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Use your imagination and reach less often for your oil can and voila! You can come up with healthy Indian snacks at no extra cost to your health!
Take Pav Bhaji for example. Though this cannot be termed as fast food and often consumed as a full meal, one often treats it like a snack.With pau bhaji, one should go easy on butter. Add more veggies like greens than just potatoes, tomatoes and capsicum, substitute pav with whole wheat bread and add a low-fat paneer or a leafy salad for a complete meal.
It’s a clear thumbs-up to instant noodles and pastas once or twice a week provided they are atta noodles or whole wheat pasta. Grilled vegetable-green sandwich works fine for Makhija just like dhoklas or steamed khandvis. Also, bhel with vegetables and green chutney is a great snack without the junk food evils. Grilled vegetable sandwich with green chutney, preferably using whole wheat bread makes for a good light dish that is filling, too.
CALORIE COUNT
Vada Pav (295 calories; 8.5 gms fat)
This deep-fried snack is loaded with calories of the wrong kind -- fat calories. Nutritionally speaking, it doesn't provide much apart from energy. Quality of oil questionable due to formation of unhealthy fatty acids ( same oil used again and again) that harm the heart in the long run.
Pav Bhaji 1 plate with 2 Pav (600 calories; 20 gm fat)
Pros and cons: Lot of saturated fat; lot of spices; Nutritional value of vegetables lost due to reheating.
Pani Puri 1 plate (6 pieces, 475 calories) (12.5 gm fat)
High calorie, spicy, high salt
Pros and cons: Questionable hygiene (quality of water)
Bhel Puri 1 plate (320 calories, 6 gm fat)
Pros and cons: Questionable hygiene
Idli Sambar 2 big Idlis (minus coconut chutney): 132 calories (2 gm fat)
Sambar: 180 calories, 7 gm fat
1 tablespoon of coconut chutney (90 calories) (9.1 gmfat)
Pros and cons: Very good for the digestive system but use of baking soda in restaurants to speed up getting the idli batter ready, destroys nutrients and affects the digestive system in the long run.
Khaman Dhokla 4 pieces: 220 calories (6 gms fat)
Pros and cons: Low fat and makes stomach full for 2 to 3 hours
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