Spa Cuisine
Spa Cuisine is not a complicated style of cooking. It is a simple healthy style of cookery that your body will thank you for. It encompasses three basic considerations.
- low fat
- low salt and
- low sugar
This is not to say that fat, salt and/or sugar must be eliminated, but just that should be reduced. We over consume these elements in our ‘normal’ diets and we would be a lot healthier if we took the effort to review and subsequently reduce the quantity that we consume. From these basic three elements you can expand with organic, regional and cultural elements and even expand into allergy cookery if desired, but the three fundamentals of the Cuisine must remain constant.
Thai Cuisine demands that only the freshness of ingredients be used, coupled with the tradition of a high level of intensity in flavors means that it is relatively simple to adjust many of the so called traditional recipes so that they do conform to the guidelines required of Spa Cuisine.
So with the elimination of fat as a cooking medium, all deep fried foods become taboo, but rather than eliminate these dishes, adjust your cooking technique and try cooking them in the oven instead. For stir frying, use vegetable stock or water, just adjust the technique, and this is where it all begins – with the technique. Look at your cooking methods differently, do not add all that extra salt and reduce your dependence on sugar and you will quickly see how easy it is to follow the principles of Spa Cuisine.
As the overall health consciousness of our society develops, so too the need to provide a more universal cuisine that is suited to today’s modern fast paced, yet all too often, inactive world. A cuisine that will supplement and support other cuisines, yet due to the selection and treatment of ingredients shall remain unique. Simple things like the use of the coriander roots, something that is not done in any other cuisine will ensure that Thai Spa Cuisine remains unique.