Stay away from the Mid-Autumn Festival fat Chinese food 667 calories

The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day for family reunion. While appreciating the bright moon, many people also keep their mouths busy, eating moon cakes, grilled meat, and drinking beverages, unknowingly consuming a lot of calories, and by the end of the holiday, their waists and abdomens have gained some weight. In response to this, Yang Wenqing, a nutritionist at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, designed Chinese cuisine to suit the occasion. Each serving contains only 667 calories, allowing people to enjoy the holidays while staying away from obesity.

If you want to eat healthily and enjoy the flavor of Mid-Autumn Festival, you can make good use of red beans in your meals to add festive atmosphere, bake the meat in the oven instead of grilling it, use low-fat seafood instead of high-fat meat, and pair it with seasonal high-fiber vegetables to help digestion and reduce fat accumulation. As for desserts, it is recommended to eat mooncakes in moderation, and choose sugar-free tea drinks, and avoid carbonated or sugary drinks.

Honey grilled pork chops. (Photo provided by Taichung Veterans General Hospital)

1. Red bean and acacia rice (for 6 people)

• Ingredients: 180 grams of white rice, 90 grams of red beans.

• practice:

  1. Wash the red beans and soak them in water for 4 hours, then drain.

  2. Mix all the red beans and rice and put them into the rice cooker to cook.

• Nutritional analysis: Each serving contains 187 calories, 6.2 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of lipids, and 41 grams of carbohydrates.

Red bean and acacia rice. (Photo provided by Taichung Veterans General Hospital)

2. Five-flavor autumn squid (for 6 people)

• Ingredients: 300 grams of squid, 1 spoon of minced ginger, 1 spoon of minced garlic, five-flavor sauce ingredients (1 beef tomato, 1 spoon of soy sauce paste, 1 spoon of sugar, 1 spoon of green onion, 1 spoon of black vinegar), 300 grams of bean sprouts.

• practice:

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Wash the squid, cut it into flower shapes, and soak it in boiling water for about 1 minute before removing it from the water.

  2. Five-flavor sauce: Cut half of the beef tomato into small cubes, put the remaining beef tomato and five-flavor sauce ingredients into a juicer and blend them for later use.

  3. Boil the bean sprouts, place the squid on top and serve with five-spice sauce.

• Nutritional analysis: Each serving contains 68.2 grams of calories, 8.8 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of lipids, and 3.6 grams of carbohydrates.

Five flavors of autumn flowers and branches. (Photo provided by Taichung Veterans General Hospital)

3. Clam and loofah soup (for 6 people)

• Ingredients: 300g clams (including shells), 600g loofah, 1 tablespoon canola oil.

• practice:

  1. Wash the loofah, peel it, cut it into strips, blanch it until half cooked and set aside.

  2. After the clam soup is cooked, remove the shells, add the blanched half-cooked loofah, simmer until done, then add canola oil to season.

• Nutritional analysis: Each serving contains 59.8 grams of calories, 4.4 grams of protein, 2.9 grams of lipids, and 4.7 grams of carbohydrates.

Clam and loofah soup. (Photo provided by Taichung Veterans General Hospital)

4. Honey-grilled pork chops (for 6 people)

• Ingredients: 360 grams of pork tenderloin, 1 lemon, seasoning (a little wine, some soy sauce, a little five-spice powder, a little sugar), 1 spoon of salad oil.

• practice:

  1. Slice the tenderloin, pat it a few times, and marinate it with seasoning for ten minutes.

  2. Brush the marinated meat slices with oil and bake in the oven until both sides are cooked through.

• Nutritional analysis: Each serving contains 178.4 grams of calories, 13.3 grams of protein, 11.1 grams of lipids, and 3 grams of carbohydrates.

5. Miso Beauty Legs (6 servings)

• Ingredients: 6 bamboo shoots, dipping sauce (miso, sugar, a little sesame oil)

• practice:

  1. Peel off the thick outer shell of bamboo shoots, wash and blanch.

  2. After the dipping sauce is mixed evenly, dip it in an appropriate amount of dipping sauce and eat.

• Nutritional analysis: Each serving contains 22 grams of calories, 1.5 grams of protein, 0.2 grams of lipids, and 4.3 grams of carbohydrates.

Beautiful legs with miso (Photo provided by Taichung Veterans General Hospital)

6. Moon-viewing dessert: taro paste cake + pomelo + osmanthus oolong tea

• Ingredients: Taro paste cake (300g taro, 20g butter, sugar), grapefruit, osmanthus oolong tea (dried osmanthus, oolong tea)

• practice:

  1. Taro cake: Peel the taro, cut into small pieces, and steam in an electric cooker. Mix the taro paste with fresh cream, wait for the taro paste to cool down a little, then roll it into taro balls and put them into molds to press.

  2. Grapefruit: Peel the grapefruit and eat it. Each person should have about 2 pieces.

  3. Oulong tea with osmanthus: Oolong tea and dried osmanthus can be brewed with hot water.

• Nutritional analysis: Each serving contains 161.7 grams of calories, 2.2 grams of protein, 4.8 grams of lipids, and 28.8 grams of carbohydrates.