Traditional Indian Food For Keeping A Healthy Weight

In these days, people think twice before consuming a food. They are more health conscious then ever before thanks to the spreading awareness about the benefits of being fit all the time. Often traditional Indian food is not favored much by those people who are on a weight loss regime. This is because the way of preparing these dishes is such that it involves either deep frying or more use of ghee [clarified butter].

However, the fact is that Indian food UK can be prepared in lot many ways. There are certain ways of cooking the food to ensure that the ghee is used in lesser amount and there is no dry frying of the ingredients in oil. If these aspects are taken care of, then the same dishes can be eaten while keeping their original taste.

If you are on a weight loss regime or want to maintain your existing good weight, then you need to follow some tips to prepare traditional Indian foods. First of all, you should all together avoid those recipes that involve deep frying. Deep frying simply means that the ingredients are allowed to be soaked in oil for more time. You can opt for less amount of oil, which is healthy way of cooking a food. Then, you should fry the ingredients like spices and vegetables in quick manner taking very little time. This way the food will be healthy as you will get the beneficial nutrition through the oil for your health.

If you have to brown the meat in oil, then you should do so by first putting some oil like sunflower or vegetable oil in a good non-stick pan. Do not use much oil and instead spray the surface of the pan with very small amount of the oil. Such a small amount of oil will be enough to brown the meat without soaking much oil.

Coconut or coconut cream and oil should be avoided if you are on a weight loss regime. But many south Indian dishes are incomplete without this oil. However, you can replace the coconut products by plain yoghurt and other flavoring to make the traditional Indian food.

If you are a non-vegetarian, the Tandoori recipes are good way of taking low calories and low carbohydrates. You can put fish, chicken or prawns in a mixture of low fat plain yoghurt, ground cumin, ground coriander, ground turmeric, crushed garlic, root ginger and chilli powder to taste and let the dish be on the burner for at least an hour. You can serve it with mixed salad and lemon squeeze over it.

If you are vegetarian or you do not want to consume much meat due to its high calorie content, then there are lots of recipes that use vegetable and pulses. These recipes are very tasty and you can enjoy them in any amount because this traditional Indian food has lower calorie count.

By: harry0

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