My health my responsibility (Swaadhin Org)

Can cooked food be healthier, so our daily delicious, preparations give us more nutrition too.   Here are 3 lessons from experiential learning , being shared below, as tips:  Cooking healthy: tip 1. Use authentic recipe & follow completely- Often we tend to pick up recipes from internet - give some time here to search & choose authentic, age-old and commonly-used recipe. A well-researched & possibly Ayurvedic instruction of making a dish, takes health factor into account, generally and must be preferred. Pick up a recipe, with small number of steps, which you can easily make and avoid any short cuts to these instructions. Often, we try to apply our intelligence and replace given steps in a recipe with our own ideas, this is better avoided, in most cases. For example: if some food grain needs to be soaked overnight, just do the same - instead of soaking for 2 hours and then cooking for longer time, because nutritious elements might be lost, with this over-heati...