Thursday, June 10, 2010

A Healthier Choice

The dish I'm modifying is soup noodles. This was eaten during lunch on day 2. My original dish had a lot of processed food and no vegetables at all.

Ingredients used:
- 1 plate of noodles
- 1 bowl of ikan bilis soup
- Some fresh/frozen meat, sliced
- 1/4 cabbage
- 4 wantons
- 2 crabsticks
- Spring onions to taste (I used 3)
- 1/2 boiled onion
- A pich of pepper
- 1 pinch of salt
This serves 1 portion.

I chose to use more spring onions, both cooked in the soup and as garnishes, because I like the taste of them. I also added pepper for more taste.
This dish is healthier than the original, because it contains vegetables, unlike the original. It is also more balanced as does not only contain processed food like the first dish, but also fresh meat. This dish also doesn't need any oil at all, since it is cooked in soup. The taste of the soup requires no artificial seasoning, as the ikan bilis will gives it taste to the soup through boiling. The amount of salt used was reduced from 2 pinches to 1 pinch.
This time when cooking, I used less processed food, with only 2 crabsticks. The wantons are homemade with fresh minced meat.
Overall, while I feel that this meal could definitely do with some improvements, like adding more vegetables or perhaps some fish, the bowl of soup noodles were definitely tasty and made a good meal.

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