can you fry foods with olive oil?

Question

i wanted to make spring rolls, but i dont want it to be too fatty. i hear olive oil is alot healthier, but someone told me you cannot use it to fry things. is this true?

Answer 1

You should be able to use olive oil to fry things, very easily. I guess it's harder to deep fry stuff, but you can still do it. Just make sure you fry at the smoking point of the oil, and don't try to get it to the boiling point, which is 570 F. It catches on fire at 600 F so yeah, that'd be a bad idea.

Answer 2

IT'S TRUE THAT OLIVE OIL IS HEALTHIER COMPARED TO ANY OTHER COOKING OIL.


Absolutely you can fry foods (such as fish, spring roll, meat etc.) using olive oil.

It's the healthies and non-cholesterol oil. It's recommended by doctors to be the oil used by those ones with heart disease.

I use it all the time since I live for the last 12 years here in Europe.

It can be expensive but it's safe and healthier compared to other types of oil.

My advice for you when you fry spring roll: don't fry deep in oil, you can fry food with just right amount of oil not deep fry.
I do home-made spring rolls and I have always used olive oil to fry it, no problem.

Answer 3

I think you misunderstand.

All oils - olive, canola, peanut, and whatever else - are 100% fat. They all have the same amount of calories, too - about 120 calories per tablespoon.

The thing is that different oils are different *kinds* of fat.

Extra Virgin olive oil is one of the healthiest kinds of oil you can use. It is a monounsaturated fat that helps keep bad cholesterol down and good cholesterol up. It also, in my opinion, makes foods taste much better than other oils.

You can use olive oil for just about anything you'd use other oils for, including frying. The only suggestion I would give is to use a regular vegetable oil or a weaker olive oil for baking desserts, because it is not as likely to affect taste.

Answer 4

Olive oil can smoke if you heat it too high, so if you use it, you want to be careful or you will ruin all that olive oil!

I use it all the time to pan-fry stuff, though. I just make sure the heat is on medium. I have used it to fry springrolls in the pan, but I used frozen springrolls, so it isn't perfect -- the middles are cold while the outsides can burn.

Instead, I grease a baking tray with a tablespoon of olive oil (or sesame oil), roll the spring rolls on the tray to coat slightly, then stick in a 400F/200C oven for 10 to 12 minutes. They come out golden and crispy, and hot through and through! Not quite as good as deep-fat-fried spring rolls . . . but let's be frank. Deep-fat-frying is an art (it's easy to get soggy or burned rolls), it's dangerous, and it's not good for your arteries. The oven method is pretty fool-proof, not nearly as dangerous, and produces a good product for just a little bit of fat.

Answer 5

You can use olive oil to fry just about anything. I don't think you'd want to use it in a deep fryer though. Maybe you could try baking them instead? Or even spray with an olive oil spray and bake them, so you still get the fried part with out deep frying.

Answer 6

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Olive oil is not to be used for deep-frying. Deep-frying food is not healthy no matter what type of oil you use; there's simply too much fat being added to the food. Olive oil is fresh-squeezed from virgin olives and imported from Italy and Greece, meaning this is is not a cost-effective option for high volume oil usage. National chain restaurants don't EVER use lard for deep frying. That practice went out decades ago. Lard is made from pig fat, is high in trans fats, and is rarely used anywhere. Corn, canola, and vegetable oils are what restaurants use in their fryers and are trans fat free. Chinese restaurants use sesame and peanut oils in preparation, but not for frying. Again, too expensive.

Answer 7

Olive oil has a relatively low smoke-point so you can't really get it as hot as it needs to be. At the lower temperature the spring rolls just soak up the oil. And while olive oil is relatively healthy, it's still 100% FAT! (Not to mention the spring rolls will taste like olive oil. Which might actually not be too bad!)

Peanut oil is the best for frying because you can get it good and HOT. And it has almost no flavor of its own.

Answer 8

Yes you can use olive oil for anything like frying,
baking, in salads. I use it all the time because it's a lot healthier then most other oils that you cook with. good luck and best wishes

Answer 9

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can you fry foods with olive oil?
i wanted to make spring rolls, but i dont want it to be too fatty. i hear olive oil is alot healthier, but someone told me you cannot use it to fry things. is this true?

Answer 10

I only fry food in olive oil. I think it has a better taste, plus it fries faster and the food comes out crunchier then in something like vegetable oil.