Lisa Leong’s Healthy Asian Cuisine
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Singapore celebrity chef Lisa Leong educates us Thursday night that great tasting food can also be healthy. As a primer to August 8-9 cooking course, Chef Leong taught the media participants clustered at Tang City Glorietta 3 branch the healthy way of preparing delectable dishes. To those who are not familiar with the name, Lisa Leong is one of the most popular chefs in Southeast Asia. At age 55, she is currently a food and travel writer for Gourmet Living and a TV chef. 25 years of culinary experience paved the way for her endorsements, highlighting New Asian health cuisines that nutritional She also contributes to different food magazines across Asia and is the spokesperson for leading branded food and Philips products.
Very much the talker and comic, Lisa Leong tells us that not all healthy food are bland, colorless or boring. She reintroduces Coconut Oil as the new Asian key ingredient in Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai and Singaporean cuisine.
“Coconut oil is a healthy and great-tasting cooking ingredient,” explains Leong. “It suits my gourmet style and appeals to millions of people in the region, as well, who use it in their daily meals.” But more important than its prominence as an ingredient in Asian cooking traditions, coconut oil is a naturally occurring oil that contains beneficial medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs).
Beneficial MCTs are fatty acids aid in the metabolic processes of the body including fat regulation, weight control and anti-infection activity. Basically, MCTs in coconut oil contribute to a holistic diet and help combat the excessive intake of harmful trans fatty acids. Recognizing the valuable contribution of MCTs to staying fit, Chef Leong chose coconut oil products from Team Asia Corporation, the leading provider of consumer health products, for her New Asian style cuisines.
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