Healthiest Indian and Mediterranean foods - re cholesterol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

So you know about ALL Indian food?

Yes, I lived in India...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your post seems very strange and biased. But I’ll bite—eat yellow dals and roti or rice

Indian food is so unhealthy but can you give me some recipes.

I didn't take it like that. I took it as - PARTY/RESTAURANT food is so unhealthy but can you give me some healthy cook at home recipes.

Leave the ghee out of every recipe and don't use the Americanized curries.

Veggie heavy recipes.

That said, it won't taste the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

So you know about ALL Indian food?

Yes, I lived in India...

And you had cooks for everything. LOL that you know anything about Indian food.

[Anonymous]

Lots of Indian recipes are healthy. And for diabetes prevention, basmati actually has the lowest glycemic index.

For mediterranean:
hummus and baba ghanouj
lentil soup with lemon
shakshuka
baked falafel or shallow fried in olive oil
fava beans
couscous with roasted vegetables

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

Ghee is one of the healthiest cooking fat.
Don't tell me you are using canola oil ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

Learn to cook Indian food like the regular people in India. Some by necessity (the poor) and others by tradition, medical need or preference of taste cook their cornucopia of Indian foods very healthfully. So many of your recipes may not work. It's not just a matter of substitution or leaving things out. My mom is a master at this. I am not. That's why this post has no recipes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

Spoken by a complete ignoramus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

So you know about ALL Indian food?

Yes, I lived in India...

And you had cooks for everything. LOL that you know anything about Indian food.

Nope - our family had an assistant cook, but we cooked ourselves a lot. Very passionate about cooking and learning how to cook different dishes. All which involved copious amount of ghee.

[Anonymous]

1 in 2 people in India are suffering from diabetes or cardiovascular disease. That's not just genetics, it's what people are eating. You can love Indian food and admit that it isn't healthy.

To the previous PP, there are no recipes. That's why you have to learn from someone. Again, I think recipes can be made healthier, but ghee is not healthy. There is no doctor that would agree that clarified butter is healthy for people with high cholesterol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New question. Why bother with ghee? It’s just clarified butter? And adding it just at the end for taste? Seems a lot of work. Can you just add atbsp of butter at the end?

Ghee has a lot of religious and cultural significance for Indians, particularly Hindus. I don’t know anyone who cooks exclusively in ghee at home, though. We usually add it at the end of cooking, in the form of “tadka”. Or we mix it with hot rice. It tastes richer and nuttier than plain butter. My mom always makes it at home and flavors it with curry leaves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Indian food is not healthy. I love Indian food and cook it often, but if it has ghee (all recipes do!) It's basically like Paula Dean's food.

So you know about ALL Indian food?

Yes, I lived in India...

And you had cooks for everything. LOL that you know anything about Indian food.

Nope - our family had an assistant cook, but we cooked ourselves a lot. Very passionate about cooking and learning how to cook different dishes. All which involved copious amount of ghee.

But that was your choice. I was born and raised in India and even my grandmothers did not use ghee lavishly. We were always conscious of oil and fat while cooking. Don’t presume to speak for over a billion people and myriad sub-cuisines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1 in 2 people in India are suffering from diabetes or cardiovascular disease. That's not just genetics, it's what people are eating. You can love Indian food and admit that it isn't healthy.

To the previous PP, there are no recipes. That's why you have to learn from someone. Again, I think recipes can be made healthier, but ghee is not healthy. There is no doctor that would agree that clarified butter is healthy for people with high cholesterol.

It's not just rich food though that might contribute. A basic vegetarian diet is very healthy. It's the processed snacks and sweets that seem to exist in every household. Also, a move to a very sedentary lifestyle that's built into the culture. You'll find few kids enrolled in sports. And doctors are recognizing that there is something different about the Indian subcontinent (possibly on a mitochondrial level) that make all of thes other issues a perfect storm. But a little deal and some vegetable side dishes won't hurt you if you go easy on the fat.

[Anonymous]

*daal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 in 2 people in India are suffering from diabetes or cardiovascular disease. That's not just genetics, it's what people are eating. You can love Indian food and admit that it isn't healthy.

To the previous PP, there are no recipes. That's why you have to learn from someone. Again, I think recipes can be made healthier, but ghee is not healthy. There is no doctor that would agree that clarified butter is healthy for people with high cholesterol.

It's not just rich food though that might contribute. A basic vegetarian diet is very healthy. It's the processed snacks and sweets that seem to exist in every household. Also, a move to a very sedentary lifestyle that's built into the culture. You'll find few kids enrolled in sports. And doctors are recognizing that there is something different about the Indian subcontinent (possibly on a mitochondrial level) that make all of thes other issues a perfect storm. But a little deal and some vegetable side dishes won't hurt you if you go easy on the fat.

Of course, this is my point exactly. No one is getting it. It can be healthier but there is a PP arguing ghee is healthy. That's part of the issue. You are right working out isn't big in India, but you can still eat and be healthier than what is going on today. A generation ago, I agree, people weren't using as much ghee or eating as many sweets or working super long hours at a desk or the pollution wasn't crazy bad all the time. There is a huge health crisis and it sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your post seems very strange and biased. But I’ll bite—eat yellow dals and roti or rice

Indian food is so unhealthy but can you give me some recipes.

This is a weird generalization. Yes, Indian food at restaurants -- just like virtually ALL food you eat at restaurants -- is unhealthy, because they're selling you things that taste really good (and thus have a lot of salt, fat, and sugar in it).

Make your Indian food with no sugar, little salt, and little oil, and it can be very nutritious and healthy.

I mean do you think meat and cheese lasagna is healthy Mediterranean/Italian food? Of course not. But there are plenty of Italian and Mediterranean dishes you can make that are very healthy.

The cuisine isn't the problem - it's the specific dish and how you make it.