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Quick Cooking

Nothing slows down meal preparation like hunting down ingredients in every corner of your kitchen. Keep a well-organized, well stocked pantry, and quick meals will always be at your fingertips. When you are in a rush, sauteing, frying, grilling and pressure-cooking are faster methods than stewing, braising, and roasting. However, when you have plenty of time but you can't be in the kitchen to monitor the food, stewing, braising, baking, roasting and slow-cooking require less attention than sauteing, frying and grilling.

To choose the fastest equipment for the job, use the right-size pan to help liquids boil faster and prevent areas of the pan from scorching before ingredients are done cooking. Also, you may want to invest in some gadgets and tools that make life easier, such as a garlic press and kitchen scissors. Consider buying a mini food processor. The mini versions do a better job with small batches of chopping (such as onions), and they're a lot easier to clean.

To speed the preparation time, buy ready-cut fresh vegetables and greens, especially chopped onions, shredded carrots, baby spinach, and other ready-to-eat salad greens. Likewise, buy precut stew and stir-fry meat. Or purchase other quick cooking cuts of meat and poultry, such as flank steak, boneless pork loin chops, lean ham, boneless skinless chicken and turkey breasts, turkey tenderloin and ground beef. Most seafood is fairly quick cooking. You can also round out quick meals with frozen vegetables.

To help food cook faster, stir food constantly and consistently, which helps heat penetrate more evenly into the food and speeds up cooking. Also, allow ample room around foods so that heat can circulate. When cooking large quantities of an ingredient, remove individual pieces as they are done to equalize the cooking throughout the batch and allow unfinished pieces to cook faster.

Quick Cooking for Diabetes

If you have diabetes, you might think that there are certain foods that you can't eat, or that you can't enjoy social occasions in the same way as someone who doesn't have diabetes. This is not necessarily the case: in Quick Cooking for Diabetes you will learn how to make changes to your choice of food, your eating habits and cooking, to help you manage your diabetes more effectively and live life to the full.

The recipes in Quick Cooking for Diabetes have been allocated their appropriate glycaemic index¡ªthis is a way of ranking foods containing carbohydrate according to their effect on blood glucose levels. If you have diabetes, combining foods with a low glycaemic index with main meals can help to control blood glucose levels.

Diet makes all the difference to the long-term health of someone with diabetes. If you have diabetes you should reduce your intake of fat, particularly saturated or animal fat, base your meals and snacks on carbohydrate foods like bread and pasta and also eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. Salt and sugar should be used in only minimal amounts.

Eating for good health is about matching your intake of food to your body's needs and keeping your weight at a healthy level, It is also about understanding how to balance food choices, so that you can enjoy eating without feeling guilty Even high-fat, high-sugar foods can be incorporated into your diet plan, if you know how.

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