Tag Archives: Healthy Eating

Why Rancid Cooking Oil is Bad For You?

When it comes to the health of our families, we make sure we purchase a heart friendly healthy cooking oil, even if it is a little pricier. Then how is it that our oil still becomes distasteful? Just as foods become rancid due to excessive exposure to air, water, or light, cooking oil, too, becomes rancid and unfit to use. What is rancid oil? For most, rancid oil is not a common cooking terminology, yet we’ve all come across it or Read More...

10 Unknowing Ways We Make Food Less Nutritious

Many of us are highly concerned about what we cook and when we cook, though still end up inadvertently making our food less nutritious. We go to the best places to source our ingredients and buy the ‘good quality’ vegetables that are healthy for our families, but do we ever think of how we cook or whether we are cooking correctly? Here are 10 unknowing ways we’re making our food less nutritious: Boiling vegetables Vegetables are a very important part of our Read More...

Healthy Recipes: Doodhi Methi Muthia

Muthia is a healthy teatime snack packed with flavour and nutrition. The healthy recipe is easy to make and perfect when served with a cup of tea or coffee. Make a healthy choice and choose to steam them instead of frying them. Tip: Wondering what to do with your leftover rice? Add 2 spoons full of rice to the muthia mixture below for better consistency. Ingredients 1 cup   bottle gourd (lauki), grated and water removed ¼ cup  bengal gram (besan) 2 tbsp  semolina (suji) 2 tbsp  Read More...