No oil stuck and no "belly" burden! Medicinal and Healthy New Year Dishes

The Spring Festival is coming, and the New Year's Eve gathering around the fire is the finale. However, New Year's dishes are always indispensable for dishes such as Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and Shredded Pork Knuckle with Bamboo Shoots. If you eat too much, you will feel greasy and there is no change, and you are afraid that it will burden the body. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Nutrition Department of the National Yang-Ming University Hospital have jointly developed a set of "medicinal New Year's dishes" to make the whole family feel warm and happy, and to eat healthily.

Longevity noodles (upper left), stewed lamb with Chinese angelica sinensis (upper right), steamed fish with Polygonum multiflorum (lower left), and roasted chicken with medicinal herbs (lower right). (Photo provided by the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Nutrition Office of Yang-Ming University Hospital)

Jiang Yuting, director of the Nutrition Department of Yangda Hospital, said that combining medicinal materials with New Year's dishes can utilize the aroma of the Chinese medicine itself to reduce the amount of soy sauce, salt and MSG added, thereby reducing sodium intake and keeping blood pressure stable. The above 10 dishes are all cooked by steaming, boiling, stewing, and baking, which can reduce the intake of excess fat.

【First dish: longevity noodles】

Effect: replenish qi and moisturize dryness

Ingredients: 4 handfuls of vermicelli, sesame oil, herbal soup with chicken stewed in Chinese guiqi

practice:

1.Cook the noodles in boiling water until done, remove and set aside.

2. Saute ginger slices with sesame oil, then add into the medicinal soup to use as a dipping sauce.

3. Serve the noodles with the dipping sauce.

【Second course: Guiqi stewed mutton】

Effect: replenish qi and warm yang

Ingredients: Guiqi stewed chicken medicine pack, 1 jin of mutton

practice:

1. First, take the Chinese Angelica dahurica and Astragalus membranaceus chicken stew and stew it to bring out the flavor.

2. Add the mutton pieces and stew together.

【Third dish: Steamed fish with Polygonum multiflorum】

Effect: Nourishing Yin and Moisturizing Dryness

Ingredients: Polygonum multiflorum medicine bag, 1 seabass

practice:

1. First, take the Polygonum multiflorum bag and stew it to bring out the flavor.

2. Thicken the soup and pour it on the fish. Place the contents of the medicine bag on the fish and steam them together.

【Dish 4: Medicinal Roast Chicken】

Effect: Activate blood circulation and promote qi circulation

Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, 6 cloves of garlic, Guiqi chicken stew medicine pack

practice:

1. Add water to the Chinese Angelica dahurica chicken stew package and boil it into broth, then cool and set aside.

2. Soak the whole chicken in broth for a day.

3. Apply the broth on the surface of the chicken, stuff the inside with medicinal food and garlic, and bake in the oven for one hour.

【Fifth course: Red yeast rice sausage】

Effect: Promote blood circulation and help digestion

Ingredients: red yeast rice sauce, half a pound of minced meat, minced garlic

practice:

1. Mix the minced meat with red yeast rice sauce, minced garlic and kaoliang wine and stir until it becomes sticky.

2. Stuff 1 into sausage casing and dry.

(Top left) Red yeast sausage, (Top right) Steamed egg with hair algae, (Bottom left) Longevity, (Bottom right) Vegetarian braised pork. (Photo provided by the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Nutrition Office of Yang-Ming University Hospital)

【Sixth course: Steamed egg with hair algae】

Effect: replenish blood and relieve fever

Ingredients: 4 eggs, 600cc broth, hair algae, shredded fish, wolfberry

practice:

1. Beat the eggs, add in the broth, mix well, sieve and set aside.

2. Steam the egg liquid for 15 minutes to make steamed eggs.

3. Add hair algae, shredded fish and wolfberry to the herbal soup of Chinese wolfberry stewed with chicken, and pour it on the steamed egg.

[The seventh path: long life]

Effect: Clears phlegm and relieves cough

Ingredients: 1 jin of mustard greens, 50g of ginkgo nuts, 10 red dates

practice:

1. Blanch the mustard greens and set aside.

2. Cook ginkgo nuts, red dates and mustard greens in broth, then thicken and serve in a plate.

【Eighth course: vegetarian braised pork】

Effect: Clears heat and promotes bowel movements

Ingredients: 1.5 catties Chinese cabbage, 2 pieces of bean curd, 50g vegetarian shredded pork, 1 handful of glass noodles, 100g vegetarian shrimp, straw mushrooms

practice:

1.Cut Chinese cabbage into sections and cook with vegetarian broth.

2. Cut bean curd into shreds, soak glass noodles and vegetarian pork until soft and add in.

3. Add vegetarian shrimps and straw mushrooms, and season with salt and white pepper.

[Ninth dish: Pork ribs stewed with medicinal herbs]

Effect: Double replenishment of qi and blood

Ingredients: 1 pound of spare ribs, medicine bag for stewing spare ribs

practice:

1. First, take the medicine bag and stew the pork ribs to bring out the flavor.

2. Add the pork ribs and stew together.

【Dish 10: Brown Sugar Purple Rice Cake】

Effect: replenish qi and improve eyesight

Ingredients: 30g brown sugar, 150g purple rice, 150g round glutinous rice, wolfberry, dried longan

practice:

1. Soak purple rice and glutinous rice in water for 1 hour.

2. Add glutinous rice to the diced longan soaked in rice wine and steam over high heat for 15 minutes.

3. Shape the glutinous rice into a ball and garnish with wolfberries.