u can also try vegetable oil for frying or any indian style cooking

I use Sunflower oil,but for dishes like Avial,seasoning with coconut oil gives the flavour and some dishes like vetha kulambu,meen kulumbu and araichu vitta sambar,seasoning with gingelly oil will give the special taste and flavour.

Gingelly Oil is good to make gravies which has to last for travel and also variety rice can be made used for travel...I use Vegetable oil i have no idea about it ...Coconut oil very much high in cholestrol for sure...I heard even corn oil is good best is Canola i have all my friends using the same

Hi All Thanx a lot fo all ur efforts in sharing ur views..Finally i ended up buying Canola oil. :)

Sadhana Raveen

Types of Olive oil

Extra virgin - considered the best, least processed, comprising the oil from the first pressing of the olives.

Virgin - from the second pressing.

Pure - undergoes some processing, such as filtering and refining.

Extra light - undergoes considerable processing and only retains a very mild olive flavour.

Actually talking from a health perspective, canola oil has less saturated fat(bad fat)than Olive oil.

Canola and Olive oil are my best picks. I use extra light olive oil for simple saute and sti-fry, thalippu / talimpu / tadka and few shallow fry items too. Here is a link that you can check.

 http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=180156

 Only extra virgin olive oil is bit stinky as they stays fresh only for few months. Better not buy in bulk as they are good only with salads. As far as Indian cookings concerned, try light olive oil which you would never feel anything wierd.Peanut oil is good for deep frying. Sesame and coconut oil are good for occassional use and also suit only a few type of recipes. Hope this helps.

I have been researching about the healthy oils to use for cooking for long time. Basically you want to stay away from saturated fat since it tends to increase blood cholesterol levels. Most saturated fats tend to be solid at room temperature.
Keeping that in mind following is the order of healthiest oils.
1. Canola oil/Olive oil
2. Sesame oil
3. Peanut oil
4. Sunflower oil
5. Corn oil
6. Safflower oil
7. Coconut oil

I prefer canola oil for cooking since I don’t like the taste of olive oil when cooked. For salads and dressings you can use extra virgin olive oil.
Coconut oil is high in saturated fat(86%)which increases blood cholesterol level, heart disease etc.

Refer to this link for nutritional information regarding oils
http://www.nutristrategy.com/fatsoils.htm

coconut oil has high cholesterol..for people who live outside india, lifestyle is different with very less physical exercise,definitely when compared to our grannys.On my research about oils, canola is good for frying and extra virgin cold pressed olive oil is good for tempering,stir frying etc.. olive oil has high boiling point and so it is not suited for deep frying.

Olive oil is very good for seasoning salads, am using canola oil n sunflower oil since long back n they r good for frying n cooking, as Manoo told coconut oil will give taste n superb odor..My suggestion is sunflower n canola oil..

Gingelly oil no matter what... Thats the best....... All hail gingelly oil..................

Soya Bean oil or the sunflower oil with omega 3 smells weird... Canola ok.. Sunflower ok... I nvr tried olive oil...

Snacks taste AWESOME with coconut oil. Even Curries or any fries... But, ppl say it got high cholesterol...

Back home grand ma uses both gingelly and coconut only. They staying healthier than us still....