Crazy about this pot during Chinese New Year! Low-calorie matcha soy milk hotpot without gaining weight

During the Chinese New Year, people gather around the stove to eat hotpot. Because the whole family is reunited, the mood is particularly happy. If you are not careful, you may swallow a lot of hotpot ingredients, including meat slices, fish balls, pork meatballs, bird's dumplings, duck blood, etc., which can easily exceed the calorie limit. The matcha trend has been going crazy recently, and even hotpot has caught up with the matcha craze. So how should we eat "matcha hotpot" and what is the perfect match with it? How to eat healthy and without burden?

Avoid high-calorie soup bases and hot pot trap ingredients

When eating hotpot during the Chinese New Year reunion, the first thing to do is to avoid high-calorie soup bases, especially spicy soup bases, cheese and milk soup bases, shacha soup bases, curry soup bases, mutton hotpot soup bases, etc., which all contain high-fat and high-calorie traps.

As for hot pot ingredients, what is the most worrying calorie mine? According to the National Health and Family Planning Commission's ranking of common hot pot ingredients, the top three in terms of calories are: bean curd (20 grams each, 95 calories), tofu (40 grams each, 91 calories), and rice blood cake (35 grams each, 65 calories).

In fact, processed hot pot ingredients, such as hot dogs, egg dumplings, shrimp dumplings, fish balls, fish cakes, etc., are usually high-fat foods. Of course, the calories cannot be ignored. Eating too much can easily increase blood pressure and blood lipids.

Matcha hotpot is trending: low in calories and healthy

If you don't want to feel burdened when eating hotpot, there has been a recent health craze for "matcha hotpot". Nutritionist Su Yanchen said that matcha contains catechins, which theoretically have antioxidant effects. In addition, matcha contains caffeine, which has the effect of promoting digestion. Therefore, it is suitable as a hotpot soup base. In order to enhance the taste of matcha hotpot, you may add other low-calorie ingredients to mix it together. It is a perfect hotpot dish for New Year's Eve or even in winter. The following is recommended "Matcha Mushroom Soy Milk Pot":

★【Matcha Mushroom Soy Milk Hot Pot】

Ingredients: one spoonful of matcha, 250ml of soy milk, 1 egg, king oyster mushroom, shiitake mushroom, appropriate amount of onion, appropriate amount of vegetables, a small amount of salt, appropriate amount of onion, garlic and oil.

practice:

1. Heat some oil in a pan, add onion and garlic and sauté until fragrant.

2. Add sugarcane juice, matcha and water into the pot and bring to a boil. Then add king oyster mushroom, shiitake mushroom, onion, vegetables, eggs, salt and sugarcane juice and cook together.

2. Bring to a boil, then pour in the soy milk and turn off the heat when it starts to boil slightly (do not boil for too long, otherwise the soy milk will turn into tofu pudding)

3. After removing from heat, sprinkle with chopped green onions.

【Tips】：

Nutritionist Su Yanchen said that sugarcane juice contains sugar, and those who need to control blood sugar should pay attention to the amount they consume. Matcha contains caffeine, which promotes digestion. Therefore, people with chronic diarrhea or irritable bowel syndrome should be careful not to cause more serious gastrointestinal discomfort. For those who have poor sleep quality at night, consuming too much matcha containing caffeine may also cause insomnia at night, so they must try to avoid drinking it.

There is an order for taking hot pot ingredients

In addition to choosing matcha as the main ingredient for the hot pot soup base, vegetarians can add options such as cotton tofu and wet bean skin (non-fried) to supplement the protein needs; and when choosing meat, meat eaters should try to eat white meat with lower fat content (including: chicken, duck, goose, fish, seafood) and reduce the intake of red meat (including: pork, beef, lamb). The order in which you consume hot pot ingredients is also very important. It is recommended to eat a lot of vegetables first to increase your sense of fullness, then eat seafood, and finally eat meat. Try to reduce the use of dipping sauces and eat less starch.