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Indian Takeaways - Healthy Options??

jacqui250
jacqui250 Posts: 53
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Hello Everyone

I love hot and spicy food and usually have a Indian Takeaway once a week. My favourite is a prawn bhuna with salad and spicy onions (no rice or chips). Not sure if this is the better option or not, anyone have any ideas??
Cheers Peeps

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  • Ant_the_old_keith_lemon
    Ant_the_old_keith_lemon Posts: 272 Member
    home cooked prawn bhuna :) you know what you are putting in it :)
  • kendrafallon
    kendrafallon Posts: 1,030 Member
    Why not just skip the takeaway and make your own? There are plenty of good Indian recipe books out there, not to mention some fab websites!!

    Being Indian myself, the takeaways never do Indian cooking any justice! An Indian TV chef's site I can recommend (since Mum uses it and the recipes turn out fab!) is :
    http://www.sanjeevkapoor.com

    Also Madhur Jafrrey is back on the box with a damn good cookery show, her website:
    http://www.madhur-jaffrey.com
  • slugkiller
    slugkiller Posts: 90 Member
    I agree with 'cook your own' but if you must takeaway occasionally try Chicken shashlik - dry marinated chicken with chargrilled peppers and onion. I'd pinch a spoonful of someone else's dinner for sauce ..... :tongue:
  • cayman07
    cayman07 Posts: 77 Member
    I agree with 'cook your own' but if you must takeaway occasionally try Chicken shashlik - dry marinated chicken with chargrilled peppers and onion. I'd pinch a spoonful of someone else's dinner for sauce ..... :tongue:

    I have shashlik or tikka and ask for some green chillies on the side to some heat :). Also seems spicy poppadum is lower calorie than non-spicy, replace nan with Chiapata, also have boiled rice.
  • jacqui250
    jacqui250 Posts: 53
    Why not just skip the takeaway and make your own? There are plenty of good Indian recipe books out there, not to mention some fab websites!!

    Being Indian myself, the takeaways never do Indian cooking any justice! An Indian TV chef's site I can recommend (since Mum uses it and the recipes turn out fab!) is :
    http://www.sanjeevkapoor.com

    Also Madhur Jafrrey is back on the box with a damn good cookery show, her website:
    http://www.madhur-jaffrey.com

    Thanks for this, to be honest I don't do much cooking but I would like to try and make my own Indian dishes (need to start getting creative in the kitchen). I'm going to give it a bash and let you know how it goes!
    Cheers :-)
  • SuzMcH
    SuzMcH Posts: 343 Member
    I've bought the Hairy Dieters recipe book. and they have a few lower cal curry recipes. I'm goingt o attempt one next weekend. But my friend made one last week when we were round for dinner and it was fab.

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