As the famous saying goes: there is no one hot pot that cannot be solved, and if there is, it is two meals.
In the north and south, hot pot is probably the most widely traveled dish.
To eat heavy bites, there are nine palace grid spicy pots; to eat health, there is Shunde porridge bottom hot pot; no meat and no joy, beef and mutton shabu non-stop; love vegetarian, all kinds of green vegetables and tofu can be selected.
Across the north and south, across the east and west, the hot pot everywhere is a faction of its own, especially in the winter when the cold wind is raging, three or five friends sit in a circle, one person and one chopstick, permeated with steaming water vapor, you come and go, shabu-shabu!
Although the hot pot is good, but eating hot pot also has a certain health attention, otherwise it is a little happy to eat a sick body carefully.
How to eat hot pot to be more at ease?
First, cook the food thoroughly
Some people, in pursuit of a stimulating or fresh taste, start eating food after blanching it in a pot.
But many meats contain a lot of bacteria as well as parasitic eggs. If the time of shabu-shabu is too short, these bacteria and harmful substances can not be killed, and it is easy to have abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms after eating.
In general, thin slices of meat need to be blanched for more than 1 minute, and can not be eaten until the color of the slices changes from bright red to off-white.
If the thickness of the slices is thicker, you need to rinse them for a little longer and wait until the slices are cooked before eating.
Especially for people who are "meatless and unhappy", you must eat some vegetables when eating hot pot. Vegetables can not only replenish the vitamins needed in the body, but also relieve the greasy feeling when eating hot pot.
Second, don't put in too much food
Most people have a common problem when cooking hot pot, that is, they pour a lot of vegetables and meat into the pot.
This can easily lead to various foods crowding each other in the pot, and some of the more delicate foods will be squeezed and then deposited to the bottom of the pot to form a paste.
If there is too much paste in the pot, it will directly affect the overall taste, and it is easy to produce some substances that are not conducive to good health. Therefore, when cooking the hot pot, you must put less food to ensure that the space in the pot can continue to put other foods.
Third, it cannot be eaten immediately after cooking
Although some foods in the hot pot can be eaten after being blanched for a few minutes, the temperature of the food after scalding must exceed the temperature acceptable to the mouth and tongue.
And after the ingredients are blanched, some spicy seasonings will certainly be added, if the mouth is stimulated for a long time, it is easy to induce various oral diseases, and even esophageal cancer.
Therefore, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and the same is true for hot pot.
Fourth, try to drink as little as possible from the hot pot soup base
The delicious hot pot soup base is a delicious taste that many people can't resist, but the base of the hot pot contains a lot of animal fat and spicy and stimulating spices.
Drinking a large amount of hot pot soup base will not only stimulate the human stomach, resulting in stomach damage, but also easy to cause high blood pressure and the occurrence of various chronic diseases.
The most important thing is that the hot pot soup tastes mellow and delicious, but the purine inside is also quite high, for gout and high uric acid patients, it is better to drink less.
Fifth, the spiciness is best controlled
Many people like to eat the spicy hot pot soup base. However, if you eat too irritatingly, it is easy to have adverse reactions such as fire and diarrhea, which is ultimately because the food eaten is too stimulating.
And most butter hot pots have a high fat content, and occasionally there is not much problem in relieving hunger, but don't eat too often.
Of course, the white soup of the Mandarin duck pot in many hot pot shops is not a clear soup pot, and the bottom of this kind of pot is mostly made of bone broth as raw materials, and the taste is indeed fresh and mellow, but the fat content is not low!
Sixth, be careful not to be too salty in the dipping sauce
You know, in order for the hot pot to become delicious, the most important thing is to have a good dipping sauce.
Although everyone can choose their favorite dipping sauce, it is still necessary to remind you that some spices need special attention---
Sauces such as sesame paste, peanut butter, etc. are more fat and higher in calories; and the main ingredients such as sesame oil, chili oil, etc. are oil, which can be slightly added to Titian, but it is recommended not to add too much.
And like soy sauce, oyster sauce, bean paste, soybean sauce, etc., this kind of sauce contains more sodium, in addition to increasing the risk of high blood pressure, it will also be sad, leg, bone and other hazards.
Therefore, for the choice of dipping sauce, you can actually choose some natural condiments, such as adding a little balsamic vinegar, and then some garlic paste, millet pepper and so on.
In a word---- just dip it a little, don't eat too much!
After all, we eat hot pot, not dipping sauce, right?