Healthy
Cooking Methods
Healthy cooking methods are very flavorful and easier than you think. One way to improve your quality of life is by eating
healthy. But what if the way you are preparing your food is interfering with your efforts to eat healthy.
The misconception is that healthy cooking means eating bland food and spending hours in the kitchen. Contrary to what many believe, it’s quite the opposite.
Sometimes there’s nothing better than your Mom’s good old fried chicken with mash potatoes and gravy. Rest assure there is a way to “have your cake and eat it too”. Indulge yourself with these healthy cooking techniques and taste all the benefits of eating healthy. Find your favorite Cookbooks and see how easy it is to modify your Grandma's recipes.
Healthy Cooking Methods
- For cooking healthy meals bake, broil, poach, braise or grill your favorite meats, chicken or fish rather than frying.
- Remove any excess fat from meats and when preparing chicken remove the skin.
- Use nonfat cooking spray to coat pans instead of butter.
- Use healthy cooking oil such as olive or canola oil.
- Instead of stick margarine or butter use trams fat free tub margarine.
- Use fresh herbs and spices to add color, flavor as well as aroma. Chili pepper and cayenne pepper will boost flavor as well as speeding up your metabolism.
- Instead of whole eggs, use egg whites or egg substitutes.
- Choose skim milk instead of whole milk.
- Use reduced-fat or low-fat cheese, low-fat cottage cheese and low-fat sour cream instead of their regular versions.
- Choose artificial sweeteners or honey in place of table sugar.
- When basting consider using wine, juice or chicken
broth instead of butter. - Instead of using shortening or butter in a recipe use applesauce, pureed prunes,mashed bananas or yogurt. Using these substitutions reduces fat but enhances moisture.
- Use fresh fruits and vegetables whenever possible. This will help assure your “five a day”. Also, raw vegetables are great healthy food snacks.
The importance of eating healthy cannot be taken lightly. When it comes to weight loss or just better health, success can be more readily achieved with healthy cooking methods. Incorporating these tips for healthy cooking into your daily regime will significantly increase your rate of success as well as your health.
