Z2: Starters, Salads & Sauces

This dressing can be served warm over spinach to wilt a salad. It can also be stored cold if you would like cold Asian dressing. You can serve it with any salad.

I made this dressing to mimic what you’d get in a large steakhouse. YUM!

Serve this salsa over a grilled chicken, grilled fish or even your favorite meat. You can also, of course, serve it with chips!

Making dressing is very easy on Plan Z by Zola. Here are some hints and tips that will help you add a little zest to your ZReduction foods.

This rub recipe that can be used on burgers, fish, chicken or any kind of meat.

This stuff tastes amazing on grilled steak, chicken, grilled shrimp. You name it.

From Zola’s blender comes another dressing for Plan Z Reduction!

Be creative. This is a zingy, zippy sauce. Leave out a chili if you want it less spicy. You could even take this sauce and serve it with simple, grilled chicken. Big YUM

This barbecue sauce is most like the tangy sauces you find in a jar at the store. This just doesn’t have the nasty sugar they add to all of the other sauces.

This is a very spicy dressing. I served it over grilled chicken tenders on a big salad with raw veggies. Really flavorful.

"I really wanted to have a cocktail sauce with my shrimp, so I did some exploring. This is an adaptation from Joy of Cooking. "

One of the most difficult things to do for the ZReduction phase of the diet is to come up with sauces that don’t taste sour. Not with this sauce.

This is a super-simple dessert or entrée accompaniment.

Gini did a great job of coming up with a sweet dressing. I can’t wait to try this on a spinach salad.

Mix together – will keep in refrigerator for several weeks!

You can eat this with the shrimp cocktail salad or serve it on greens as a salad dressing. As and oil-free dressing this is quite tasty!

For a change of pace you might like to try a barbecue sauce that has an Asian flair. This one is tangy, with a bit of fire to it. You can make it even hotter by adding more pepper flakes.

This mustard sauce served with grilled Chinese Eggplant is to die for. Big YUM! And so easy!

This recipe was submitted by our VP of Anger Management, Chris. He likes a thicker dressing and tends to add extra mustard, but you can adjust the measurements to get a consistency you like.

This recipe was submitted by Plan Z dieter Karen, who is a huge fan of Charlie Trotter. She found this recipe in Charlie Trotter's first cookbook. Thanks Karen!