Your food can be both nutritious and delicious if you reduce the fat content in your food. This is not difficult, nor will it make your food taste bland, as is commonly perceived. Grilling, roasting, smoking, steaming, poaching, baking, and microwave cooking are excellent ways of cooking if one wants to reduce one's fat intake. Thus by slightly altering your cooking style, you will discover new and easy ways of reducing the fat content in your diet.
To moderate the amount of fat used in the kitchen, you have to realize the purpose it serves in a particular dish. It could be used to impart flavor to a dish, or to give it a rich sheen, or to prevent food from burning or to act as an emulsifying agent or preservative. Whatever the purpose, fat can be easily minimized from your diet.
The first step to reducing your fat intake is by trimming and discarding surface fat from meat. The skin of most poultry can be left in place for grilling, roasting, or sauteeing, but it is best removed just before serving because a lot of the saturated fat is concentrated in the skin. Another way to cut down on the usage of fat is while cooking. Let us see how one can cook food with
