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Healthy frying

Drake940
Drake940 Posts: 39 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Is there any way of frying healthily. I currently use a little bit olive oil in a pan to make chicken. Is that healthy. If it isn't, can frying ever be healthy.

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  • Lukdbestucan16
    Lukdbestucan16 Posts: 164 Member
    Yup.it is..I use two or three tablespoon and later just incorporate my veg in that pan.But sometimes when I buy whole chicken.I bake with skin .so no need for oil.then I do not eat the skin..unless it's stuck..looool
  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
    I use butter for pan frying, which is our preferred method for meats. I find the flavor better than oil or margarine.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    I won an Actifry at the company Christmas party. It crisps up the meal with a single tablespoon of oil, using hot air.
  • miz_ppyn
    miz_ppyn Posts: 118 Member
    I use coconut oil a Tbls is way more than enough
  • Bob314159
    Bob314159 Posts: 1,178 Member
    Coconut oil
  • TheChesireCat
    TheChesireCat Posts: 21 Member
    If you have a decent non stick pan, ideally with a lid, you can fry without any oil.
    I have one of the wide base with sides higher than a frying pan and lower than a saucepan. It's perfect and cook nearly everything in it. Obviously not as nice as frying in butter but much better on the calories.

    Spray oils are good too.

    I also came across a recipe with something they called it "healthy sauté". You cut leeks into thin shreds and fry them in a tablespoon of stock. Add a further tablespoon part way through cooking.(then add the rest of the stock and juice of half a lemon, pop your salmon on top put the lid on the saucepan. They come out looking a little like a noodle soup with steamed salmon on top). Worked beautifully in that recipe but I haven't tried it in anything else

  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    Saturated fats are the safest and healthiest to fry with. I use coconut oil and lard,; butter sometimes if the pan isn't too hot.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    edited May 2016
    "healthy" is subjective. A little olive oil is fine.. it does have kind of a low smoke point though. If your watching calories i would measure the oil because those cals creep up fast.

    edit-i use olive oil for raw purposes and ghee(clarified butter) for frying and high heat purposes.
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