Why is a curry I buy from the local Indian considered more fattening than if I cook it myself??!
Answers: If I order an Indian from the local takeaway why is it worse than cooking my own, if I cook my own at home I try to make it exactly like a takeaway (as in the same ingredients) surely it is not that bad for you I think it is good quality food, why is it considered fattening??
While all of the answer you have gotten so far are reasonable most are wrong and so are you, if anything the restaurant food is healthier than yours, they may use more high fat dairy products in some dishes and more oil and some butter, there they tend to make things as they are ordered and it only seems they are higher in fat and calories, it is like chinese take-away, I am from Canada and like that phrase, we call it take out, but in that circumstance order lower fat items, veggie items (saag), dals and sauce without cream. No one uses hyrdogenated fats now and ghee is not as fattening as some would think.
Simply because of the amount of fat used in restaurant curries, often clarified butter known as ghee. At home you can keep the fat or oil to a minimum and choose a healthier option such as sunflower oil.
When we get take away's they do not come with the ingredients in them and a lot of the indian food can be made days in advance due to the spices thats in them so hydrogenated fats are normally added to them as this makes the shelf life of almost any product longer and its one of the most fattening things we can eat. Its one of the ingredients that gets left out of listing if the companies can get away with it and at take aways they dont come with lists so they are not bound by the same laws as say heinz or the like.
Hi
Did you know...Curry is a British invented food?. I don't like them, it's the only food that looks the same leaving your body as it does when it enters it, yuk.
Ray. West York's. U.K.
mass production/cooking of foods in large quantities, as in a restaurant as opposed to home cooking, generally use more preservatives and less healthy cooking methods... there may also be trans fats used in the preparation, depending upon where you live...
cuz it s a home made food so u 'v clean stuff to do every thing ,believe me u dn;t wanna know how the indian making their food