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[quote=Anonymous]What are the healthiest (and easiest/fastest) Indian and Mediterranean foods - if your goals are to up the good cholesterol and lower the bad cholesterol?

I know lots (most?) Indian restaurant food is heavy and swimming in cream and probably cheap oils. And frankly I have that feeling when eating at Indian friends' homes too -- bc I think when people host others it's about serving delicious foods - which are going to be fried, full of cream etc - not heart healthy foods that you'd eat by yourself on a normal Tuesday night. Yet overall it seems like a cuisine that could go done at home w/ minimal oil and no cream. Is that true? Like I don't see how a cuisine based on things like spinach, eggplant, cauliflower, lentils can be THAT unhealthy. Same with Mediterranean food -- all I've really ever had is kabobs, rice, and a grilled vegetable like tomato on the side but it seems like simple fresh foods like that can be done in a healthy fashion.

So what are your go tos - that are easy to throw together on a weeknight? I feel like I need to step away from the "boxed" food - i.e. pasta and/or takeout; and Indian and/or Med seems like something I could stick with bc frankly I like spice and am big on jalapenos, serranos etc. -- not to the point where the food is inedible but just enough to give it a kick.[/quote]

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