Tips for Healthy Cooking

The first big change in my cooking is reduce the cooking oil. My choices are vegetable oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, olive oil, and butter for certain type of cooking. Find out more about health and nutrition for various cooking oil at Wikipedia.

My many thanks to Kevin and Claire's cooking program at goodtv (KC健康廚房). After one year of following their healthy cooking style, at average, my family consumes 2 bottles of 48 FL Oz (1.42l) cooking oil in a year. The picture shows my recent new opened Canola oil. 


There are two most important things to keep in mind when cooking with less oil:
(1) Measure the temperature by checking the running water drops on your dry heating cooking utensil (wok, pan, etc).
- small to medium size of running water drops is good for frying vegetable, while medium to bigger size of running water drops is ready for cooking meat.

(2) Use the appropriate size of cooking utensil as the size of your cooking food.
- small sauce pan is excellent for small family like mine. I mean frying your food in a small pot instead of frying in the conventional wok in Asian kitchen.

Note: You are welcome to check on my simple demo on checking the readiness of the cooking utensil and how I brown chicken without cooking oil in "Three Cups Chicken (三杯鸡)" posted in Recipe. So, go head with many experiments and feel free to post your questions or concern. Thank you!