Culinary Tip: Warming & Cooling Properties of Food
/Do you know that the cooking method affects the energetic property of the food, i.e., does it warm us up or cool us down?
- Raw foods -- most cooling
- Steamed, poached -- cooling
- Boiling -- neutral
- Stir-fried -- mildly warming
- Baked -- warming
- Roasted, grilled -- most warming
To help you with the cold winter days, stick to mostly warming cooking methods, and in hot, summer weather to cooling methods.
Enjoy Shitake Bacon, a quick recipe for roasting shitake mushrooms, which you can use as a garnish for your warming soups.