Junk food: Venezuelan Pepito
¡Hi steemians!
For those who can not understand what is in this dish, it is a dish that in Venezuela is called Pepito. Normally it can contain bread, scrambled eggs, minced meat, chopped chicken, chopped onion, potato chips, lettuce, alfalfa, cheese, among other ingredients plus a lot of artificial sauces such as ketchup, corn sauce, barbecue sauce, mustard, sauce of garlic, etc.
Why do we call this junk food?
- First we initially find it in street stalls.
-Second, the huge amount of sauces that contain many sugars, preservatives, dyes, fats, among other components that in no case provide quality essential nutrients only a large calorie cath. - Third, it contains fritters and the meats used are usually of very low quality.
But this changes when you choose to cook your own food at home...
In this case, it is still the same famous Pepito, but homemade, where in theory clean water is used for cooking, quality meat / chicken is used and vegetables are included. To avoid saturated fats you can cook the egg in a nonstick skillet and use natural tomato sauce (just a touch), homemade mayonnaise or guasacaca (avocado-based sauce).
All these ingredients go inside a salty bread of preference. The best option would be whole grain bread, but the truth is that if you control food well, it does not matter what bread type you choose, so there is no abuse of consumption.
Preparing this type of dishes at home it is easier to control the incorporation of all the macro and micronutrients, from the carbohydrate of the bread, the fats of the sauces and the egg, the proteins of the meat/egg/chicken, the vegetables that are good carbohydrates and provide micronutrients.
Dessert:
If you are in a meeting with friends or family (like me), from time to time you can give yourself the pleasure of eating the chocolate you so desire. Life is one and it is not eternal.
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