10,000 low sodium recipes

Homemade fortune cookies cooked on a griddle, folded around a hand-written paper fortune, and cooled in muffin tins until crisp. A fun kids' project and a charming party favor for Chinese New Year.

A lighter banana cake topped with cinnamon-sugar apple slices, made moist with mashed banana, yogurt, and honey instead of heaps of butter. The go-to recipe for using up your fall apple harvest.

Instead of cupcakes, try these fluffy, light and delicious friands that are made with egg whites, almond meal and strawberries.

Grasshopper pie with a chocolate wafer crust, mint-chocolate liqueur custard set with gelatin, and grated chocolate garnish. The retro 1950s dinner-party showstopper.

Classic brown lentil dhal simmered with turmeric, topped with ghee-fried onions and garam masala for authentic Indian flavor in under an hour.

Smoky roasted eggplant mashed with fresh tomato, garlic, and a splash of red wine vinegar. This Odessa-style eggplant caviar is a rustic Russian appetizer that's just as good spread on pita as it is on dark rye bread.

Turkish eggplant pilaf cooked in olive oil with pine nuts, currants, cinnamon, allspice, tomatoes, and a full cup of fresh dill. A traditional zeytinyagli dish served cold as a vegetarian main or mezze.

A basic, but delectable cake made with pecans, coconut and cream cheese.

Christmas fruitcake cookies made with whole wheat flour, dried apricots, dates, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices. All the flavor of fruitcake in a quick drop cookie.

Bright avocado and orange salad tossed with toasted walnuts, crisp diced turnip, and a honey-mint walnut oil dressing. A fresh, crunchy salad with bold contrasts in every forkful. Ready in 20 minutes.

Old-fashioned chocolate butterscotch fudge cooked to soft ball stage with sweetened condensed milk, crunchy walnuts, and a toffee-like richness you won't find in shortcut recipes.

Two-layer diabetic-friendly brownies with an unsweetened coconut bottom and a chocolate top, made with sugar substitute. Low-fat, mailable, and perfectly portioned into 32 small bars from one 8-inch pan.

Chicken breasts stuffed with an orzo, anchovy, basil, and garlic filling, wrapped in their own skin and baked in Marsala and balsamic. A refined Italian dinner for adventurous home cooks.

Five cup salad with sour cream, coconut, mini marshmallows, mandarin oranges, and crushed pineapple. A no-cook retro fruit salad that chills overnight and feeds a crowd.

Buttery shortbread crust topped with a fluffy almond paste filling, folded egg whites, lemon juice, and flaked coconut. A Dutch bakery classic that yields 50 bars from one pan.

A light and fluffy cappuccino mousse filling in a chocolate pie crust.