As you approach festive meals, you want to put your body at rest to anticipate excess weight. Here are some tips for cooking light without depriving you.
1. Replace starchy foods with vegetables
It’s simple and yet … This reflex is sometimes difficult to introduce into its eating habits. Remember to accompany your seasonal vegetable meats and fish. In salad, puree, soup, gratin (lightened!), The vegetables cook for a thousand and one way for lighter dishes.
2. Prefer white meat to red
White meat is lower in fat than red meat. So, rather than throwing yourself on a bib or a rib steak, orient yourself towards chicken and turkey for example. For pork, choose so -called “lean” pieces and discounted and degreased ham.
3. Eat more fish
Go to the Poissonnerie department. Salmon, cod or sole, for the easiest to cook, will lightly accompany all your trim. Provided to cook them in the oven or steam without too much fat to preserve their slimming capital. Do not forget the seafood either. Shrimp, molds, bulots, etc. are also to be noted in your shopping list. They cook easily and quickly and only require well -chosen condiments and herbs to be rich in taste.
4. Reduce the proportions of fat
You surely do not need a brochure of butter or half a liter of oil to cook a tasty dish. It is therefore very important to limit the contribution of fat in the development of your recipes. Be careful not to delete them either because they have their usefulness for the proper functioning of the body. Choose only the right ones, that is to say rich in Omega 3. Prefer olive oil in sunflower oil, a light cream …
5. Adopt healthy cooking methods
By healthy cooking modes, hear solutions that allow the least as possible fat. To you the steam kitchen or the small oven dishes for example. Small cooking is also perfect for cooking meats.