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Jun 8th, 2006, 22:43
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My Fear of Oil + Indian Cooking
I am not only scared of calories in oil but its burn potential. Yikes, so no samosas, batura or vadas for me. I made baked samosas with fabulous results so I am wondering how vadas and other oily delights would turn out in the oven vs. 3 inches of oil. Any of you foodies know?
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Jun 8th, 2006, 22:48
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Baked samosas!! Indulgence without sin. Can I have some of that.
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Jun 8th, 2006, 22:50
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Sure come on over.
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Jun 8th, 2006, 23:11
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lot of steam cooking here as well. koyacuttai's, dokla's what not. dont miss the deep fried stuff....
try zero-oil cookbook put out by nita mehta!.. |
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Jun 8th, 2006, 23:12
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Wow there's a cookbook, that's fabulous!
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Jun 10th, 2006, 05:22
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Fat is what carries the flavour in most food, so I doubt you will find much "foodie" support for a zero-oil diet. Still there is plenty of light food to be had such as idlis and appams. Avoid pooris, curries and all sweets (except perhaps rossogollas). The traditional midday meal of the poor in Delhi (I often saw vegetable vendors tucking into this) was rotis with a sliced raw onion. There's an oil-free meal for you! You could eat that throughout your stay in India. Are you as obsessive about sugar as you are about oil? If so, watch the sweets, they are extremely sweet. Don't forget that adulteration of all food is pervasive in India. You will be ingesting all sorts of interesting things you didn't even know you were. Avoiding oil is an excellent idea as at least some of it is often used motor oil. |
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Jun 10th, 2006, 07:17
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Jun 10th, 2006, 08:05
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http://www.nrdcindia.com/pages/milkadulteration.htm Neil Kelly in his wonderful memoir of working as an advertising man in India, "Juggling with Tigers", relates the story of a potential client whose diesel distributor in Pakistan had complained when they changed the formula that it "no longer tastes as good as it used to". Most rumours of the motor oil threat concern dhabas and railway stations. Still, there are so many points in the chain where adulteration happens that you can't really be safe anywhere. Eat only fruit and drink only beer. Indian police sweep for illegal additives the way police in the west sweep for illegal immigrants, and with about as much success. The Times of India recently reported a raid on adulterated cooking oil makers in Bombay in which 500,000 litres of the stuff were seized: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/1577257.cms |
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Jun 10th, 2006, 08:10
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Sez, you almost seem indignant that I dare speak against oil, the staple of human creation. But I digress. I love wienerschniztel yet I refuse to make it because of the BURNING HOT OIL; not because it isn't absolutely delicious, especially when made with chicken instead of veal, seeing as I don't fancy the thought of eating
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Jun 10th, 2006, 11:32
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Jun 10th, 2006, 11:40
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 eschews oil in frying those morsels, uses clarified butter.. When wifey aint looking.. All I have to do is tell her that I am having veal and she exits stage left... not wanting to have anything to do with wide eyed little critters |
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Jun 10th, 2006, 12:07
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wow . . better you just buy the India DVD . . . I might be wrong, but I have a hunch you are gonna HATE it there
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Jun 10th, 2006, 13:34
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Jun 11th, 2006, 08:52
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Bija, who is going to hate it? Me? I've been to India twice.
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Jun 11th, 2006, 09:27
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I stand corrected. It seemed at first reading as if you were trying to figure out how to avoid oil while in India. Now I see you were simply looking for recipe ideas. Sorry, Madame
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