Cooking a Low Fat Meal in Seven Steps

Eating healthy home cooked meals can be a tough thing to pull off if your job takes away more than 8 hours of your day. At the same time, home cooked meals don’t need to be extravagant and with just a little adjusting and practise, you could be whipping out entire home cooked meals in very little time. Here’s a quick and easy starting round with Healthy Living India’s 45 minutes to a healthy home cooked meal, using low-fat cooking methods and ingredients.

The first rule to low fat cooking when planning a healthy home cooked meal is Never Fear. The chicken will not burn, the dal or lentils or rice, whether white or brown, will not be lumpy, and the vegetables will not lose their flavour. You know why? Because there are steps involved, and someone’s taken all this trouble to lay them out for you! The Seven Simple Steps to a low fat healthy home cooked meal from Healthy Living India ensure that your first time with the pots and pans is a sweet experience.

Keep the following in mind:

1. Keep all ingredients ready on the counter before you even light the flame.
2. Read the steps carefully to see that you don’t miss anything.
3. Don’t bother too much with the time limit. Even if it takes you 1hr to follow through with all the steps, you’ll still get your delicious healthy home cooked meal at the end of the cooking session.

The menu is:

1. The Chicken Dish - Garlic Pepper Chicken
2. The Vegetarian Side Dish - Mutter Paneer
3. The Curry - Lentils curry or Dal
4. Cereal Component - White or brown rice

Required Cooking Instruments:

1. Pressure cookers – 2
2. Non-stick frying pan – 1
3. A deep microwave friendly glass bowl – 1
4. A microwave
5. A small frying pan

Follow this link for the Cooking an Entire Meal in 45 minutes post on Healthy Living India.