Introduction
Do you have room in your kitchen for some more kitchen utensils? Whether you do or not, we suggest that it is high time to make space for clay cookware. According to Ayurveda, cooking in clay pots has multiple health benefits and helps one cook more efficiently. The result is a more nutritious and flavourful dish.
Due to its multiple health benefits, Ayurveda recommends clay pot cooking. It is much better than cooking with regular utensils, not just for its various health benefits, but also because it makes it much simpler to cook and improves the food quality in the end. The natural insulation and porosity properties of clay cause moisture and heat to circulate through the clay cookware. Though this makes cooking in a clay pot much slower, it benefits from preventing amateur cooks from burning their dishes. More importantly, the nutrient and moisture loss while cooking in clay pots is much lesser than cooking in enamel-lined or metal utensils.
Health Benefits Associated with Clay Pot Cooking
Let us now look at some of the incredible benefits of clay pot cooking.
- Less Oil: If you want to cook your food in less oil, clay pots are ideal. All food can be cooked with just a spoon of oil making it as healthy as ever. The slow-cooking nature of clay pots and their heat resistance properties retain the natural oils of the dishes being prepared in these vessels. Clay pots are also absorbent, enabling the heat and moisture to circulate through the food.
- Circulation of Steam: The key health benefit of clay pot cooking is its ability to circulate steam throughout the cooking. This provides ample moisture, which means that one can cook with minimal fat and oil.
- Alkaline Properties: Clay has natural alkaline properties. On being heated, the properties of clay interact with the acid available in the food, neutralize the pH levels and make the food much easier to digest. The balancing out of pH levels, in turn, makes the food healthy and tasty. Clay Cookware is one of the best vessels to cook acidic food like tamarind or citrus based food as it is resistant to acids & alkalis.
- Enhances Flavour: Clay pots maintain the food’s nutrients, which improves the overall flavour of the meal. The process of cooking in clay pots adds calcium, iron, and magnesium, to the food. These nutrients are very healthy for the body.
- No Need to Reheat: Reheating of food always leads to loss of nutrition; however, clay pot cooking retains the temperature of food for a longer time; thus, it prevents the need for reheating food. One need not even transfer the food to a casserole.
- Inexpensive: Clay pots are inexpensive when compared to other non-stick and steel cookware. They are available easily at street shops in all sizes and shapes.
- Safe: Good quality clay is natural, from the earth, with no harmful chemicals.
Conclusion
When it comes to health benefits, earthen pots are the best. Zishta’s traditional cookware has excellent quality and the company has also been a frontrunner for innovations in traditional cookware. If you are looking to purchase clay cookware, Zishta is the best choice. We also recommend that you ensure that the clayware you purchase is free of holes and cracks. You must also avoid glazed clay pots and purchase only plain ones. Glazed clay pots are generally painted with a layer of ceramic paint which negates the benefits of a clay pot.
