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| Pearl Barley Risotto |
Eat Good Food Restaurant, Kolkata
Like most people I feel that the word tasty and healthy dont fit in the same line. Anyone who has ever gone through the motions of following a diet knows how painful the entire process can be. Firstly as a vegetarian my options get cut down next to nothing and then the entire hassle of preparing the food is a major turnoff for me. And then being denied the pleasures of indulging in a dessert when you have a sweet tooth is torturous. Your favorite food starts swirling in your head while you are trying miserably to chew on that lettuce leaf or munch the bland carrot stick. ARGH!!! No wonder most people on a diet are so cranky 😛 But hold the phone…you can get tasty & healthy, DIET food??? Plus a dessert??? And not stress about calorie count??? Where does such a place exist except in our imaginations…Well Hena Nafis, the top nutritionist and dietitian in Kolkata, opened her own restaurant called Eat Good Food recently and they promise all this plus more…
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| Herbed Garlic Soup |
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| Rice Noodle Salad |
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| Greek Salad |
They recently made some additions to the menu and few of us were invited to sample the food. Hena suggests that while picking out your food make sure that you order from the same category of food type ie Low Glycemic, High Protein or Low Carbs to get the maximum benefit. Some of the recent additions to the vegetarian segment are – Chinese Style Paneer with Soba Noodles, Pearl Barley Risotto with Broccoli, Asparagus and Mushroom, Baked Vegetable Lasagna and Eat Good Food Special Mixed Grill Platter. We started the meal with some Herbed Garlic Soup which was light, flavorful and hit the spot for me. Next came the salads which were ok. I mixed the two and the combination was so yum that I gobbled it up. I then tried a helping of the barley risotto…I love risottos and this was really good! I didnt miss the rice as barley proved to be a great substitute plus I was saved from the heavy bloated feeling that a lot of risottos end up giving you.
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| Chinese Style Paneer with Soba Noodles |
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| Apple and Cinnamon Infusion Water |
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| Grilled Tofu with Green Goddess Dripping Sauce |
The paneer and soba noodles came in next…for a Chinese food lover like me it is such a boon to gobble up noodles without feeling guilty about the carbs of it 😀 Im so happy I have a place to go to in town where I can get some decent soba noodles. The grilled tofu dish was quite filling for me but I couldn’t help myself from finishing it since the sauce paired so well with the tofu. I could just manage a bite of the lasagna which was surprisingly supposedly guilt free in spite of having cheese in it…damn! But the crowing glory of the meal was the dessert…oh sweet lord the dessert! Chocolate and Orange Pot…everyone present were stunned that how could something so sinful and decadent could be diet food?!? Seriously you must go here for the dessert selections alone! At the end of it all the bill will summarize the amount of calories you consumed in your meal which will leave you with the biggest grin on your face…trust me! Me and Dolon recently went back for lunch where along with drinks, meat, rice, paneer and some amazing Nevadan Chocolate Ganache we consumed all of 900 odd calories between the two of us! AND our bill was less than 1k 😀 Like seriously how does it get better than this??? Do drop by sometime…I will catch you later…Peace!
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| Veg Lasanga |
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| Chocolate and Orange Pot |
PS – The author was invited by the PR of the restaurant to try out the menu. Views expressed are genuine and the author’s own.
