Snack Food

Fast Food

Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredients and served in packaging for take-out/take-away. Fast food was created as a commercial strategy to accommodate large numbers of busy commuters, travelers and wage workers. In 2018, the fast food industry was worth an estimated $570 billion globally.

The fastest form of "fast food" consists of pre-cooked meals which reduce waiting periods to mere seconds. Other fast food outlets, primarily hamburger outlets such as McDonald's, use mass-produced, pre-prepared ingredients (bagged buns and condiments, frozen beef patties, vegetables which are prewashed, pre-sliced, or both; etc.) and cook the meat and french fries fresh, before assembling "to order".

Fast food restaurants are traditionally distinguished by the drive-through. Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations that are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations.

Many fast foods tend to be high in saturated fat, sugar, salt and calories. Fast food has been linked to increased risk of cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, obesity, high cholesterol, insulin resistance conditions and depression. These correlations remain strong even when controlling for confounding lifestyle variables, suggesting a strong association between fast food consumption and increased risk of disease and early mortality.

Recipe of Fast Food

                                BREAD PAKORA

Method:

1. Boil, peel and mash potatoes.

2. Blanch chopped capsicum, beetroot, French Salt to taste to tastebean and carrot.

3. Heat oil (1 dsp), add ginger, garlic paste, Potato 50 g 1 medium sizechopped chillies, coriander leaves and rest of the spices including salt.

4. Add potato, blanched vegetables, mix well Beet root 25 g 1 small sizeand fry for a few minutes.

5. Divide the mixture into six equal portions.

6. Make a batter with Bengal gram flour with Mustard oil 10 ml 1 dspwater.

7. Add curd, all spices including salt into the batter.

 8. Trim the edges of the bread pieces.

10. Dip stuffed bread slices one by one into the Salt to taste to tastebatter and fry them in hot oil till golden Cooked preparation 540 g 6 brown.

11. Serve with chutney.

Nutritive value per serving 

 Energy (Kcal) 413

Protein (g) 9.25

Fat (g) 22.27

Mineral (g) 1.42

Fibre (g) 2.15

Calcium (mg) 96.88

Iron (mg) 2.39

Carotene (μg) 281.70

Ingredients                             Weight                       Measure 

Bread                                      200 g                        6 slices

Bengal gram flour                  100 g                        1 cup

Refined oil (absorbed)           50 ml                        5 dsp

Curd                                        10 g                         1 dsp

Green chilli paste                    4 g                          1 tsp

Coriander powder                   2 g                          1½ tsp

Ginger paste                           2 g                            ½ tsp

Garlic paste                            2 g                             ½ tspRed

 chilli powder                         1 g                             ½ tsp

Garam masala                        1 g                             ½ tsp

Water                                      100 ml                         2/5 cup  

salt                                        to taste                           to taste 

for filling

potato                                    50g                               1medium size                                     

Capsicum                              25 g                           1 small size 

French bean                          25 g                           5 piece

Carrot                                   25 g                         1 small size

Mustard oil                         10 ml                         1 dsp

Green chilli                         3g                              2 piece

Coriander leaves                 2 g                             Few 

Ginger paste                       2 g                             ½ tsp

Garlic paste                        2 g                             ½ tspar piece

Chat masala                       2 g                             1½ tsp

Salt                                     to taste                         to taste

 Cooked preparation          540 g                             6 

VEGETABLE MOMO

VEGETABLE SPRING ROLLS

VEGETABLE RAGI PITHA

VEGETABLE OMELETTE

CRUNCHY POHA

VEGETABLE CHILLI

VEGETABLE RAWA CHILLA

AMARANTH PURI   

STUFFED TOMATO