Vinegar Cucumber Salad
Ingredients: 5 tender cucumbers, vinegar, salt, sugar, MSG, and sesame oil (amounts as needed).
Instructions: Wash the cucumbers and cut them into long strips. Marinate for 20 minutes, drain the excess water, and mix well with salt, MSG, vinegar, sesame oil, and a little sugar. Serve as a cold dish.
Benefits: Clears heat, promotes diuresis, and aids in weight loss. Suitable for simple obesity.
Lotus Leaf Porridge
Ingredients: 1 fresh lotus leaf (about 200g), 100g glutinous rice, and sugar (as needed).
Instructions: Rinse the rice and cook it with water to make porridge. When it is almost cooked, wash the fresh lotus leaf and cover it on top of the porridge. Steep for about 15 minutes, remove the lotus leaf, and the porridge will turn a light green color. Cook for a little longer and then serve. Add sugar to taste before eating.
Benefits: Has the effects of clearing heat, generating body fluids, quenching thirst, and reducing fat.
Winter Melon and Coix Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 150g winter melon, 50g coix seed.
Instructions: Cut the winter melon into small pieces and cook it with the coix seed until they are well-cooked. Have it once a day as a meal.
Benefits: Strengthens the spleen, promotes diuresis, and reduces fat. Suitable for obesity and weight loss.
Three Fresh Winter Melon
Ingredients: 500g winter melon, 30g cooked ham, 25g bamboo shoots, 25g mushrooms, spring onion, MSG, salt, pepper, chicken stock, cornstarch, sesame oil, lard (amounts as needed).
Instructions: Slice the winter melon and blanch it in boiling water until it is just cooked, then remove it. Cut the cooked ham, bamboo shoots, and mushrooms into thin slices. Heat the lard in a frying pan over medium heat, add the winter melon, ham, bamboo shoots, and mushroom slices and stir-fry them. Then add chicken stock, salt, pepper, MSG, and cook until they are tender and well-flavored. Thicken the sauce with cornstarch, add spring onion, drizzle with sesame oil, and mix well before serving. Enjoy it as a side dish.
Benefits: Reduces fat and grease, strengthens muscles, and aids in weight loss. Suitable for nutritional obesity.
