Cooking with Lentils

10 December 2013
If you are looking for a healthy substitute for meat, lentils are for you. Teeming with nutrition and low in fat, lentils fill you up without feeling the need for fatty foods. Lentils are tiny beans belonging to the legume family. They add color to your kitchen racks as they...

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What Exactly Is A Dutch Oven, And Which Is The Best?

By Definition, a Dutch Oven is a name given to a two piece cooking utensil that includes a pot along with its well fitting lid. It has thicker walls than a regular pot and it is used on the stove top or in the oven for cooking anything from soups,...

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Cooking Healthy Beans & Lentils: Different Types, Cooking time, Nutritional Value & Taste

7 January 2014
If you are looking for a healthy substitute for meat, lentils are for you. Teeming with nutrition especially protein and Iron and low in fat, lentils fill you up without feeling the need for fatty foods. Lentils are tiny beans belonging to the legume family. They add color to your...

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A Dutch Oven:

The thickness of the walls, the difference in finishing the bottom versus the side walls, the inert and toxic free nature of the raw material, the design and position of the stay-cool handles… all of these features make it by far the best and safest Dutch Oven in the market. The...

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The Ideal Yogurt Maker:

You can make excellent healthy, home made yogurt in your MEC pots. It turns out more delicious, thicker and for sure healthier… and all you need is the pot! No need for any additional gadgets. It’s easy to make, and there are 3 steps involved: heat the milk to just...

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Is Ascorbic Acid really Vitamin C?

If I were to explain this in simple terms, ascorbic acid that is added as a preservatives to packaged food (including baby food), that which is conveniently labeled Vitamin C is not really vitamin C.  It is a synthetically derived ingredient that is chemically extracted from corn (most probably GMO)...

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What Is A Pressure Cooker And Which Is The Best?

When evaluating something to be the best, the most important criteria is to find out how well it can fulfill its core purpose: in this case it is to cook your food safely and nutritiously? Unfortunately most conventional pressure cookers are made of highly reactive metals and the high amounts of...

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Pressure Cooking with MEC:

Because of the unique design and the purity of the raw material, MEC pots have the ability to naturally lock almost all the steam inside the pot, letting food cook with its own steam. There are many valuable benefits to using MEC pressure pots instead of a conventional pressure cooker...

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Make Jams, Jellies & Pickles -- Without any Additives

Fresh Strawberry Jam made without additives or thickeners, in MEC pure clay pots.Ingredients: 3 -4 cups of Strawberries – washed and sliced 11/4 cup of brown sugar or Jaggery (sugar cane syrup) 1 medium sized lemon juice and zest. A pinch of salt. Recipe Cooking Method: Add sugar, salt, lemon juice and zest to your MEC...

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Pure-Clay Pot Fish Curry

Even after people of the ancient Southeast Asian culture gradually switched from cooking in clay to metals, they have always cherished cooking their fish in clay this is partly because of a unique nutrient rich ingredient – tamarind, which is at its best only when cooked...

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