Healthy or not Healthy, That is the Question

~Blog Post #4

April 20, 2015

By: Nathan Gupta

 The common perception of Indians is that they are vegetarians and to a certain extent that is true , however, there is a large portion of the population who eat meat, but omnivores and herbivores are not the topic of this post, it is whether the food Indians eat is healthy. On the whole the food Indians eat is very healthy, most foods include boiled veggies mixed in a broth with meat of some stir fried veggies or some other way of cooking veggies. Most Indians eat a lot of vegetables prepared in many different ways, all of them are delicious. I did say on the whole, there is a small type of Indian cooking which uses a lot of butter and cream with meat and little to no vegetables, and although this type of cooking is very delicious it isn't healthy, but if I had to compare the Indian diet to the American diet, in terms of healthiness, the Indian diet wins. Some of the best Indian recipes are the healthiest, my personal favorite is mutter paneer, which is peas mixed with tomato sauce and some ricotta cheese and some recipes have cream some don't. Another recipe I like is saag paneer which is pureed spinach with some ricotta cheese and that's it. In India there isn't a problem with diet, people know what they should and shouldn't eat and most people have grown up eating veggies cooked in a delicious yet healthy ways. In Like Water For Chocolate, food is used to express emotion every time a new emotion is felt there is a new food, and Indian food is no different, there are foods that are made during happy times and foods that are made during sad times.

Mutter Paneer: http://food.ndtv.com/recipe-matar-paneer-100464

Saag Paneer: http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/saag-paneer/