It’s called the steam diet, or the vaporine diet, and it’s a perfect diet for anyone who wants to lose weight and deflate. In fact, the steamed diet, thanks to the particular type of cooking used for the preparation of meals, allows you to halve the portions. The direct consequence is weight loss and, obviously, also the purification of the body.
When following a diet, most of the time you focus only on calories and not on cooking which is very important. Each type of cooking gives a different flavor to food, but it increases or decreases the calories we consume. For example, frying is certainly not the preferred cooking method if you are on a diet. On the other hand, steaming is perfect. In addition to being a light type of cooking, steam cooking allows you to preserve and enhance all the properties and taste of food, cutting calories. Do you want an example? There he is. 100 grams of fried potatoes contain 200 calories, the same amount cooked in the oven will have 150 calories and 71 if the potatoes are cooked boiled. Read on after the photo
The same amount of steamed potatoes will only have 45 calories. Understand what difference? If you believe that steaming is a “hospital” cooking you are wrong. Because even by steaming you can prepare tasty dishes. Plus healthy. Have you never steamed? Here’s how it’s done. The food is placed in a perforated basket and cooked thanks to the steam created by the water found in the pan below. Read on after the photo
In this way, the food absorbs moisture, but does not give up its nutritional properties or flavor. How are foods seasoned? With aromatic herbs and a drizzle of raw oil.
The vaporina diet takes advantage of this super light but tasty cooking method. You can use the bamboo steamer that is used in Asian cuisine or opt for the electric one. Or, if you don’t have any of these, you can place a perforated steel basket over a pot of boiling water and place the food on top. Read on after the photo
Important: the food must never come into contact with water, which must be sufficient to guarantee cooking. To make the food tastier, you can put some herbs in the cooking water. Let’s see which foods to steam. First of all the vegetables (asparagus, courgettes, broccoli, beans, fennel) but also the fish and chicken which will then be accompanied with vegetables. What are we eating. Your steamed diet day begins with a low-fat yogurt and a cup of green tea. For lunch, opt for a steak of salmon with steamed vegetables while for dinner you could eat steamed chicken breast with zucchini and carrots.
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