best things to order in a takeaway?

tartansheep

so my parents get a takeaway every Friday, which usually I am at work for. However, recently I have been given fewer shifts at work and have had to stay at home (I'm 18), and then have had a takeaway. They always get Indian.

I tend to save up my calories for the evening meal but apparently the dishes can be 1000 or more!

I was wondering what is the healthiest thing? I've been getting chicken shashlik because it's not really too oily, but am going to try going veggie - and the takeaway we use doesn't do vegetable shashlik or tandoori dishes at all! Also, I'm trying to avoid rice and naan, but am not sure of an healthier alternative. Tonight I had a vegetable madras, but the sauce was far thicker than I had thought, and probably full of oil

If anyone has any ideas, it would be brilliant!

also interested in the healthiest things, or most nutritional things, for any sort of takeaway food.

Many thanks!

Foodiethinking

Usually the best thing to have (which I've already logged for tomorrow night) from an Indian takeaway is something dry like chicken tandoori and chicken tikka. They are mainly whole chicken breast (but can vary place to place) and just a spice rub. If you really want a sauce, go for a tomato based one instead of a creamy one like korma or masala. Finally, often the stronger tasting a food, the less we eat so aim for something spicy if you can manage it. With some things like masala, you can skim the top for oil in the container it comes in, and leave the last table spoon of sauce behind since the oil will cling to the first and last bits.
If you really want your usual like a korma, half the portion straight away with rice and put in another bowl for the next day at lunch- half the calories for each meal and twice the pleasure for the same price.
I always order salad with mine if I have none lying around to balance out the meal and a replacement for naan bread is a chapati- like a thicker version of a wrap. Naan bread tend to be brushed with butter but this is dry and a third of the calories. Alternatively just get what you want and factor it into your day.
In all honesty I'm not sure about the vegetable dishes, I just tend to order salad on the side or a sag aloo (spiced spinach).

**and breathe** hope this helps

tartansheep

this is great, thanks so much! anyone else??

tartansheep

anyone ? ?