Cooking vegetables page

[SJW2]

So I prefer to roast my vegetables, usually with olive oil - makes them quite delicious.

What are the pros and cons to this and other ways of cooking vegetables?

My main concerns are that roasting the vegetables increases glycemic load possibly - if anyone knows if it does, let me know and how much it does - and the use of olive oil for high temperature cooking. I'm wondering if it makes the PUFAs go rancid and thus bad for health? If it is bad, what is the best way to cook them that also imparts flavor?

I was totally clueless about cooking before going primal, and now know much more, but still have much to learn.

Thanks in advance!

[Fitness Wayne]

I typically cook my vegetables in a pan in either coconut oil or ghee. Both are pretty stable at high temperatures.

[magicmerl]

I typically cook my vegetables in a pan in either coconut oil or ghee. Both are pretty stable at high temperatures.

Yup.

[Wanderlust]

Bacon grease + Veggies = Winning

[peril]

You can dry roast if worried about the oil or use saturated fats that are more heat tolerant

[Chris_H]

Bacon grease + Veggies = Winning

^this.

Coconut oil is good as well

[Neckhammer]

Your way of roasting is just fine. Excellent in fact. For me though I cook very fatty meat over my veggies so that the veggies soak up all the yummy. Like tonight I have a pound of 75/25 ground beef that I'll cook in a skillet with a pound of mixed veggies and a half can of tomato sauce....some garlic, onion, and Italian seasoning to round it all out. The fats already in the meat so no need to add oils or butter. Thats dinner.

[jfreaksho]

My main concerns are that roasting the vegetables increases glycemic load possibly - if anyone knows if it does, let me know and how much it does -

They are veggies. With the exception of tubers (potato, sweet potato, yams, etc) this doesn't really matter for the vast majority of people.

[AMonkey]

Glycemic load with vegetables is essentially irrelevant. There is so little carbs in them anyway, and thats implying that GI/GL means anything anyway.