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amother
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 Sun, Jan 14 2024, 10:53 am
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Vegetables in the beginning? Instead of frying, adding oil to whole pot of soup?
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amother
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 10:57 am
| amother OP wrote: | | Vegetables in the beginning? Instead of frying, adding oil to whole pot of soup? |
The only reason I have oil in there is because I sautee.
Why else hv oil?
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amother
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 11:15 am
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No. I use a tablespoon or at most two of oil to sauté the vegetables at the beginning. Soup doesn’t need more oil than that. It’s much more flavorful if certain vegetables are sautéed first. Most root vegetables like carrots and potatoes, and some others like zucchini, don’t need to be sautéd but for other vegetables it makes a big difference. Try it. Put up two small pots of vegetable soup. In one sauté an onion, a leek, a shallot and a celery stalk and if you want a small tomato. Then add the rest. In the second just throw the chopped onion, leek etc into the water with all your other ingredients. See if you can tell the difference.
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LovesHashem
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 11:20 am
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You can saute with water too. Doesn't taste the same but it's pretty good
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amother
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 11:31 am
| LovesHashem wrote: | | You can saute with water too. Doesn't taste the same but it's pretty good |
True. If you need to avoid fats and oil you can sauté in a little water first. You’ll still get a more flavorful soup than if you drown the vegetables in a soup pot full of water. Once you use oil you might as well use it to sauté but LovesHashem’s idea works great for the calorie conscious.
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ra_mom
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 11:34 am
| amother Copper wrote: | | True. If you need to avoid fats and oil you can sauté in a little water first. You’ll still get a more flavorful soup than if you drown the vegetables in a soup pot full of water. Once you use oil you might as well use it to sauté but LovesHashem’s idea works great for the calorie conscious. |
The nutrients from the vegetables are only absorbed if accompanied with oil- doesn't have to be a lot, even just a bit. So don't skip the sauté, which gives the soup base flavor.
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amother
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 12:52 pm
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Why would you add it later ? If you don’t sauté (like for chicken soup) then you don’t add oil at all
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Bnei Berak 10
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 12:56 pm
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Sauté the vegetables in oil, it enhances the flavours. And no, the slight frying will not make a difference in healthiness.
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ChossidMom
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 1:00 pm
I used to sautee the onions. I stopped.
Because oil becomes toxic when heated and reaches its burning point.
Olive oil is healtlhier than canola oil but reaches the burning point at a lower temp so it's not good to use olive oil. Canola oil also becomes toxic and is a very unhealthy oil.
It is definitely recommended to add oil later (that is - if you want oil. I don't bother and the soup comes out delish).
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amother
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 1:16 pm
| ChossidMom wrote: | I used to sautee the onions. I stopped.
Because oil becomes toxic when heated and reaches its burning point.
Olive oil is healtlhier than canola oil but reaches the burning point at a lower temp so it's not good to use olive oil. Canola oil also becomes toxic and is a very unhealthy oil.
It is definitely recommended to add oil later (that is - if you want oil. I don't bother and the soup comes out delish). |
Avocado oil is the safest and healthiest for sauteing. It's burning point is 500
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amother
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 1:19 pm
| ChossidMom wrote: | I used to sautee the onions. I stopped.
Because oil becomes toxic when heated and reaches its burning point.
Olive oil is healtlhier than canola oil but reaches the burning point at a lower temp so it's not good to use olive oil. Canola oil also becomes toxic and is a very unhealthy oil.
It is definitely recommended to add oil later (that is - if you want oil. I don't bother and the soup comes out delish). |
This is why I use avocado oil
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ChossidMom
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 1:30 pm
| amother Phlox wrote: | | Avocado oil is the safest and healthiest for sauteing. It's burning point is 500 |
I like to use avocado oil. Unfortunately, it is no longer available in the supermarkets in Israel. I bought a tiny bottle in a health food store for an exorbitant sum. Very depressing.
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fleetwood
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Sun, Jan 14 2024, 1:33 pm
| amother Phlox wrote: | | Avocado oil is the safest and healthiest for sauteing. It's burning point is 500 |
Agreed. This is what I use all the time.
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