Gout friendly recipes

Nicki

Poor old hubbie is suffering from recurrent gout and has a bad attack at the moment. I am struggling to think of what to make for tea which won't exacerbate it.

I need to avoid:
meat, poultry and fish
beans, lentils, spinach and asparagus
quorn and yeast extracts
sugar

and it should ideally be low fat.

Anyone got any suggestions please? Not much in my cupboards at the moment but Tesco is just across the road.

RAS

So he is allowed carbohydrates?

Eggs?

Cheese and milk?

Nicki

RAS wrote: »

So he is allowed carbohydrates?

Eggs?

Cheese and milk?

Yes wholegrain carbs are better but either is ok.
yes to eggs
yes to small amounts of cheese and yes to milk

lostinrates

Pasta puttanesca? Drop the anchovies if you think they will be a risk and use whole grain pasta. . Quick, easy and I think ok for your list?

RAS

When you say yeast extracts and quorn, does that include things other fungi and fermented goods, like wine? What about soy sauce, vinegar etc?

So looks like these are OK?

Pasta with "white sauce" bases. Cheese, mushroom if OK, nutmeg (layer with tomato based sauce alla lasgne).

Pasta with other sauces (tomato etc but not containing meat)

Spanish omelette (keep the potato skins on)

Souffles?

Rice, bulgar, couscous but struggling with the vegan sauce flavours at the mo. Check out a basic tagine, egg curry, and those stewed or roasted veggie dishes that include either eggs poached in the veggie or a savoury custard topping.

Quiches with whole meal flour?

Nicki

Just been doing a bit more research! Turns out white flour is better than wholegrain so white pastas are better.

Mushrooms are bad. Wine is ok in moderation. Soy sauce is not great and I imagine on the same basis also vinegar.

tomatoes apparently lower uric acid levels so although in the long term they are a good idea in the short term they will make things worse, so best avoided.

RAS

Suggests that blue cheese is also off the list?

The thing I struggle with is finding anything in this that provides the unami flavours http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/apr/09/umami-fifth-taste

Potato, cheese bake with eggs, served with peas?

lostinrates

A common meal for the culinarily pressed in Italy is broccoli pasta...the broccoli is dropped in the pasta pot near the end to boil, though I actually steam mine.

Then just served with a little oil and Parmesan......

Would that be too plain for him? Its nicer than it sounds! If the fat thing is less crucial some finely cubed Mozzerella can be stirred through too.....

Or a risotto with veg he can eat? Carb based, filling, and self saucing with a veg stock and no wine.....

Nicki

I think blue cheese is all right. Haven't been able to find anything to say otherwise.

Its the beans and lentils I think are the killer. Otherwise it would be relatively easy just to go veggie for a while. But once you have to exclude those along with tomatoes, cauliflower and mushrooms, it gets a lot harder. Or at least for my stretched imagination it does

I foresee a long period of baked potatoes with cheese, mac cheese and omelettes stretching ahead of him. Which as we both like our food is a bit dull...

Anne_Marie_2

Thought that your hubby would have been put in touch with a dietician, who should suggest or supply booklets with recipes. If that hasn't been done, suggest that he gets along to the doc/health centre and request an appointment to deal with his diet requirements.

Personally, I don't feel that I have the knowledge to supply recipes for anyone with this condition. However, here's an article you can have a look at
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20448271,00.html

Sure you will find more stuff if you do a search on the internet.

Nicki

lostinrates wrote: »

If the fat thing is less crucial some finely cubed Mozzerella can be stirred through too.....

The fat thing is only because losing weight will also help with the condition, and as he can't opt for a low carb diet (because the proteins you would replace it with will all make the gout worse) it will have to then be a low cal/lower fat route. I cant see anything which says that dietary fat in and of itself will make gout worse