I have been put on a low sodium diet. Many of your recipes (and I'm thinking particularly of the Crab Salad with Dill & Mango) sound delicious and healthy but are not low sodium. Do you have any suggestions for altering them to make them low sodium (i.e., in the crab salad recipe, not using the salt, or maybe leaving out the capers)?
There's a number of ways to cut the salt to a lower level and possibly not have too much of an effect on flavor. With most recipes simply leave out the added salt. Each 1/4 tsp. has about 600 mg of sodium, so in this recipe that serves 4 that cuts about 150 mg of sodium from each serving. That alone will get you to the 500 mg range per serving.
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