Nathalie’s Healthy Cooking Tip!
My Mum, Nathalie, has taught me heaps about healthy cooking, which is why this post is dedicated to her. Every time my Mum cooks, it is healthy and full of flavour. With the right amount of ingredients, you really don’t need all this fat in cooking. My Mum has many great ideas, with regards to healthy cooking, however, I will just touch on a few of the main ones.
Make a habit of removing all the skin of chicken, prior to cooking it, in order to eat more healthy. Skin is full of fat, which may make your food go to your ‘waist’ i.e. don’t let food go to ‘waist.’ (Nathalie’s Cooking Tip)
Whilst cooking or frying food in a pan, it is advisable to only put the smallest amount of oil required to cook your food. Olive oil is one of the best oils to use, if you would be using oil. Better still, steam or boil your vegetables, rather than frying them, unless you’re attentively watching the fat content in your fry pan. (Nathalie’s Cooking Tip)
Whilst baking, use fruits in order to naturally sweeten your bakes. This way, your bakes will still taste great and will also taste sweet from the natural sugars coming out of the fruit. (Nathalie’s Cooking Tip)
Try to use as little butter as possible in your baking and cooking. Try to replace butter with olive oil or another healthy cooking oil. Your bakes and cooking will still taste great, with nowhere near as much saturated fat contained in your cooking. If the recipe really needs butter, try replacing at least 3/4 of the butter for olive oil, then put the rest butter. Alternatively, you can experiment by using olive oil spread, which still has less saturated fat than butter. (Karina’s Cooking Tip)
Whenever you make a pasta dish, try to avoid cooking white sauces, as these are usually high in saturated fat. If you really would like to use a white sauce, then make your own and use low-fat cheese, low-fat milk and olive oil spread instead of butter. (Karina’s Cooking Tip)
There are many more tips I can think of, however, I will leave you with all this for now.
Enjoy!
Karina x
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Another way to reduce butter in cakes/muffins is to replace part of it with the same amount of unsweetened apple sauce. Works great!
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That’s a great tip, Ronit 🙂
Thanks for sharing 🙂
Karina
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My pleasure. Mashed ripe banana also works well. You can find quite a few recipes that use these “tricks” in my blog. 🙂
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That’s a great idea, Tasty Eats.
Karina
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I never make a white sauce anymore. Can’t imagine eating something so fattening!!!
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Hi Christina,
That’s awesome how you eat healthy 🙂
Have a great week,
Karina
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And waist is where most of the food I eat is headed 😦 Love your blog-title and your creative posts 🙂
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Thank you for your kind words, Shafali.
I’m glad you understand all my puns:-) Have a great week!
Karina
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My waist will continue to expand for the time being. I am a slave to frying in olive oil, though I have seen how much some use and am shocked. I’m rather modest in my use.
However! I did not know about olive oil spread and will look for it next I am in the market.
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Hi, loasejohn,
I’m glad you’re more modest in your use of olive oil 🙂
Have a great week!
Karina
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I love your post names, and all your food sounds AMAZING. I totally adding them to my food plan “to try” list.
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Hi, lifeunscriptedvlogs,
Thanks soo much! I’m glad you appreciate my post names and my food.
Your site looks great!
Have an awesome week!
Karina
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I don’t even keep vegetable oil in the house been substituting Apple sauce or coconut oil in baking with great results. Great post !
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Thanks so much, mmrli 🙂
That’s great news that you choose healthy ingredients in your cooking!
Keep up the great work 🙂
Karina
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I love your blog. I am working on eating better & getting fit. But I love me some fried chicken lol
Love this!
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Thanks for your lovely words, Mist 🙂
I’m glad you’re working on eating better.
Have a great week!
Karina
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