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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Recommended healthy meal



I would recommend this as the healthiest meal because of the imgredients used and the cooking method. Firstly in this meal, there are 5 main parts. Firstly, are the vegetables. There are two types to it. Firstly is the beetroot fry. Though it is the beetroot fry, it is not exactly fried. It is made by first using a little bit of oil and the steamed beetroots cut into pieces to cook it. Adding a bit of chilling powder and quarter a onion sliced and cooking them all together would complete it. This is one healthy method of cooking vegetables as it requires minimal oil. Next lady's finger fry. This is cooked exactly the same way as the beetroot fry with the lady's fingers cut into pieces. Once again, minimal oil is used. Next are the three types of rice. While the rice has to be cooked before you add it, it is the extra ingredient that is added that varies the type of rice. First is the sambar rice, which is made with a kind of gravy like sambar. This is not the Malay traditional sambar. This is done mainly with the ingredient dhaal which is extremely good fro health due to it's composition of high protein. First you cook the dhaal and add water to it, add 'yellow' powder (adds flavor and colour) and chilling powder to spice it up. Add a few spices, cut-tomatoes and vegetable drum sticks. Then after letting it boil, till bubbles of aroma arise, we are done. This is also a extremely good cooking method as it does not involve any oil or other forms of ingredients that would be harmful to health generally. Next is the rasam rice. This is also done while cooking the rice, the rasam soup is done differently. This is very simple as basically it includes just adding spices, tomatoes, chilling powder and 'yellow' powder to bolt water and we are done. This is also an extremely healthy cooking method as it involves no oil and the slices help in digestion. Next finally, is the curd rice whch is also done the same way as the other two, while cooking the rice, the curd will be done. The curd is very simple as it basically is like making yoghurt. Just leave the warm milk to harden overnight and it would harden slightly and then place it in the fridge to cool it to a lower temperature. Since plain curd with rice would taste sour, add salt to it before mixing with the rice. The vegetables are the sauce dish while the rice is the main course. Thus I would say that this meal is the healthiest meal I have eaten so far. One way to improve it is by replacing the normal rice with brown rice.

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