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voodoodoll
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Posted: 20 Jun 2007 10:19 am |
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found out my parents are taking me and my fiancee out to this new indian restaurant that has just opened up locally called Ackbars. i love indian food and ive been wanting to go for ages. any idea of some healthy options i can choose which will not sabotage my diet?
Thanks
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Aimless
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Posted: 20 Jun 2007 10:42 am |
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I've been trying to come up with a solution to this, because I really like Indian food. I would just avoid dishes with lots of sauce, so I've been going for biryani and dry tandoori dishes. I don't get too worked up about it though when I have been out for meals, after all it's just one meal out of weeks of being good.
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Nir
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Posted: 20 Jun 2007 02:11 pm |
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I would go for a vegetable, prawn or chicken-breast-based dish (rater than beef or lamb).
If they give you lots of rice, you don't have to clean your plate. Brown rice would be healthier but it probably isn't available in most restaurants (still watch portion size - remember that rice is cheap that's why they're giving you so much).
Poppadoms are relatively low in calories (300 calories per 100g but they are light). On the other hand try to avoid Naan bread or Chapatis.
As far as relishes and sauces go try to aim for something vegetable based or tomato based.
(by the way they probably use oil or coconut in the curry sauce, despite it being tomato-based).
Try to avoid deep-fried stuff like samosas and bahjis.
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voodoodoll
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Posted: 21 Jun 2007 09:31 am |
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Thanks guys, i really love chicken tikka massala  but i know its got that gee butter in it so its really fattening! 
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Aimless
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Posted: 21 Jun 2007 09:35 am |
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I think it's pretty impossible to avoid ghee being used in Indian food. 
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voodoodoll
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Posted: 21 Jun 2007 09:39 am |
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| yeah you're probably right. might just give myself the meal off from all this healthy eating and have a tikka massala, i've been pining for it all week. can still watch the rice and not have a naan bread so wont be going off the rails. i cant see what difference one meal will really make when i've been good all week.
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