Vegetarian dishes are relatively healthy in everyone's impression, but there are also some vegetables that are particularly oil absorbing. Eating too much will lead to obesity, and cooking methods are very important. So, which vegetable dishes are more oil absorbing? How to cook vegetables correctly? Here is a brief introduction.
Which vegetable dishes absorb oil
Category I: loose and porous vegetables
Representative: eggplant, beans
Eggplant itself is very soft and contains a lot of water. During frying, water will evaporate rapidly with the temperature rising, and will enter a large amount of oil. Like beans, there are many holes in them, which are usually cut off for cooking and easy to enter a large amount of grease.
Category II: starch food
Representative: potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams.
The starch content of these vegetables is nearly five times or more than that of ordinary vegetables. For example, the potato starch content can reach more than 25%, and the calories per 100 grams are 93 kcal; The content of sweet potato starch is 20-28%, and the heat per 100 grams is 86 kcal; The content of yam starch is up to 45.7%, with 57 calories per 100 grams.
These vegetables are not low in calories. If they are boiled or steamed with water, they can replace some refined staple foods such as rice and noodles, which is helpful for weight loss.
If you stir fry it, it is not difficult to find that this kind of food is easy to stick to the pan, and sometimes you will unconsciously add a lot of oil to avoid this phenomenon, so it is easy to become a high-fat food.
Class III, some bean products
Representative: bean curd, bean curd, bean curd.
Some bean products are processed through soybean milk, tofu and other reprocesses. A few more procedures have not only lost more nutrition, but also increased a lot of fat.
① 100g oil bean skin=2 bowls of rice. ② 100g bean foam=3 bowls of rice. It is made by cutting tofu into small pieces and frying it in hot oil, which absorbs a lot of grease. ③ 100g bean curd=4 bowls of rice. Although the protein content of yuba is high, the fat content is not low.
The fourth category is meat like vegetarian food, especially mushrooms
Representative: beef jerky, lamb brisket, meat floss.
With more and more vegetarian lovers, a lot of meat like food has become popular, especially mushroom meat like food, which tastes like meat and is very popular with some vegetarian friends.
Mushroom itself is a very good healthy food, but after it is made into imitation meat dishes, the nutrients in it are destroyed, and food additives, high sugar, and high salt may also be added. If you eat too much, you will only get fatter.
The Right Way to Cook Vegetables
It is recommended to use steaming, boiling, stewing, cold dressing, blanching and other cooking methods in daily life.
Compared with other cooking methods, "steaming" can maintain food nutrition and original taste, and is one of the healthiest cooking methods with less oil.
Pay attention to two key points during steaming:
Control volume
The food volume should not be too large, or the steaming time will be too long, and the decomposition of vitamin C will also increase.
Control time
Take green leafy vegetables as an example. Put them on a porcelain plate and try to spread them flat so that the steam can contact them.
Adjust the steaming time according to the amount of food and the size of fire power, generally 2-5 minutes. The key is to take it out before the color turns yellow, and the color can still remain green.
In addition, try steaming eggplant instead of braised eggplant, blanching cauliflower instead of dry cauliflower, cold lotus root instead of dry fried lotus root silk, etc., with some dipping or seasoning.
Finally, we should also pay attention to the dishes in vegetarian restaurants.
Some stores will replace meat products with starch or bean products, and replace animal cream with plain cream sent with soy milk, nuts, honey, etc., which will not be really less oil, salt and sugar.
Even more oil, salt and sugar will be added to pursue the taste and shape similar to real meat dishes, which is also a hidden "heat bomb".