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[H215]Healthy Way To Cook
by Bhawanpreet Singh, Bha
Cooking is the act of making food for eating, and it consists of a wide range of techniques and methods; mish mashing of different ingredients which adds flavor or digestibility to the food and some other tools as well. For more detail go to: www.cat-head-biscuit.com.Or else it can be said that cooking is the process of blending of ingredients, measuring and selecting of ingredients in order to get the desired results. Cooking can add taste to any and almost every type of eatable food items. There are some of the best ways that are mainly used to cook food which are roasting, frying, baking, boiling, steaming, micro waving and many more at the same time preserving all the nutrients of the food like proteins, fat, liquids, and carbohydrates.

However, healthy cooking can be really a fun filled activity but can be annoying too for the working people but there is nothing to panic about, as there are some easy, fast and simple ways to cook food while maintaining all the health benefits simultaneously. In any case it should be kept in mind the type of food you are cooking and eating, as you can be surprised from the fact that eating more than a normal portion at meal intervals, could actually cause unwanted weight gain and other related health problems.

To divest this problem try to cut down the amount of food you eat, regardless of the type of food it is to minimize the intake of unwanted fats and calories. For more detail go to: www.july4-recipes.com. However, while cooking the food always remember the way you cook the food, whether you grill it or fry it make sure which kind of fats and oils you use to cook. If possible always try to avoid use of oils and high calorie fats for cooking as these are certainly unhealthy ingredients and may give room to some unnecessary problems. Especially, if you are cooking meat, always try to roast or grill it rather than frying, and if you have to fry it, than cook it with a very small quantity of sunflower oil, or some other low calorie oils which are available in the market.

Alternatively, in place of oil a little bit of low fat margarine can be used which is a healthy option for cooking. Apart the types of oils you use to cook food, make sure the vegetables and the other ingredients should be fresh and are not preserved from long as it may spoil the taste and the freshness of the food plus can be sometimes really very harmful and difficult to digest.

In addition to the dos and don'ts of cooking, and if cooking alone bores you, other family members as well can partake in cooking. As cooking not always involve using stove or oven, preparing sauces, sandwiches, and salads are also a part of cooking and making simple healthy snacks are a great way to cook with kids. And kids will really enjoy eating these items not just because of their taste because they too had a hand in cooking it. On the other hand cooking can teach all about the ingredients, the proper nutrition, and eating in moderate quantity.

Successful cooking with Microwave oven need to understand the followings points:

Moist, not fat - Choose recipes that are cooked by moisture - steaming, boiling, braising, blanching. For more details www.thanks-giving-recipes.com .Foods that require fat and oil for a change of flavor are not as successful, deep-frying is impossible at all.Browning food - Foods do not brown readily in the microwave oven. You may find the following tips on browning useful.

1. Fat absorbs heat and if you remove foil covering fatty portions of a meat, these will crisp and brown lightly.

2. Baste with oil to give a better crisp to roast. Oil increase the temperature of the meat surface.

3. A browning dish, preheated, will brown food beautifully if you press food down, turning so that all surfaces make contact with the base of the dish.

4. Soy sauce, the ubiquitous flavourer of Chinese recipes, is an excellent browning agent.

Wok aroma - In traditionally stir-fried dishes, sauces are sprinkled round the side of the hot wok. In the microwave oven, we put in the sauce first, giving time for heat to be absorbed and hence release the aroma.

Small - The microwave oven is best therefore for family meals and when entertaining small groups.

Arrange foods - Whether cooking, defrosting or freezing, food should be arranged to take advantage of the principles of microwave cooking. Remember the followings:

1. Microwave activity is greater at the edges, less at the centre. Pieces of food should be placed at the edge of any container. If they are equal size, thicker portions should be placed at the edge or at corners of square containers where they will cook more quickly than the thinner portions in the centre. For more details www.300-chicken-recipe.com.Cook large quantities of food evenly by stopping the cooking cycle halfway, and stirring so that food at edges exchange places with food in the centre.

2. Food cooks quicker in hot spots, so place the container or larger portions of meat in this place.

3. Single layer of food cook evenly. A large lump cooks at the edge first. So freeze in single layers and do not overlap food if you can help it.

4. Raise large portions of roast on a rack for more even distribution of heat. When meat I heated, fat melts to the bottom, and this area will absorb more heat.

Cover - Covering the food will prevent drying of some dishes. The most common cover is cling or plastic wrap. As pressure is build up within a completely enclosed container, however, it is necessary to cover loosely, or leave a gap through which steam my escape.

Shielding food - These part must be shielded with foil to prevent overcooking and drying out. Ensure that foil does not touch the sides of the oven.

Food skin - Food that has a skin or membrane such as liver, tomato and fish, if they are to be left whole, should be pierce or slit, to leave a steam vent.
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