal dishes from the low-calorie autumn cuisine prove that it’s not just hearty things that taste good in autumn. Each dish has a maximum of 450 kcal per serving.
Light cuisine in winter
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Brussels sprouts and carrot stew, pork tenderloin with chicory and vegetable salad are some of the light winter delicacies with less than 450 calories.
Desserts & cakes
Discover sweet treats: Desserts and cakes remain low in calories if they are prepared with lots of fruit and less fat and sugar.
Light cuisine: desserts
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With lots of fruit, yoghurt and quark you save calories and can enjoy sweet treats such as South Sea salad, mango granita, spiced coffee pears with milk foam and crepes with plums. Each dessert has a maximum of 200 kcal per serving.
Light cuisine: cakes
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These cakes from the light kitchen have a maximum of 250 kcal per piece! Enjoy your coffee break wonderfully with princess petits fours, apple strips, small chocolate muffins or bee stings!
Snacks under 250 calories
If you’re feeling peckish every now and then, there are healthy snacks from the light kitchen. For example, a quick zucchini and tomato salad or shrimp skewers.
Light cuisine: snacks
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Crostini with mozzarella and tomato pesto, hearty crepes with roast beef or zucchini tortilla – these little things from the light kitchen are ideal for in between meals. Each snack has less than 250 calories.
Light cuisine: cooking methods from cooking school
Poaching, steaming and stewing – cooking methods that require little or no fat and are a way to easily prepare vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat and fish. Our cooking school videos show how these cooking methods work.
When steaming, vegetables, meat or fish are cooked particularly gently in steam. Nutrients, color and taste are well preserved.
Fruit, vegetables, fish or meat are cooked in a little liquid or in their own juice.
Interesting facts
The light cuisine is ideal for losing weight – without the typical yo-yo effect of diets. You can find additional information and tips about losing weight from us.
Successfully achieve your desired weight
Lose weight and then keep it off in the long term: Read here how you can successfully change your diet with realistic goals, fresh and varied food, without prohibitions and with small behavioral changes.