rice

Indians keep saying rice is fattening. But i lose weight with rice, and put on with rotis which are made of wheat!!!! Maybe becoz they r so yum, I tend to hog, or is it the body type?

It depends on how much you take... Fresh roties are easily over eaten because just so delicious, I can eat a lot with no curry, then take too much carbohydrate at once, easily put on weight without conscious, the other hand, eating rice is limited even with curry and quite boring to eat rice itself, so total quantity of rice is very little in my case, if rice is hot enough, it would be different but usually they serve slightly warm and dry rice which not my favorite.

I don't know body type affect to this, if Indian people eat rice much more than roti, then somehow understand, but if they eat roti a lot but not put on weight, then this is mystery to me.

It all depends on the amount and what you eat with it . There's no way around : Put more energie / calories into your body than you use and you will gain weight . Put less in it and you'll lose weight.

Are the roties the pan-griddled flat breads without yeast? If yes, it may be the obscene amount of ghee (clarified butter) used in making the dough and pan frying it.

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It's body types. I gain weight eating rice or pretty much any simple carb or really any carb in 'bread/noodle/rice' form. (Lentils and other things with carbs in them are alright).

Feed me a carb-free diet, even loaded with oil and I'll rapidly lose weight. That's essentially what happened when I lived in China but gave up rice.

My friend ate the same diet - lots of oily meat and veg, Sichuan-style, but no rice or noodles. She gained weight, probably from all the oil.

pan fried rotis are called baturas and are not what we punjabis call phulkas, whoch are dry and puffed up with their own steam vapour.Not much oil is used to make these and I live on both rice , iddlis,upma,rotis but no fried foods and no meat except fish.Rice has a higher gycemic impact than rotis and rotis are more filling and probably have more fibre.

Have been told that "chapatis" are some of the healtiest rotis to have and even recommended for those with Type 2 diabetes.I think they are made from beans or lentil flour ?Usually grilled over a hot flat pan without or very little oil.

phulka = puri (poori) in other parts of India, yes?

How oily a chapati is depends on where you are and really, who is cooking them! I've had very light, not oily chapatis and I've had chapatis that were soaked in oil.

The thing about Indian cuisine is that there are so many regional and even personal differences in cooking that you can't say any one way is the 'right' way to make something, or even that something is typical for "India"...because it probably isn't. There is, however, a general 'taste' you can capture if you practice. It's just that other things added to that basic taste will change depending on geography and personality. Just as no two families in the USA make the same kind of tuna casserole!

I make chapatis without any oil. On a Chapati pan. they puff up and cook nicely.

Growing up in India and England I cannot remember how many times we went to Punjabi homes where they made chapati the same way and then smeared the whole thing with mountains of butter.... there went the health aspect. Ugh...

Me too. I live on rice, rice crackers and rice cakes without getting heavier, but if I eat bread, I put on weight and feel bloated and heavy. I think some people tolerate different types of carbs better than others. The only bread I tend to use now are flat breads. Although sourdough's not too bad - maybe it's the yeast in the other breads?