I don't need to teach how to prepare noodles. There are various food blogs and websites to explain it with beautiful pictures. I don't want my blog to pool up in one of those and increase redundancy on the web. Rather I give some simple tips to make your recipe more nutritious and healthy. Overall a healthy twist to the known recipe.!!!
This is an ideal dish for tiffin boxes. [packed lucnch] . Especially for kids. They love noodles. If they are fussy about chillies and pepper mix it with curd and give them.
1. Swap the white noodles with brown noodles as they later are rich in wheat and whole grain. By doing so, we can avoid processed carbohydrates which are always warned by our nutrition experts. Carbohydrates of low GI values are always preferred.
2. Always remove the starch from Noodles.
3. Select any different veg which you rarely use for the curries in addition to your favourite ones. Ex: Sprouts, colorful pepper, sweet corn, runner beans and broccoli. Also try to select them from different colour groups.
In these you can use some from fresh group and few from frozen. This will balance the nutrients from different groups.
4. Shallow fry the veg with an oil which is rich in mono saturated fat like sunflower oil, sesame seed oil etc.
5.When the the noodles are half way through the process, start frying the veg. Always make sure the pan is covered. It saves the cooking time so that retention of nutrition content will be improved.
4. Shallow fry the veg with an oil which is rich in mono saturated fat like sunflower oil, sesame seed oil etc.
5.When the the noodles are half way through the process, start frying the veg. Always make sure the pan is covered. It saves the cooking time so that retention of nutrition content will be improved.
Also don't over cook veg. A good way to decide the cut off point to stop further frying is when veg have reached a balanced tenderness with a lasting crispness in the veg. A blind way to decide that when the vegetables are just about to loose the texture I mean when they are going to become tender.
Always add the easy cook veg like Broccoli just couple of minutes before adding the noodles to veg.
6. If you have any digestion issues, add some garlic and ginger flavoured olive oil [or crushed pieces at the begining of frying] when it is nearly done. It's good idea to have those whenever you are having your main meal.
7. Don't use any sauces. It increases the salt in take, hidden fat and foreign ingredients in the dish.
6. If you have any digestion issues, add some garlic and ginger flavoured olive oil [or crushed pieces at the begining of frying] when it is nearly done. It's good idea to have those whenever you are having your main meal.
7. Don't use any sauces. It increases the salt in take, hidden fat and foreign ingredients in the dish.
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