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In article <16FFFAEFFS86.JR9172A@american.edu>, JR9172A@american.edu
(Jennifer Rasmussen) wrote:

> Hey, my friend and I are looking for inexpensive healthy (low fat, etc.)
> restaurants, not nec. veg.  We've tried the Vegetable Garden (very good),
> and Delights of the Garden (Also good).  Any suggestions?  We love Indian
> food, but does anyone make "careful" (sparingly oiled) Indian food?  Thanks.

Indian food sans oil, that's a hard one! However, if you pick certain
dishes you can get around the usual overabundance of fat. For example,
idlis are steamed rice/dhal patties, served with sambhar (more or less
unoily dhal "soup") and coconut chutney (OK, if you've got the willpower
you can leave it alone ;^>). Siddhartha in Silver Spring makes wonderful
idlis, IMHO.  Idlis are S. indian, so probably other S. indian places in
town carry them too. 
Biryanis (rice pilafs, basically) should be relatively lowfat, too.  There
are other steamed Indian foods (dhokla, etc) but you dont see them on menus
much.....  Consider also that if you eat alot of rice and split an order of
curry or whatever the overall fat content of the meal will be lower than if
you fill up on several high-fat dishes.  That's how most people in the
world eat, anyway.

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