Cooking Healthy Food Made Easy

Healthy cooking is really all about cooking healthy foods in a healthy fashion so that the end result continues to remain healthy rather than ceasing to be healthy. Overcooking healthy foods is the surest way to ensure that the foods cease to be healthy. Vegetables for example, often bear the brunt of our over-zealous efforts to cook healthy food. 

Take Brussels sprouts or broccoli, and imagine in your mind’s eye the vivid green colors, which by the way represent the vegetable’s nutritional value. Excessive boiling will make the vegetables lose color, which translates to the vegetables losing their nutritional value and texture. All of the goodness of the vegetables actually ends up being poured down the kitchen sink when we boil them.

Finally, over boiling vegetables will only put the family off eating so unappetizing a dish.
The other extreme of over-cooking is under-cooking and the result will be foods that can end up harming the person. Take meats like pork that need to be thoroughly cooked to kill all the harmful bacteria in them. Lightly frying pork chops in a pan will not do any good. 

Then you have pulses like kidney beans that can cause an awful lot of digestive problems when under cooked. It is always possible to find the right cooking times in either a good cookbook or online at reliable foodie websites. Saturated fats can be a killer and using the least possible amount is always the best approach. Try to substitute them for vegetable based oils, olive oil or canola oil. 

Try to poach, grill, steam or bake foods as often as possible. Avoid any kind of deep frying and also shallow frying – avoid frying foods in oil. By abiding by these suggestions, it means healthy cardiovascular systems for the whole family. 

For many people the very thought of healthy cooking is anathema because they conjure up images of uninspiring dishes that are bland and taste like cardboard. A little effort and imagination will go a long way in ensuring true healthy cooking in your kitchen.