Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: rasekhoon.net
Source: rasekhoon.net
The recipe of demi tomato and its nutritional values:
Every day when I get home from the work, I do not have not enough time to cook so I am always looking for foods that will be ready soon. Some time ago I spoke with a colleague about what food we cook today, and we reviewed various options, then I remembered “demi tomato", which is a simple and delicious food and its red color is very appetizing. On that day, both of us decided to cook the food for lunch tomorrow. You guessed that this article is dedicated to this food, yes that is right.
Calories:
The total calories of it is almost 1,200 calories and if you divide it among 4 persons, the amount of calories of each part is 300 calories. Of course if you eat with the meal a cup of yogurt or an egg, the calorie intake rises to 100 calories and 55 other calories will be added.
Eat With this food:
You can accompany with this food, a bowl of yogurt and fresh coriander and a few drops of lemon juice. Also you can have fresh red tomatoes with this food. We recommend you to drink with the meal, a glass of buttermilk (which should be with little salt and with no gas). It would be so delicious.
The recipe:
First pour a tablespoon of oil for frying and fry the onions, then add the spices and after some minutes, add pre-soaked rice to it, and add the grated tomato to it too. If the amount of water is not 5 centimeters upper than the surface of the rice add some other water to cover the rice. Then chop the potatoes into small sizes and add them to the boiling rice. Butter is the last nutrient that is added to the mixture. After all the water is vaporized, lower the heat and let it to be cooked slowly.
Ingredients (for 4 persons):
Rice ……………… 4 cups …………… 640 kcal
Shredded potato ………2 cups …………… 160 kcal
Grated tomato ………. 3 cups ……………. 75 kcal
Chopped onion ………. 1 cup …………….. 25 kcal
Special frying oil ……… 1 tbsp. ……………. 90 kcal
Butter ………………… 2 tablespoons ……. 180 kcal
Salt, turmeric, black pepper … to the extent required … 0 kcal
Cook demi tomato with bell pepper:
Demi as a dish dating back to the time when the rice is arrived in Iran. The rice recipe in its own way has various ones, which means sometimes it is drained and sometimes it is cooked as katte (demi). The relatively large group of demies are in Iran and hundreds of cooking methods can be seen in all corners of the country so that northerners, coats the rice with smoked fish, while the South cook it with shrimp or pieces of fish and then eat it . In the West, people are inspired by their own way and in the East, demi is cooked by rice and mung bean but tomato demi is of foods that children like very much because of its taste and the red color. The notes of cooking a tasty tomato demi is as follows:
1. The most important thing to cook this dish is that rice should not lose its texture. To prevent this issue, you should handle it carefully and have the right amount of water and the grated tomatoes also have water so their water should be considered too, so the grated tomato and water is added to the size of a knuckle to the rice because more than this amount of water, will lose the intensity of dish.
2. When the rice is boiled in water, add a slice of bell pepper or sweet green pepper, and you will see that the flavor of it spreads in the space.
3. The best way to cook this dish, is cooking it in Teflon-coated pans and serve the meal in a good form.
4. For having the best tahdig (the roasted and oily rice, bread or potato on the bottom of the pot), you should use bread and not have the rice or potatoes.
5. The best oil for preparing this dish is butter and its flavor will be better too.
6. Spices such as saffron and turmeric are needed for this food and you do not need to add black pepper and salt to it, but if you can eat meat or chicken you can also add them with a little water, but these are not mandatory.
7. Besides the food, the best drink is a glass of douq (or yogurt and water), because it is better than any other beverage for this food.
8. What can serve with this dish is scrambled eggs, salads or Shirazi lemon. They have a unique flavor.
We Promise you to enjoy its eating.
If you have anemic:
It is better to eat a little red meat (as one of the top food sources of iron) with it. But with this food, eating citrus juice and vegetables such as bell peppers and carrots which also helps the absorption of iron.
If you have blood fat:
Instead of butter or canola oil add vegetables like green bean and zucchini to the dish, and even eat carrots with it. Remember to the mentioned vegetables will help you to regulate blood fat.
If you are thin:
The food is very appetizer. Red color is because of the addition of aromatic vegetables like fresh coriander and these increase your appetite. In addition, add a teaspoonful of butter to food which increases caloric intake of the cooked rice and eat it with a glass of lemonade which is also fresh and appetizer.
Why is draining rice better?
Khadije Rahmani says:
About a third to a quarter of the energy needed by the body is achieved by the grains among which rice has a special position. These foods containing complex carbohydrates and simple and complex carbohydrates make up a big part of everyone's diet. In the science of nutrition, in addition to the type of process on food, how cooking to maintain or reduce the impact of nutrients is effective too. Usually most families prefer to eat draining rice because it seems that in addition to being more picturesque, it also solves the problem of obesity. Thus they think by this rice loses its starch, which causes obesity, therefore they tends to drain rice, but this is totally wrong and just the way of cooking rice is changed (demi rice and drain) and it affects on the amount of nutrients in rice. To drain the rice, water-soluble vitamins such as B vitamins are destroyed. So it is advised to preserve vitamins of rice by cooking katte (demi) rice. Nutritional values of foods such as rice and bread are their B vitamins which are needed to metabolize carbohydrates. Since these vitamins are water soluble, when mingle with high heat, they are dissolved and. By cooking demi rice, you will have the same material but the other vitamins that metabolize starch composition and release their energy are also kept in rice.
If 100 grams of bread and 100 grams of rice are compared, the calories of bread is more but unfortunately in Iran, rice is cooked with oil so the calorie of rice increases. In addition, the index glasemi of demi is not different from the index glasemi of drained rice but when carbohydrates such as rice are cooked in long time, the speed of releasing sugar (glucose) rises from starch combinations and their glasemi profile increases too.
In another word, the combination of starch quickly becomes sugar in the body and therefore increases the body's insulin response, so that it will eventually lead to metabolic problems. One tablespoon of demi rice is equal to 1/5 tablespoon grainy rice so it has more calories per unit volume. Thus, it is recommended to cook demi rice, cook brown rice or whole-grain which is better for your diet.
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