CookSmart (11th Issue) Page38

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Less Oil Cooking Tips

“Boiled vegetables with no oil!”, “Stir-fried prawn with scrambled egg. Less oil, please!”

As Hong Kong people are becoming more health-conscious, many of them request food with less oil and most restaurants are willing to satisfy their needs. However, do the dishes served really contain less oil? Are the customers really satisfied with the amount of oil being served? To fully cater for the “less oil” request from customers, restaurant chefs could take note of the following tips:

Ingredient

• Choose ingredients with lower fat content, e.g. lean meat, poultry with skin and fat removed, low-fat cheese and low-fat evaporated milk.
• Choose less canned or preserved meat, e.g. luncheon meat, bacon and sausage.

Cooking

• Use cooking methods like steaming, boiling, baking, stewing and stir-frying with small amount of oil.
• When cooking meat, blanch meat at first and avoid deep-frying.
• Use a smaller spoon instead of a ladle for adding oil.
• Avoid adding cooked oil in the dish just before serving.

Serving

• Thin spread or serve spread separately for sandwiches or toast.
• Serve sauce or low-fat salad dressing separately.

Healthy Eating, More Workout, You're so Smart!

To continue the efforts in raising public awareness and encouraging the public to adopt a healthy lifestyle, the Department of Health had embarked on a poster campaign at multiple bus stops all around Hong Kong, as well as on the bodies of tramcars.

The poster features a Chinese (Cantonese) word ‘叻’ meaning “smart”, which is made up of ‘口’ [mouth] and ‘力’ [effort]. It signifies that healthy eating along with efforts for more physical activities will make a smart person. This health message is spelt out by the slogan ‘食得健康,出力運動,你好叻!’ [Healthy Eating, More Workout, You’re so Smart!] so as to motivate the public to make changes towards a healthier lifestyle, especially those who have not made changes in their lifestyle before.

So, try to make efforts in choosing healthier food for yourself and your family AND being more physically active in the Year of the Rabbit. Be proud of yourself and tell others ‘我好叻’ [I’m so Smart].

For more information on promotional activities relating to healthy diet and physical activity participation, please visit our new ‘Change for Health’ website at http://www.change4health.gov.hk.