Holidays are the time of the year when people want to spend time with their families and friends by arranging family dinner and family gatherings. People make delicious dishes that are most cooked with butter, vegetable oils or fats. Why don't we try making our family dinner with premium quality olive oil that is not only tasty but also healthy for our body? Olive oil is the key ingredient that will make your family meal healthy and nutritious. 

If you want to make classic and traditional and low fat holiday dishes, try cooking with premium quality extra virgin olive oil. It will add richness and depth to your dishes. Your guests would love to eat the dinner and will ask about your special ingredient that you have used for cooking. This article will guide you about healthy and nutritious holiday meals that you can make with olive oil.

Healthy olive oil replacements for holiday recipes:

When you want to cook traditional and classical dishes, you mostly use butter or fats. These fats and butter are very dangerous to your body. You can replace them with our high quality extra virgin olive oil, and you don't need to compromise on the taste and texture of the food as well. In this way, you can easily make healthy and delicious traditional holiday dishes for yourselves and for your family and friends as well. Some olive oil replacements are:

• Baking:

If you want to bake something like turkey, ham, or cake for dessert, You can use extra virgin olive oil instead of butter or fats. Actually, olive oil gives a soft and smooth texture to your dish and adds extra flavor to it as well. If you don't want to highlight the taste of olive oil, you can use a mild or light flavored olive oil for baking.

• Mashed potatoes:

Mashed potatoes are a very famous and most prepared side dish in holiday dinner. But people make it with butter or low quality fats that increase your cholesterol level and make the dish heavy. Instead of butter, using olive oil will give your potatoes extra smoothness and fitness that you can feel while eating. Olive oil will add a creamy and buttery texture to your potatoes without using any butter or vegetable oil. 

• Roasted vegetables:

Though, roasted vegetables are a side dish that people serve to their guests with turkey or ham, but this dish requires oil to make. The quantity of oil that is used for roasting the vegetable is a bit high, so using olive oil is a better option than butter or other vegetable oil.

Olive oil will add a salty and tangy flavor to your vegetables. It will also help to cook your vegetables evenly with a nice softness and sweetness.

• Sauce and dip:

People love to have some kind of sauce or dip with the main dish on their holiday dinner. You can make cranberry sauce, white sauce, creamy sauce or milk based sauce etc. While making sauce, use olive oil instead of some butter or preserved oil to enhance the flavor of your sauce. 

Nutritious holiday meals with olive oil:

Though holidays give you a relaxing time, and you can spend time according to your will, avoid eating unhealthy and buttery food. You should eat and make those dishes which are healthy and nutritious so that your body muscles and heart muscles remain healthy and fit as well. Some ideas for nutritious holiday meals are:

• Stuffed vegetables:

Instead of making meat stuffed dishes, you should try stuffed vegetables on this holiday to keep your body in shape. You can stuff different vegetables like bell pepper with other chopped vegetables like onion, carrots, and radish and olive oil and herbs like thyme, rosemary and garlic etc. This dish is not only healthy but also nutritious because vegetables provide minerals and vitamins to your body.

• Salmon with herbs and olive oil:

You can also make salmon by seasoning it with herbs, olive oil and spices. After that, you can either bake it for 5–10 minutes in the oven or deep-fry it in the olive oil for 5–10 minutes to have a nice, soft and crispy salmon for your dinner. Salmon contain omega-3, mercury and good fats that are very beneficial for your heart muscles.

• Olive oil roasted turkey:

Turkey is one of the most famous and popular dishes on the holiday dinner menu. You can either bake it or deep-fry it in the olive oil. Most people use butter or vegetable oil to cook turkey but using olive oil for grilling or deep-frying turkey is the best because its taste is enhanced. Olive oil will make your turkey soft inside and crispy outside. You can roast sit after seasoning it with herbs, spices and olive oil mixture to have a nice texture.

• Vegetable omelette:

Omelette is a very healthy and nutritious meal that you can serve to your family and friends on holiday dinner. Mix eggs, carrots, tomatoes, spinach, onions and cheese in a bowl and then cook it with olive oil in the pan. It is such a nutritious and light dish that will provide many vitamins and minerals to your body.

Low fat holiday meals with olive oil:

If you want to make low fat meals for the holiday, you should use our premium quality extra virgin olive oil for cooking. It contains various healthy and inflammation reducing substances that are very beneficial to our body. Some ideas for low fat holiday meals are;

• Sweet potato fries:

Sweet potato fries are a very good and healthy option for a holiday meal. People always fry the fries with a lot of vegetable oil, that makes your fries loaded with oil. You should try baking your sweet potatoes with a low quantity of olive oil, salt and pepper until your sweet potatoes become nice and crispy. Baking the sweet potatoes is a healthy replacement of deep-fried potatoes that you can serve on your dinner tables.

• Fried vegetables:

Fries vegetables are a very quick, easy and healthy option to add in your holiday meal. You can use vegetables of different colors to beautify your dish. You can cut carrots, spinach, broccoli and bell peppers etc. and then fry them in olive oil. Olive oil will not only give a shine to vegetables but also enhance their taste.

• Beans soup:

Beans soup is a nice and warm addition to your dinner menu on this holiday. You can serve it to your guests as an appetizer or snack before dinner. Use beans with other vegetables and cook them first, then by using spices and olive oil you can make bean soup easily. It is healthy and nutritious for everyone. 

Light and healthy holiday meals:

If you aim for cooking something light and healthy for this holiday meal, you should use fresh ingredients along with olive oil. Fresh ingredients and olive oil will help to maintain your body and keep your meal light. Some tips for light holiday meal are:

• Portion control:

Even if your dishes are healthy and nutritious, you should have a check and balance on your diet. Avoid making a pile of food on your plate that you could not finish easily. You should try every dish, but in a small quantity so that you don't overeat anything.

• Use fresh herbs and spices:

You should use freshly chopped and grounded spices instead of older ones. Because older spices need to be added more in the food, that changes the taste of your food. Olive oil can also be used because it goes well with herbs and spices and enhances the taste of your dish.

Use our high quality extra virgin olive oil this year to make your dishes shine like a star. Our premium quality extra virgin cooking oil is the perfect element to enhance the taste of your dishes because it is full of healthy substances along with minerals and vitamins. You can use our olive oil either for baking or cooking or deep-frying because it will not burn your food. So what are you waiting for? Treat your family and friends with light, healthy and nutritious meals this holiday by using our extra virgin olive oil.