Oil-Free French Fries
Whaaaat? Healthy french fries? Does such a thing exist? Of course it does. I was surprised too when I first got introduced to this simply made dish due to my background: – french fries are a No No No food – . Today all the parts of the puzzle make sense to me. The main struggle with getting pounds easily or manifesting several serious diseases, is not sugar, but the processed sugar combined with fat (let it be saturated or unsaturated.) All we do is following the short cut and blaming potatoes, flour, pasta, right away, without stopping for a while and paying a deeper thought to the phenomenon. We are frying those little potato babies in a huge amount of oil; we tend to overfill the flour with butter when cooking and we forget to check that in most of the cases the topping sauces of our pasta or rice are fatter and perhaps higher in calories compared to the pasta or rice portion themselves. Not to mention the food industry who made an excellent job in fooling us with the ‘sugar’ argument. The general trend states that sugar is the enemy and that healthy denotes eating everything but…Read more …