At the end of the year, no food is more suitable for the current season than hot pot. The steaming bottom of the pot, rich and delicious side dishes, and eating hot pot with relatives and friends are really a great enjoyment.
How to eat hot pot in order to be healthy and live up to the delicious taste? Today, Dr. Clove will talk with everyone about the healthy eating method of hot pot.
Selecting the bottom of the pot
Best Recommendation: Clear Soup Pot Bottom
The representative of the clear soup pot bottom is the old Beijing hot pot. This kind of pot bottom has very little fat, and what is rinsed out is the original taste of the ingredients, which is regarded as the conscience recommendation of healthy hot pot.
Best Popularity: Butter Pot Bottom
Butter chafing dish is very fragrant, but it is fragrant because of its high fat content. This kind of chafing dish will have a thick layer of grease on the surface when it cools down. This kind of chafing dish is no problem to satisfy your cravings occasionally, but don’t eat it too often, it is better not to eat it more than once a week.
In particular, we should remind everyone that the white soup in the mandarin duck pot in many hotpot restaurants is not [clear soup pot]. This milky white pot bottom is usually based on bone soup, which tastes fresh and fragrant, but its fat content is not low.
Choose dip
Choosing the right dip is the finishing touch for hot pot.
Although choosing and matching dips is largely a personal preference. However, we can also talk to you from the perspective of health.
Sesame paste and peanut butter are rich in calcium, iron, vitamin E and other nutrients, and the taste is fragrant, smooth and rich. It is really a wonderful hot pot dip. The only disadvantage is that it is high in calories. People who need to lose weight are advised to eat less.
Relatively speaking, water-based dips such as soy sauce have lower calories. Adding shallot and shredded ginger is a delicious and healthy choice of chafing dish dips, and it is also more suitable for seafood, a fresh ingredient.
The main ingredients of oily dips such as sesame oil and chili oil are almost all oil. A little bit of oil can enhance aroma in the dip, but if you add too much, it will easily become fat on your body.
In general, there is a principle for dipping: don’t be too salty.
Too salty dip contains a lot of sodium, which not only increases the risk of hypertension, but also easily covers the original taste of the food itself. Especially for seafood with fresh and sweet taste, it is simply a waste of time to eat only salty taste!
There is also a principle for eating dip: just dip it a little, not too much.
After all, we’re here for hot pot, not dip, right?
Choose a beverage
How can you eat hot pot without something to drink?
Beer and carbonated drinks are the drinks with the highest ordering rate in hotpot restaurants. But in fact, wine and carbonated drinks are the notorious next choice in the beverage industry.
However, if you are allowed to sacrifice all your appetite and drink only plain boiled water, many people may shout [this life has what significance].
There is a famous saying in nutrition: there is no unhealthy food, only unhealthy eating methods.
Therefore, if you especially love beer, drink less, 1 or 2 bottles are enough; If you especially love Coke, choose sugar-free Coke.
In addition, for the sake of your stomach, don’t drink too cold drinks.
Let’s have some staple food + vegetables first.
Hey, someone wants to ask, shouldn’t you rinse meat first when eating hot pot? The staple food should be eaten last.
This is actually very unhealthy! If you are hungry, you can easily eat too much meat at once. Too much meat means that fat is easy to exceed the standard. The correct order is to eat starchy staple food and vegetables to cushion your stomach.
Recommended staple foods: potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams
When it comes to staple food, don’t just think about rice or noodles. Potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are rich in starch, can not only meet our need for satiety, but also contain much more vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber than white rice. More importantly, the flour and glutinous taste of these foods is really suitable for cooking hot pot!
Vegetable Recommendation: Vegetables should be selected according to personal taste. It is best to be fresh, diverse and in sufficient quantity.
If it must be recommended, greener vegetables have higher nutritional value, such as spinach, chrysanthemum, lettuce, broccoli and coriander (the author is a philanthropic person…)
In addition, wax gourd and radish, vegetables with strong satiety and low calories, are also excellent.
Finally, it’s time to eat meat.
Recommended: fish, shrimp, seafood, thin beef/mutton slices, tripe
Fish, shrimp and seafood are generally high in protein and low in fat, but you must choose fresh ones. Thin cut lean beef/mutton tastes tender and smooth after rinsing, which is a good choice for iron supplement. Mao Du is the stomach of cattle, with protein content no less than meat, but fat content less than 2%, crisp and delicious in taste, which is sincerely recommended to everyone.
Eat in moderation: fat cattle, fat sheep rolls (fat content is 30%), meat slices with beautiful patterns, meatballs, fish balls, luncheon meat, sausage
The fat content of fat cow and sheep rolls is almost 30%. The beautiful white patterns on the meat are actually fat. Although the fat content of meatballs is invisible, the fat content of delicious meatballs is not low. Therefore, please pay attention to the appropriate amount when eating these meat.
In addition, luncheon meat and sausage, which are processed meat products, have just been blacklisted by WHO for carcinogenesis some time ago. It is recommended to eat less.
Don’t forget bean products + mushroom
Bean products are a good thing, rich in high-quality protein and calcium. < < Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents > > recommend eating 30-50 g of bean products every day. Most Chinese people do not eat enough bean products, so don’t you hurry to seize hot pot as a good opportunity to eat a variety of ingredients?
Recommendation of bean products: tofu, frozen tofu, tofu skin
Small reminder: Bean bubbles and oil bean skins are fried bean products with relatively higher fat and calories. Although the taste is good, don’t be greedy.
Mushroom Recommendation: Lentinus edodes, Pleurotus ostreatus, Flammulina velutipes… are all good. If you choose obstacles, let the mushroom platter help you.