It is very rare that I eat fried foods, especially deep fried. There is nothing healthy about saturating food coated in white enriched flour with vegetable oil till it drips with it. It may taste good to the untrained palette, but healthy it is not. That’s what we southerners were raised on. Fried chicken, fried pork chops, fried Catfish all coated and deep fried.
There are healthy ways to enjoy fried foods without completely covering the flavor of the item you are frying with grease and breading.
One of my favorite vegetables to eat fried is squash… yellow, zucchini, any summer squash. While I do often Sautee squash, occasionally I get a hankering for old fashioned fried. So here is my healthy trick. First start with fresh grown yellow squash and a faithful iron skillet. Pour enough olive oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Add the thin sliced squash, salt and pepper to taste. Let it cook down till it is turning golden brown. Then add a couple heaping spoons of stone ground corn meal. This is where you watch it closely and stir to keep from sticking to the skillet as the olive oil is absorbed in the meal. My husband and I like our squash fried dark….. some don’t…. but real southerners do😉. Now you have crispy fried and tender squash without all the heavy deep fry oil and breading. It is like having cornbread with your meal without having to bake a cake! Olive oil is a very healthy nutritious oil. I use the lighter version so as not to add a heavy olive taste to the squash.
The rest of tonight’s meal was grilled outside. Quartered small red potatoes with garlic powder & everything bagel season. The main dish was fresh soho salmon straight from Alaska. This is the second time we have eaten the salmon and I’m completely sold on this small family company’s excellent products. Wild Alaskan Salmon and Seafood Company will always be my goto place for fresh wild caught northern seafood.
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