{"id":1695,"date":"2017-03-12T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T10:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2017-03-12T10:10:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T10:10:31","slug":"indian-food-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/indian-food-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Food Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_7086.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_7086.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_7086.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_7086-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_7086-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is a quick insider tip.<\/p>\n<p>When you go out for Indian food, do you order your dish mild, medium or spicy?<\/p>\n<p>I recently had a discussion with an owner of a high end Indian restaurant in Bellevue. She encouraged me to never order a dish &#8220;mild&#8221; or 1-2 stars. The base of every dish is made to &#8220;medium&#8221; spicy or 3 stars. When a customer wants 4 or 5 stars they add more concentrated chili paste. When a customer orders 2 stars they add cream to the standard 3 star base. When 1 star is ordered they add even more cream.<\/p>\n<p>That is a lot of hidden calories and saturated fat! They do offer coconut milk as another option is the customer requests a substitution, but it is still a lot of extra (secret) calories.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a less spicy option, I would recommend ordering 3 stars and a side of yogurt or raita (yogurt sauce with chopped vegetables) as a healthier way to tone down the spiciness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if this applies to Thai curries as well? It doesn&#8217;t hurt to ask!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quick insider tip. When you go out for Indian food, do you order your dish mild, medium or spicy? I recently had a discussion with an owner of a high end Indian restaurant in Bellevue. She encouraged me to never order a dish &#8220;mild&#8221; or 1-2 stars. The base of every dish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattledietitian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}