Good health needs healthy Food

A healthy diet involves consuming appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water. It is important for lowering many chronic health risks, such as Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer. A healthy diet needs to have a balance of macro nutrients to support energy needs, and micro nutrients to meet the needs to meet the needs for human nutrition without inducing toxicity or excessive weight gain from consuming excessive amounts.

For a healthy life style people should people should prefer hygienic and home food must avoid eating outside. It creates obesity as well as the core of different diseases. Consume the fats and calories by walk after eating and take food full of energy, well cooked bu having less cholesterol. 

simple and quick recipes

Today there are also so many issues in cooking especially for professional women. Due to improvement in literacy rate and professions adopted by women makes difficult for a woman doing a job, taking care of children, home and also cooking.  Such women feel comfortable by hiring cooks or maids for cooking but it is not a tough job.
This is a fact that cooking channels have contributed a lot to solve this issue by discovering quick and easy made dishes. The food companies also made different product for their convenience.
Some quick recipes for woman ready at short time.

Spaghetti

Ingredients

• 4 to 6 chicken breasts, cooked, reserve broth
• 1 cabbage
• 1 onion
• 2 carrots
• green peas
• sauces as per taste
• 2 capsicums
• 1 package spaghetti, (16 ounces)
• 1 package shredded cheddar cheese, (16 ounces)
• 2 teas pone oil

 Preparation

Cook all the vegetables in sauces and spices with small chicken pieces. Boil spaghetti in separate bowl by adding one drop of oil. Then mix all fried vegetables with spaghetti, dry them and serve by Katchup and leaves of mint.

Chicken Biryani

Ingredients

• Chicken - 1, about 900 gms, cut into 8 pieces
• Ghee or Oil - 1 cup
• Onions - 2, medium sized and sliced
• Onions - 2, medium sized and minced
• Ginger - 2, two inch pieces, minced
• Garlic - 5 cloves, minced
• Garam Masala Powder - 1 tblsp
• Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Black Pepper Powder - 2 tsp
• Salt - 1 1/2 tsp
• Tomato - 1, large, minced
• Coriander Leaves - 1/2 cup, minced
• Rice - 1 cup
• Black Cardamoms - 2
• Green Cardamom - 1
• Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
• Cloves - 2 to 3

Preparation

Wash chicken and set aside to drain. . Heat ghee or oil in a heavy-based pan over moderate heat and then add slices of onion, fry till brown. Remove onions from pan, drain and set aside for garnish. Add minced onions, ginger and garlic. Cook over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes till well blended. Add chicken, spice powders and salt. Stir and cook over moderate heat for 5 minutes, checking that it does not stick to pan. Lower heat and cook for a further 8 to 10 minutes till water released from chicken is almost absorbed. Add tomato and coriander leaves and cook for about 5 minutes. Wash rice and soak in water for 15 minutes.Drain rice and add to pan with whole spices. Stir till rice turns translucent.Mix in 2 cups of water. Cover pan and put a weight on the lid. Steam cook rice over moderate-low heat for 10 to 15 minutes till water is absorbed and rice is tend.  Garnish with the reserved fried onions. Serve hot.

Kabab

Ingredients

• 500 gms minced Mutton
• 2 Eggs
• 1 medium sized chopped Onion (Pyaj)
• 5 Green Chilly (Hari Mirch) chopped
• 100 gms Bengal Gram (Chana) soaked overnight
• 10 pods Garlic (Lasan / Lahsun)
• 1 tsp Cumin Seed (Zeera)
• 4 Cardamoms
• 1  long piece Cinnamon (Tuj/Dalchini)
• 1  long piece Ginger (Adrak)
• 6 Pepper corns (Kalimirchi)
• 4 Red Chilies
• Clarified Butter (Ghee)

Preparation

Boil minced meat in 3 cups of water and a teaspoonful of salt till water is absorbed and meat is tender.
Grind meat into a fine paste.Take garlic, cumin seeds, cardamoms, cinnamon, ginger, peppercorns, red chilies and soaked gram dal and grind into a fine paste.Mix both the pastes well.Now mix well beaten eggs and prepare a uniform dough.Add finely chopped green chilies and onion to dough and mix well.Shape the dough into small round flattened balls or kababs.Heat ghee and deep fry kababs till golden brown and serve hot with sauce or chutney.

Mixed Vegetable

Ingredients

• 1 tsp methi
• 1 tomato
• 1 medium onion chopped
• 1 tsp zeera (cumin seeds)
• salt to taste
• 1/4 tsp tumeric powder
• 3-4 green chilies chopped
• 2-3 tsp oil
• 1/2 cup cauliflower
• 4 pcs Arvi
• 2 potatoes
• 1 capsicum
• 1 raddish
• 1/2 cup of all types peas chopped
• 1 turnip
• 1 beetroot
• 1/2 cupped cabbage chopped
• 1/2 cup peas
• 1 eggplant (Bengan)
• 1 carrot

Preparation

this dish is made as many vegetables as are avaliable. cho all vegetables with suitable size. Heat the oil and add all spices and ingredients. Cover and cook on very low heat till the water has dried and all the vegetables become soft. Do not add extra water and let them cook in their own juices. served with naan or boiled rice.

Cooking is not a big Issue

Cooking is the process of preparing food by applying heat, selecting, measuring and combing ingredient's to make sure that it’s edible. The term is often used in the narrower sense of applying heat which chemically transforms food that changes its flavor, texture, appearance or nutritional feature. Food is an essential element in our daily life and delicious food is the weakness of every individual. It is a common saying that it is easy to win someone’s heart by good cooking.
Lahore is a city of lively people and these lively people are also fond of food that is the reason spicy foods are more in use. Many restaurants and hotels have opened for people to make spicy foods by professional chefs, try to develop creativity in food. The specialty of our culture is “Garam Masala” which is very common ingredient in our food, develops taste and aroma and makes food different and special.

People give importance to taste that’s why elite class hire cooks for cooking to enjoy and entertain the food or cook by themselves at weekends. People are giving preference to simple and easy food. Chinese, Thai and Italian food are giving more importance as they are easy to cook and delicious in taste.
Another innovation in cooking is ready made masalas and easy quick made recipes by different food companies. Similarly the uses of sauces in cooking are becoming popular. Soups, steaks, rice, spaghettis, lasagna and all such dishes are adopted from western countries with the mixture of traditional spices.

  This combination is using day by day because people are fed up to try pure desi items that’s why they wants to develop change in daily routine food. Cooking is also become popular in teenage girls and boys who happily try new recipes.

The teenage girls are doing diplomas in baking and Chinese courses to learn quick recipes easily made in homes.

Improvements in cooking also comes in house wives the reason is the cook books in the market like Dalda ka Dastarkhuan and also the opening of cooking channels. Such TV channels are ARY Zauk, Masala TV and Zaiqa become famous among Pakistani and overseas women. 

Such channels on-aired variety of programs for cooking to baking, deserts, and different types of fish recipes, chocolate recipes and many more. Professional cooking experts and chefs are hired by TV channels who cook under hygienic and healthy environment. These chefs are professional degree holders in their respective fields and well renowned chefs of famous hotels of Pakistan including chef Mehbob, Zakir,Gulzar,Shai, Maria, Rahat, Zubaida Appa, Kokab Khawaja and many more.

Another development in the field of cooking is to get the degree in professional cooking. Students go abroad to study different courses of cooking to make themselves professional. Comparison also starts between the chefs who are a better cook. Competitions are held at different places for the encouragement of newcomers.

It is a fact that cooking is an art and it is not limited into the hands of woman but males are also take part equally in this field.