A Dish with Meat and a Vegetable – Doubles the Health Benefits!

Nowadays, living standards have improved, and most people eat a full meal every time. However, eating too much meat can easily make people feel greasy and affect their appetite.

Especially as the weather gradually warms up, eating a lot of meat sometimes makes people feel nauseous.

In fact, every type of meat has a perfect vegetable pairing. When cooked together, it’s the best accompaniment for a meal. As the saying goes, ‘Clothes depend on attire, horses depend on saddles, and meat depends on good dishes’ – that’s the truth.

Today, the editor will introduce several common meat’s ‘golden pairings’ to you!

Pork + White Cabbage

Pork, most people basically eat it every day.

From a nutritional perspective, it can provide us with a lot of protein; rich in B vitamins (especially B12), as well as blood-colored iron and other trace elements such as copper, zinc, and manganese.

However, it’s a matter of fact that eating too much pork can easily make people feel greasy. At this time, pairing it with the sweet and refreshing white cabbage can dispel this greasiness.

White cabbage, a common home-cooked vegetable, can be stir-fried, braised, or stewed, and is very versatile. Although white cabbage is slightly cold, when cooked with pork, the flavor becomes sweet and mellow, and it’s delicious and warming for the stomach.

As for how to cook these two together, the editor doesn’t need to teach you!

Chicken + Mushrooms

Chicken contains abundant vitamins (such as A, E, B1, B2, C), as well as iron, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, zinc, etc.

From a Chinese medical perspective,Chicken is sweet and warm in taste, which can warm the middle, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish blood, strengthen the kidneys, and replenish essence. It is particularly suitable for anemic or deficient-yin women, children with poor eyesight, elderly people with weak bodies, and people with chronic illness.While chicken and mushrooms are paired, mushrooms, a super flavorful and delicious ingredient, are a perfect match for chicken.

In this, the editor recommends a nourishing porridge.

Sha Jiang Chicken Porridge

Ingredients:

A piece of chicken breast, rice, glutinous rice, mushrooms, ginger, scallion, carrots, vegetable oil, salt, chicken broth, pepper all to tasteMethod:

First, boil water and add washed rice and glutinous rice to start cooking porridge.

• Cut the chicken breast into minced meat, put it into a container, pour in a little vegetable oil and a little salt, add water to adjust and set aside. (If the chicken mince is not added with water and oil, it will form a mass when put into boiling water, it must be adjusted beforehand.)
• Cut the soaked mushrooms and carrots into diced, and slice ginger, and chop scallion for garnish.
• When the porridge is about 30 minutes, add the mushroom grains and carrot grains, ginger slices, stir well, then reduce the heat to medium-low.
• When the rice is in bloom, add the minced chicken and continue to cook until very thick. Add salt, vegetable oil, chicken broth, pepper to adjust the seasoning, and sprinkle scallion at the end.
• Nutritional Review:

This porridge is flavorful, the combination of mushrooms and chicken is harmonious, and the porridge is thick and smooth, which is both heartwarming and nourishing.Lamb + Radish

Lamb, is also a meat that appears on the dining table from time to time.

It is not only delicious and tender, but also has a good health effect. From a Chinese medical perspective, lamb can invigorate the vital energy, replenish essence and blood, dispel cold, treat lung deficiency, restore labor and exhaustion, and is a medicinal and edible meat.

However, it is well known that lamb is quite dry. Therefore,

When cooking lamb, it is recommended to add cold ingredients such as radish, lotus root, or bamboo shoot to reduce the ‘dampness’ of the lamb.In this, the editor strongly recommends radish. Because it is a home-cooked ingredient that is not only delicious and cheap, but also promotes intestinal transit.

As usual, the editor recommends a therapeutic recipe.

Lamb and Radish Soup

Ingredients:

Radish, lamb or lamb ribs, scallion, ginger, cooking wine, saltMethod:

• Cut the radish into chunks, mince ginger and scallion for seasoning;
• Place a sand pot, put lamb ribs into the pot for braising;
• First, bring to a boil, remove foam, add cooking wine and salt, then reduce the heat and simmer until the radish is tender.
• Nutritional Review:

Lamb is warm in nature, but when paired with radish, it becomes more balanced, supplementing without causing dryness; and radish also helps to clear the channels, so it is very effective in improving intestinal transit.—END—

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