Pan-frying
Cooking idea, cooking tips October 19th, 2009Pan-frying allows food to be cooked in a minimum of fat. As mentioned earlier, for best results it is important to use the right size pan, for if you cook a small piece of meat in a large pan, the fat around meat will burn. A few points to remember:
• Use oil (olive, cold-pressed or other polyunsaturated) rather than margarine or butter
• Brush the pan with oil rather than pouring it, and you will cut your oil consumption by at least half.
• Wait till the oil is hot before you start cooking.
• Never allow the oil to burn.
• Dry ingredients well before pan-frying, as moisture or juices create steam and lower the temperature the oil.
• Trim fat from all meat before pan-frying.
• Avoid pan-frying cuts of meat thicker than 3 cm.
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