The Best Chinese Fakeaway Recipes - Slimming Eats - Slimming Eats (2024)

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What is the best Chinese to have on slimming world? ›

Best: Soups

Wonton, egg drop, or hot and sour? Take your pick. Each typically has fewer than 100 calories per cup. Plus, the broth helps fill you up, so you won't eat as much of the heavier dishes.

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Traditional Chinese dishes often have healthy ingredients and involve low-calorie cooking techniques. However, Americanized versions of these dishes can include added fats and sodium that boost the calorie counts, making them poor choices if you are trying to lose weight.

“Go for grilled dishes over fried; chicken and fish over fattier meats, like lamb; tomato or veggie sauces rather than creamy ones; and steamed rice over fried,” advises Laura. She also suggests avoiding sides and other add ons unless they're vegetables as well as eating mindfully and being aware of portion sizes.

Or the nutrition side of things? Fried rice has 570 calories (extra calories are from fat) and 900mg sodium. However, chow mien has fewer calories of 400, but a huge amount of sodium 1,060mg! Another thing that you could look at would be the number of vegetables in each dish perhaps.

Popular Chinese Dishes. General Tso Chicken – According to Grubhub, this sweet fried chicken dish is the most popular Chinese food in America. It's also unhealthy, considering that it is deep-fried and the recipe demands tons of sugar.

What Chinese food is bariatric friendly? ›

Chinese Cuisine – Egg drop soup, hot and sour soup, egg foo young, mixed vegetables with tofu, chicken or shrimp, chicken and broccoli, chicken with snow peas, moo goo gai pan (chicken and vegetable stir fry), steamed vegetables.

Stir-fried and braised dishes are also usually diet-friendly. Focus on fish, shrimp, vegetable and tofu dishes to minimize your intake of saturated fat.

At Slimming World, we don't believe in cutting out food groups. In fact, potatoes and dried plain pasta, rice, noodles and couscous are all Free Foods, which means that you can eat as much of them as you like! If you fancy some quick, comforting carbs, our healthy pasta and rice recipes will hit the spot.

It is difficult to say which type of cuisine is “more fattening” as it can vary greatly depending on the specific dishes and preparation methods. Chinese food can be high in sodium and oil, while Indian food often uses a lot of rich, creamy sauces and butter.