Indian cooking is said to be indispensable without cooking oil. Every dish usurps some quantity of cooking oil, while some believe that more the oil, better the taste. No doubt more and more oil tastes great in food, but let not taste take over your health.
Importance of cooking oil begins with the fact that is binds all the ingredients better. When a few bay leaves, curry leaves, pepper etc. are put into the oil, the fragrance oil emits is wonderful. Different ingredients bring about a different smell and hence it depends on what you intend to cook and thus manipulate the fragrance.
For instance you would not want your sweet dish to smell pungent or your tandoor curry to smell sweet. Besides bringing in fragrance to the dish cooked oil cooks the food i.e. it does not leave it raw. Most Indians do not like raw food and hence need their food to be completely cooked and this process is completely done by the oil. To cook the food sometimes there may be more consumption of oil while sometimes less.
Also oil usage depends on the quantity cooked. Obviously two tablespoons of oil will not cook a kilogram of vegetables.
However the world has been changing ever since the concept of healthy cooking has taken off. Everybody wants to have healthy meals that underline lesser use of oil.
Two tablespoons should do the job, whether little of excess quantity, so even if the vegetable is uncooked it is fine. Par boiled concepts too have swept the nation, where the dish is not completely cooked, keeping the vitamins intact which is otherwise lost when it is completely cooked.
Office going personnel mostly prefer healthy food as there is more of sedentary work and no exercise. By reducing the consumption of oil in the diet at least fatty tissues are not vigorously developed that lead to various health discrepancies and heart disorders. Add to this a handful of stress, which in now inevitable in everyone’s life and health problems then become rampant.
Hence curbing the proportion of oil and fatty acids is a good long-term solution.
The different types of oils that are there in the market include vegetable oils like soybean oil, pumpkin seed oil, olive oil, palm oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, safflower oil, sesame oil, rice bran oil, argan oil, corn oil, palm oil and more.
The oils that are considered healthy are those that have lowest amount of saturated fats acids and highest measures of unsaturated fats, that is preferable mono-saturated fats.
Hence olive oil is considered good for cooking as it increases good HDl cholesterol, that keep the heart healthier than other oils. Also one has to be careful while using oil seeds as some have allergies to it. They could lead a strong infection or can even prove fatal in nature. Hence be twice as sure when you take cooking oil home.
Overall cooking oil is a must but slowly one must try to use as little as needed and sometimes exile it.
