Have you ever noticed your chopping board while cutting the vegetables? If you have, then you must have noticed that every day we throw a major part of our vegetables in the waste-bin. Imagine, if we would have cooked those parts too, then what amount of food wastage would have lessened? That is what the world terms as 'zero-waste cooking'. In the recent time, zero-waste cooking is something the chefs of the world are talking much about.
Restaurants around the world waste several million tons of food every year. Even in every household, we cut off almost half of a vegetable we buy. Hence, zero-waste cooking is something that the world is looking up to.
It is all about cooking every part of an ingredient, especially vegetables, we buy from the market. Here we bring you a few of such vegetables which can be cooked without wasting a single part of it. Read on.
Also Read: Waste No More! 5 Ways To Reduce Food Waste, While Saving Money Zero-Waste Cooking: 4 Vegetables You Can Use Without Wasting A Bit: 1. Bottle Gourd ( Lauki ): We generally peel off the skin of the gourd and throw it in the dustbin. Instead of doing that, what we can do is, chop it into thin pieces and deep fry it with nigella seeds ( kalonji ) and salt.
Lauki skin fry tastes incredible with steamed rice and ghee. It is a very common food in a Bengali house-hold. Even lauki's leaves and stems are edible.
Like Sarso or palak , lauki saag also taste really good. 2. Cauliflower: Although it is one of the tastiest veg.
