What do I search for when looking for unsweetened recipes?
This has frustrated me immensely. I want to find recipes for things like savory granola that contain neither added sugar nor any kind of sweetener like rice syrup. However, recipes on the internet seem to include some kind of sweetener despite saying they are sugar free. Presumably they mean no added refined sugar, but sugar is sugar no matter where it comes from and I'm afraid I just don't like it. (No health reasons, I just really want to not eat sweet things sometimes).
So what do I search for? "Sugar free" gives me a bunch of artificial sweeteners recipes and "no sugar" leads me to recipes with syrups or dates or something that contains a lot of sugar anyway.
Best Answer
As pointed out in the comments, the correct search term is "savory." Keep in mind, however, that while chefs often create savory versions of typically sweetened items, those versions usually have sugar or other sweeteners in them. In granola, for example, we understand it generally as a sweet breakfast or snack item. While the sweetness in the savory version is dramatically reduced, it is that remaining sweetness that allows us to interpret it as granola. Otherwise, it would just be toasted grains, which, maybe in the end, is what you want.
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Can you bake without sugar?
Sugar is a very common ingredient in almost all baking recipes and it may even be hard to imagine baking without sugar. However, it definitely is possible to avoid using sugar, finding alternative ways to sweeten a recipe or to skip the sweetness completely!What are sugar free sweets?
Sugar-free candies use artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes to create a sweet taste while foregoing real sugar....Some sugar substitutes you'll see on labels are:- Saccharin.
- Aspartame.
- Sucralose.
- Sugar alcohols such as erythritol, xylitol, maltitol, lactitol, and sorbitol.
What can I bake with instead of sugar?
6 Sweet Sugar Substitutes for Baking- Coconut sugar. Play video. ...
- Agave nectar or agave syrup. Play video. ...
- Fruit concentrates. Unlike fruit juice, which has added sugar, fruit concentrate is basically fruit with the water removed. ...
- Maple syrup. A natural substitute for sugar, maple syrup is derived from boiled tree sap. ...
- Molasses.
What is a sugar free diet?
A no sugar diet, also known as a sugar-free diet, restricts added sugar. This restriction includes obvious sugary foods like candy and soda but added sugar can also be found hiding in savory foods such as pasta sauce.Searching for Recipes
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