7 tips for Making Healthy Food Recipes

Posted by Raghav Shah on July 19th, 2017

Training your taste buds to relish natural and healthy food is the way to go– it will make eschewing unhealthy food so much easier for you. If you haven’t tried this amazing weight-loss method yet, here are 7 tips to healthy food recipes that guarantee excellent taste.

1.    Don't fry! Give healthy cooking methods a try

Cooking methods such as baking, grilling, roasting, stir-frying preserve flavors and nutrients preserve the crunch of vegetables and make meat tender and juicier.  

2.    Swap unhealthy dishes with yummy salads

An occasional portion of mac & cheese or pizza or bhajias or poori aloo is fine. But the bulk of your meal should have a healthy mix of all the food groups. Here’s how to build the perfect plate: Fill half your plate with vegetables, one fourth with proteins and the other portion with complex carbs. Make it interesting with some healthy recipes. Add smaller portions of cheeses, sauces or creamy dressings.

3.    Marinate meats well

Marinating your meat for several hours before cooking is a great way to infuse flavors into the meat. Using good quality sauces and spices to marinate, can add excellent flavors to your meat recipe.

4.    Make homemade sauces/dressings

Sauces and dressings add taste to the recipes. Well, you don’t have to eliminate them from your healthy food list completely. Just replace packed ones with your homemade sauces and dressings, so that you can control the ingredients you add in. When you make your own sauces, it is entirely possible to transform your favorite barbecue chicken into a healthy dish. (You could hyperlink one of our recipes for sauces here)

5.    Substitute fruit juices with real fruit

We all love juices but do remember that packaged juices have no healthy fruit fibre and instead are loaded with sugar. So, ditch the packaged beverage, and eat the whole fruit instead—they have healthy fibre that keep you full longer, and vitamins and other nutrients that may be missing in juices.

6. Use fresh herbs and spices

Powdered seasonings and spices usually have additives in them. They may also be contaminated or adulterated. So, why not replace them with fresh herbs and spices? They are loaded with great flavors and are more natural than the packed ones.
 
7.    Substitute simple carbs with complex carbs

Refined flour is used extensively in cakes, cookies, white bread and most other packaged foods. Since they do not have fibre and raise the risk of diabetes alongside other preventable diseases, consuming refined flour is quite unhealthy for the body. Moreover, they have a very little nutritional value attached to them as they lack essential dietary fibre. Therefore, it is wise to choose complex carbs like whole grains, cereal and lentils. These healthy carbs can be incorporated in various tasty and flavorful recipes.

These tips will help you knock the kilos and become more energetic than ever!