Healthy Diet Recipes
It is not easy to eat healthy now days, especially if you eat out most of the time. When eating out, we can’t be too picky, we cannot choose the ingredient used, the way they cook it and, the “artificial taste” they put. It becomes worst when we are rushing, we want to settle our meal fast therefore we go for fast food, or instant noodle.
No doubt this is a trend and is hard to avoid. We are living in a fast moving society where we seldom have chance for proper meal. But we cannot afford to have unhealthy meals 7 days a week! If not, we are going to experience nutrition imbalanced or to have health disease . Hence, it is vital to try to cook your own healthy meal, at least 3 days a week.
Many people think that to make their own meal is a tough task, it’s troublesome and it’s just not worth their time. In fact, it is pretty simple to enjoy healthy eating. Just keep in mind these secret code: less is better than more and, the simpler the better!
Less Oil – no doubt putting enough oil in cooking will give a better taste to the dish and make the dish a little bit “smoother”, but try to think about the effects it will bring to your health. By taking too much oil, you may gain weight, increase your cholesterol level, experience skin problem, loss hair, feeling tired easily, and the list goes on and on.
Less Sugar – well, everyone loves sweet stuff, especially children. We trend to add a lot of sugar in our cooking so that our food will be tasty and loved by everyone. Of course that’s result every chef would love to have, but since you are cooking for your family, don’t you think beside the taste, you should concern about the nutrition too?
Less Salt – there’s a say that sound like this: if the ingredients used are fresh enough, no salt is needed. Salt is used to bring out the freshness and sweetness of a meal, but if you use fresh ingredients, like fresh meat(not the frozen one), the amount of salt you needed will be reduced to minimum. Therefore go buy fresh cooking ingredients in the fresh market and try not to stock them in your fridge. By doing so, you are not only can reduce the salt intake but also can skip the usage of the artificial taste like stock cube, ajinomoto.
Simpler The Better – it is always good to eat food which is not “over done” where it’s original taste is kept. Most of the time, steaming is the best way to cook the fresh ingredients. Try to avoid deep frying, which is not only not good to our health but also will destroy most of the nutrition of the food. When cooking vegetable, make sure to cook it as fast as possible. This is to avoid the vitamins lost due to over cook.
In Southeast Asia, there are many healthy cooking which are delicious and easy to cook. However, there are also many unhealthy dishes too. Here is the list of healthy diet recipes you may want to try at your home:
Healthy Diet Recipes By seasiafood.com
Hairy Gourd With Tofu
Fried Bean Sprouts With Salted Fish
