Low-fat and delicious meal plans for obese patients with fatty liver: from refreshing cold dishes to nutritious meal replacement porridge

Country-Style Mixed Beef Ingredients: 100g tender beef, appropriate amounts of spinach, celery, carrot, and cucumber. Instructions: 1. Slice the beef thinly and chop the vegetables. No blanching is needed. If you don't like raw vegetables, you can blanch them briefly in hot water and remove them as desired, as this dish aims for a refreshing texture. 2. Add some sugar, vinegar, a little salt, and mustard oil, and mix well.

Vegetable Jelly Ingredients: 2 chicken carcasses, 120g carrots, 5-6 onions, 5 button mushrooms, 40g peas, 5 asparagus lettuce leaves, 1 small bunch of bok choy, 150g green beans, 100g ham, 100g ground beef, 8 egg whites, 2 tablespoons tomato sauce, 15g agar-agar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorn powder. Instructions: 1. First, make the stock. Place water in a pot on the stove, add chicken carcasses, carrots, and onions. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 40-50 minutes. Strain the broth. 2. In a separate pot, add salt, carrots, onions, peas and pea pods, and button mushrooms. Cook until tender. Blanch the asparagus lettuce, bok choy, and green bean segments in boiling water. Mix the ground beef, chopped carrots, onions, egg whites, tomato sauce, salt, and stock together. Pour this mixture back into the original stock pot. Add the agar-agar, which has been dissolved in warm water, while stirring. 3. Take a container, cool it with ice water, add a little agar-agar to solidify the bottom, then pour in the vegetable agar-agar mixture. Freeze for 1-2 hours, then remove and cut into pieces. Expert tip: Rapeseed can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and is used to treat boils and erysipelas. Rapeseed contains a large amount of carotene and vitamin C, which helps enhance the body's immunity.

Five-Color Cold Noodles Recipe: 1. Cut pork into strips, stir-fry until cooked, and set aside. Then, cut cold noodles, cucumber, dried tofu, carrot, soaked wood ear mushrooms, and red radish into strips and arrange them on a plate. The arrangement can be customized to your liking. 2. Add appropriate amounts of salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar, then sprinkle minced garlic on top. Finally, top with the previously stir-fried pork strips. Expert Tip: Cold noodles are mainly composed of carbohydrates, and also contain small amounts of protein, vitamins, and minerals. They are characterized by their smooth texture and chewy consistency. They can help stimulate appetite in patients.

Preparation of Plum Extract Salad: 1. Place chicken in a pot, add wine, and cook until done. 2. Wash and chop cucumber, shred celery, mix plum extract with salad dressing, and dilute with wine. 3. Arrange lettuce on a plate, pour in plum extract, cucumber, and celery, and mix well. Expert Tip: Chicken is especially suitable for those with weak constitutions, recovering from illness, or postpartum. It can be used to treat weakness, night sweats, spleen deficiency diarrhea, diabetes, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and seminal emission.

Barbecue Ham Recipe: 8 slices of round ham, 3 scallions, 1 tomato, 1 cup yogurt, 100g cheese, a little cilantro, 2g salt, 1g pepper. Instructions: 1. Wash the scallions, cut them into 10cm sections, then slice them lengthwise. 2. Wash the tomato and slice it. 3. Place the scallions between two slices of ham. Arrange the ham and tomato evenly on a plate, sprinkle with yogurt, cheese, cilantro, salt, and pepper. Microwave for 15 minutes. Expert Tip: The fat content of milk is generally 3%–5%. After fermentation, the fatty acids in milk can increase by twice compared to raw milk. These changes make yogurt easier to digest and absorb, and improve the utilization rate of various nutrients.

Recipe for Cold Black Moss Salad: 200g black moss, 50g green garlic shoots, 50g water bamboo shoots, 2g salt, 1g MSG, 1g ground pepper, a little sesame oil. Preparation Method: 1. Soak the black moss in warm water until softened, then steam until cooked. 2. Finely shred the green garlic shoots and water bamboo shoots, lightly salt them, arrange them on a plate with the black moss, sprinkle with MSG and ground pepper, mix well, and drizzle with sesame oil before serving. Expert Tips: Black moss has high medicinal value. It is neutral in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of calming the liver and suppressing yang, clearing the intestines and stopping diarrhea. It can clear heat and detoxify, resolve phlegm and stop coughing, cool the blood and improve eyesight, and promote urination. It can treat rickets, dysentery, hypertension, bronchitis, nosebleeds, malnutrition, and many other diseases.

Spicy Lettuce Leaves Recipe: 500g tender lettuce leaves, 70g dried red chili peppers, 4g salt, 5g soy sauce, 5g vinegar, 2g MSG, 10g sesame oil, 2g Sichuan peppercorns, 10g minced ginger. Preparation Method: Expert Tip: Lettuce contains 27 times more potassium than sodium, which helps promote urination and maintain fluid balance, offering significant benefits for patients with high blood pressure and heart disease.

Preparation method for water chestnut and wood ear mushrooms: 1. Soak wood ear mushrooms in cold water, then drain. 2. Wash and peel water chestnuts, then crush them with a knife. 3. Heat oil in a wok until it reaches 70% of its smoking point. Add the wood ear mushrooms and water chestnuts simultaneously and stir-fry. Add soy sauce, sugar, and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, thicken with cornstarch slurry, and serve. Expert tip: Water chestnuts are sweet, slightly cold, and non-toxic. They have the effects of warming the middle energizer, replenishing qi, clearing heat, stimulating appetite, and resolving phlegm.

Oatmeal Porridge Recipe: 1. Place oatmeal in a pot, add water, and bring to a boil. Stir and cook until soft. 2. Add milk and oatmeal to make porridge. Consume once daily for breakfast. Expert Tip: This porridge has lipid-lowering and weight-loss effects, suitable for obese individuals, those with hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and healthy individuals for daily health maintenance.

Lotus Leaf Pork Ingredients: 8 lotus leaves, 500g pork, 100g rice flour, 15g shredded scallions and ginger, 5g soy sauce, 0.5g MSG, 19g Shaoxing wine, 5g cinnamon, 2.5g star anise, 2g Sichuan peppercorns, 500g chicken broth. Preparation: 1. Cut the pork into small cubes. Wash and cut the lotus leaves into small pieces. 2. Marinate the pork with the seasonings for half an hour, then add the rice flour and chicken broth and mix well. 3. Wrap the pork in lotus leaves, tie with string, place each piece in a bowl, and steam for 1 hour. Serve as a side dish.

Braised Shiitake Mushrooms with Pine Nuts Ingredients: 400g rehydrated shiitake mushrooms, 100g pine nuts, 10g cornstarch, 25g Sichuan peppercorn oil, 30g sesame oil, 200g vegetable broth, 10g Shaoxing wine, 3g salt, 2g MSG, 5g soy sauce, 15g ginger juice. Preparation Method: 1. Slice the shiitake mushrooms and blanch them in boiling water. 2. Remove the skin from the pine nuts, fry them briefly in oil, then add the shiitake mushrooms, salt, ginger juice, Shaoxing wine, MSG, and vegetable broth. Simmer until the flavors are absorbed, then thicken with cornstarch. Expert Tip: This dish is cooling and diuretic, making it ideal for elderly or obese individuals to consume in summer.

Ingredients for Shiitake Mushroom and Winter Melon Strips: 500g winter melon, 100g rehydrated shiitake mushrooms, 10g each of sliced ​​scallions and garlic, 4g salt, 2g MSG, 10g cornstarch, 200g soybean sprout broth, 25ml peanut oil. Preparation Method: 1. Peel the winter melon, remove the seeds and pith, and cut into strips; wash the shiitake mushrooms, remove the stems, and cut into strips. 2. Blanch the winter melon strips in boiling water until just cooked through, then drain. 3. Heat peanut oil in a wok, sauté the sliced ​​scallions and garlic until fragrant, add the winter melon strips and shiitake mushroom strips, season with salt and MSG, add the soybean sprout broth, simmer until flavorful, thicken with cornstarch slurry, drizzle with sesame oil, stir well, and serve. Expert Tip: This dish strengthens the spleen and stomach, replenishes deficiencies, and promotes weight loss; suitable for obesity. Regular consumption of winter melon can not only supplement the various nutritional needs of patients with liver disease, but also help clear damp-heat and reduce jaundice in patients with acute hepatitis of the damp-heat type. It also has a certain diuretic and swelling-reducing function for patients with cirrhosis and ascites in the later stages of hepatitis, and the effect is better when using winter melon peel.

Hawthorn and Tangerine Peel Tea Ingredients: 25g hawthorn, 5g tangerine peel, 2g black tea. Decoct the above three ingredients in water, or steep in boiling water for 15 minutes. Drink one dose daily, divided into three servings. Expert advice: This tea lowers lipids and aids digestion, suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia and obesity.

Green Plum and Bitter Tea Ingredients: 2 green plums, 1g bitter tea, 3g green tea. Preparation: Place all three ingredients in a cup, pour boiling water over them, cover and steep for 5 minutes. Dosage: 1 dose daily, drink frequently. Expert Tips: This tea clears heat and detoxifies, promotes saliva production and relieves cough, lowers lipids and aids weight loss; suitable for obesity and those with sore throat.

Braised Chicken Strips with Kelp Ingredients: 400g kelp, 200g chicken breast, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp cornstarch, 300g red bell pepper, 2 scallions, a small piece of ginger, MSG to taste, 1 tbsp cornstarch slurry. Instructions: 2. Cut the chicken breast into strips, season with salt, MSG, and cornstarch, blanch briefly, and set aside. 3. Heat a little oil in a pan, sauté chopped scallions and ginger until fragrant, add broth, then add all the main ingredients and simmer for 3 minutes. Season to taste, then thicken with cornstarch slurry. Expert Tips: Kelp is salty and cold in nature, and has the effects of softening and dispersing nodules, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma, promoting bowel movement and urination, and lowering blood pressure and lipids. It is suitable for carbuncles, difficulty urinating, edema, asthma, and hypertension.

Jadeite Golden Necklace Ingredients: 3 small cucumbers, 20g cabbage, 20g dried shrimp, 3g salt, 5g minced garlic, 3g sugar, 2g MSG, 4g soy sauce, 5g vinegar, and a suitable amount of sesame oil. Preparation Method: 1. Grate the cucumbers, add a little salt and stir, then drain. 2. Soak the cabbage in cold boiled water until soft, then cut into 4cm pieces. 3. Soak the dried shrimp in cold boiled water until soft. Mix the above three main ingredients together, add a suitable amount of soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, MSG, and a little minced garlic, and mix well. Expert Tips: Lowers lipids and aids weight loss, benefits the kidneys and strengthens essence. Suitable for all types of fatty liver.

Apple and Corn Porridge Ingredients: 2 apples, 50g cornstarch, 100g carrots, 20g honey, milk as needed. Instructions: 1. Wash the apples, peel and core them, then cut them into small pieces. 2. Cut the carrots into small pieces and blend them with the cornstarch and milk in a juicer. 3. If the juice is too thick, add some water to dilute it. Put the honey in a cup, pour in some of the juice and stir until dissolved and smooth. Then pour in the remaining juice and stir well. Expert Tips: Apples are sweet, sour, and neutral in nature, slightly salty, and non-toxic. They have the effects of quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and harmonizing the stomach and relieving nausea.