Easy Low Fat Cooking Techniques
Put away the frying pan. Break out the baking pan and a big deep kettle. It is easy and fun to prepare food with low fat cooking techniques. The meals are more healthy, too.
Baking is the most simple of low fat cooking techniques. Steak fries baked in a single layer on a cookie sheet are plump, yummy and contain 100% less fat than deep fried french fries. Use no fat cooking spray on your baking pans to immediately reduce the amount of fat for anything you bake.
Braising meat in broth and vegetables creates a hearty luscious meal. Brown lean meat in a deep pan coated with cooking spray. Add chopped onions, carrots, celery and garlic. Cover with broth and allow to simmer on low heat for several hours. Braising takes longer than other low fat cooking techniques but the rewards are luscious.
Summertime low fat cooking techniques have to include the grill. Marinade lean cuts of meat overnight in a low fat sauce. Then pop the meat on a hot grill to cook quickly. Vegetables and mushrooms are fresh and flavorful when they are cooked on the grill, too. For variety thread cubes of marinated meat on skewers and grill, turning until all sides are well browned.
The favorite of wintertime low fat cooking techniques is roasting. Trim fat from a meat roast. Quickly brown all sides of the roast in a large pan coated with cooking spray. Place on a cooking rack inside a baking pan. Cook the whole thing in a hot oven, allowing the fat to drip away as it roasts. Toss cut up vegetables with low fat salad dressing, dump in a spray-coated glass pan and roast alongside the meat.
Try baking, braising, grilling and roasting to add variety into your diet with low fat cooking techniques.
