Fresh Food Cooking: Meat: The Healthy Way with Meat
(Fresh food cooking the healthy way series)
1. All ways start with the leanest cuts of meat, poultry or fish.When fats are heated into the flames and create smoke, Heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are formed. Both compounds are known carcinogens. By choosing lean cuts of meat and vegetables which are naturally low in fat, you reduce the chance of the nastys forming at all. The charred parts of food can cause free radical formation in your body and since free radicals are linked with premature aging, disease, and tissue damage, it's best to reduce your exposure as much as possible.
2. Clean your barbecue
3. Trim excess fat from meat prior to cooking it.
4. Keep a watchful eye to prevent BBQ flare-ups and the resulting charring of your food.
5. Use lower to medium cooking temperatures. When foods like meat are heated over high temperatures or come in.
6. Marinate meat in olive oil and fresh lemon juice-based marinades. Research shows that these two items can reduce the formation of the compounds by up to 99 percent while cooking.
7. Herbs like, basil, mint, rosemary, thyme, oregano, and sage for your marinades.. Scientists at the Food Safety Consortium project have discovered that these herbs drastically reduce the formation of bad by products of cooking on an open fire. Use one or more of these herbs, preferably fresh vegetables from your garden, in a marinade and during cooking.
8. One of the easiest ways to make your BBQ healthier is to add more vegetables to the grill. Do not over cook vegetables. The longer they cook the more certain vitamins like vitamin C and B-complex vitamins break down. So don't burn them.
prepare steak for the barbecue the right way
It can be easy to lose weight, remember, by cooking healthy meat. =
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