While the content of ingredients inherently makes a difference to your health, how the dish is cooked and put together makes all the more of a difference and changes things. Here are some interesting new cooking trends that can help you stay healthy and eat wisely, to keep your health in top shape.

Pit Style Cooking: Using a deep, pit-styled container made of cast iron or any other metal that can withstand heat can help ensure that your food is cooked faster without unnecessary amounts of oil. A pit styled pan can be placed over an open flame, and the cuse of charcoal can help cook the food with a char-grilled taste. This works especially well with rice-based dishes, which can be cooked without any oil or water. If you’re cooking meat and vegetables, the roasted flavour that lends itself to the sautéed mix makes the dish delightful.

Sous vide Cooking: Using the power and pressure of steam to cook, Sous vide allows for using a rice steamer or an open steamer, or even an immersion heating rod. In this technique, food is cooked at low temperatures, with water, and pressure takes care of cooking the food. The water evaporates from the heat and must be refilled until the food is cooked. Sous vide can work perfectly to make yoghurt and milk-based dishes. Vacuum boiling cooking: On the lines of the sous vide technique, vacuum boiling involves putting food into plastic bags and sealing them before heating them. This will then help take the heat to a very high degree (above 100 ℃ to 120 ℃). These plastic bags must be of good quality, i.e., food graded. The technique is useful to cook meat as it needs very less oil to cook, and the flavours remain intact.

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Delta-T cooking: A little complicated, this technique works very well to create heat in a burst for wholesome cooking. A sugar free cake works very well with Delta T – all that has to be done is to pre-heat the oven for a while, and then bring the food to be cooked to the same temperature, and then bring down the oven’s temperature to the same temperature, and then allow it to cook to perfection.

Parching grain: Another interesting technique, parching grain comes from an ancient tradition where food is kept free of any bacteria. Best for grains, the technique involves roasting grains, and then adding it into casseroles of meat and vegetables.

References:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/best-new-health-foods- 2016_567adc0be4b0b958f658f4ef?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&section=india

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/diet/Healthy-cooking-trends-of- 2016/articleshow/50307944.cms