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Here’s the “Enlightened Crème Fraîche”…  Martha’s Enlightened Crème Fraîche And here they are side by side…  Enlightened & Classic Crème Fraîche While the “enlightened” version isn’t nearly as rich, it is still delicious and with 40% fewer calories and fat than the classic. I enjoyed it this morning on top of a bowl of strawberries and stirred into a little egg salad…  Strawberries with Crème Fraîche & Egg Salad on Toast Other Great Ways to Use Crème Fraîche (Enlightened or Otherwise):
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{The Recipe Redux} Martha’s Enlightened Creme Fraiche
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A lighter creme fraiche made with half heavy cream and half buttermilk
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Nutritional Estimates Per Serving (2 tablespoons): 32 calories, 2.9 g fat, 0.9 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 0.7 g protein and 1 WW PointsPlus (As compared to regular creme fraiche which has 53 calories, 5.6 g fat, 0.5 g carbs, 0 g fiber, 0.4 g protein and 2 PointsPlus)
Future fermentation projects I want to try: Rustic No-Knead Sourdough Bread (The Stone Soup – My arrived from King Arthur Flour today!) Yogurt in the Slow Cooker (A Year of Slow Cooking) or I may just breakdown and buy this Yogurt Maker If you want to learn more about fermented foods here’s a great article called Preserving the Plenty: The Beauty of Fermented Foods from Saveur. Sources:
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The Enlightened Crème Fraîche Experiment
This month’s Recipe Redux’s ”Fermented Foods” challenge has left me feeling like a schoolgirl who waited too long to begin her final science project!
Note to self: Making fermented foods takes time so waiting until the last minute is NOT a good idea! The truth is that I didn’t even get around to checking out this month’s topic until a few days ago, which left very few options.
I first thought I’d give sourdough bread a try, then decided making a starter from scratch was way beyond my comfort zone and getting one delivered would take too much time.
That left me with two viable options: yogurt and crème fraîche. Since I’ve tried yogurt in the past with limited success, I opted to go with crème fraîche, a simple recipe that has never failed me. The only thing left was to come up with a way to lighten it up. That’s where Martha Stewart’s Enlightened Crème Fraîche recipe comes to the rescue.
What Is Crème Fraîche Exactly?
Originating in France, crème fraîche is essentially, cultured cream. Made by adding bacteria culture to cream, it’s like sour cream, but richer and less sour. The same process that turns milk into yogurt, lactic acid fermentation, turns cream into crème fraîche. And since its made from cream, of course, it’s a lot higher in fat!
You can use crème fraîche as a substitute for yogurt, sour cream, and even mayonnaise in most recipes. I first learned about it when working for a francophile friend who ran a little restaurant in Phoenix and offered culinary tours to Paris. She even used it to make homemade ice cream!
Super easy to make, all you need to do is add 1 tablespoon of cultured buttermilk to 1 cup of cream and let it sit in a cool room until very thick, up to 24 hours. It will then keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.
How Can You Lighten Up Crème Fraîche?
I had never really thought about making a lighter version of crème fraîche, until a few days ago when this post deadline was looming before me. A quick google search brought me this recipe for Enlightened Crème Fraîche on the Martha Stewart website. I decided to give it a go and since I had plenty of cream and buttermilk, make a batch of each…
Making Martha’s Enlightened Lighter Crème Fraîche