Healthy Recipes for Patients with High Cholesterol: Soups and Egg Dishes

33. Green Bean, Sweet Potato, and Old Pigeon Soup

Ingredients: Green peas (as needed), 320g sweet potato, 1 slice of ginger, 2 old pigeons.

Preparation method: ① Soak green beans in water until soft, then wash them.

② Wash the sweet potatoes with water, peel them, and cut them into large chunks.

③ Wash the ginger with water and peel it.

④ Clean the old pigeon, remove the feathers and internal organs, put it in boiling water and boil for 10 minutes, then take it out and wash it clean.

⑤ Add water to a clay pot, bring it to a boil over high heat, then add green beans, sweet potatoes,

Add pigeon and ginger slices, and once the water boils again, reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 2 hours.

Efficacy and Indications: Pigeon meat has strong nourishing properties. It not only strengthens the body but also provides various health benefits.

It contains essential nutrients and can also strengthen the spleen and stomach, increase appetite, and improve immune function. This soup is beneficial for those with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar.

It is especially suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia.

34. Steamed Egg with Fish Fillets

Ingredients: 200g shelled eggs, 200g fresh fish fillets, 10g scallions, 10g salt.

1 gram of MSG, 15 ml of light soy sauce, 1 gram of pepper powder, and 40 ml of cooked vegetable oil.

Preparation method: ① Add 5 grams of salt and 10 ml of oil to the fish fillets and mix well.

② Beat the eggs into an egg mixture, add salt and MSG, stir well, and pour into a plate.

③ Place a steamer on the stove, pour in the egg mixture, and steam over low heat for about 7 minutes. Then add the fish slices and scallions on top.

Continue steaming for 3 minutes on top of the egg mixture, then let it sit for 2 minutes using the residual heat. Remove from the steamer, drizzle with soy sauce and oil, and sprinkle with pepper.

Add pepper powder and it's ready.

Efficacy and indications: Regularly eating eggs will not induce atherosclerosis because, although eggs contain...

It contains a relatively high amount of cholesterol, but also lecithin. Lecithin, once in the bloodstream, can break down cholesterol and fat particles.

It shrinks and keeps the blood vessels in suspension, thus preventing cholesterol and fat from depositing on the blood vessel walls and preventing...

The occurrence of atherosclerosis.

35. Stir-fried Eggs with Bok Choy

Ingredients: 1 small bunch of bok choy, 1 onion, 2 eggs, 200 ml clear broth, light seasoning

20 ml soy sauce, 20 ml cooking wine, and appropriate amount of vegetable oil.

Preparation method: ① Wash the rapeseed, blanch it in salt water, and cut it into 4-5 cm long sections.

② Slice the onion thinly, and crack the eggs into a bowl and beat them.

③ Heat oil in a wok, stir-fry the bok choy and shallots, then pour in light soy sauce, cooking wine, and broth, and simmer for a short while.

④ Pour the egg mixture into the pot while shaking it, cook until half-cooked, cover the pot, simmer for a while, and then it's ready to serve.

Efficacy and indications: Rapeseed contains carotene, although its absorption rate is extremely low, but it is similar to that found in eggs.

Combining fats and vegetable oils improves their absorption rate. The vitamin C and dietary fiber in vegetables can...

To prevent cholesterol from depositing on blood vessel walls, promote gastrointestinal motility, aid digestion and absorption, and facilitate bowel movements.

It promotes smooth bowel movements and relieves constipation symptoms.

36. Baked Eggs with Toona Sinensis

Ingredients: 5 eggs, 50g Chinese toon leaves, 80ml salad oil, 25g cornstarch, 5g salt, 5g MSG.

Preparation method: ① Finely chop the toon leaves; dilute the cornstarch with water; beat the eggs and add the diluted cornstarch.

Mix the powder, toon leaves, MSG, and salt together.

② Heat a wok, add 50 ml of oil, and when the oil is hot, reduce the heat to low.

Beat the eggs and pour them in, then cover.

Cover the pan, then pour the remaining 30 ml of oil in batches along the edge of the pan. Bake for about 10 minutes, then remove the lid.

After draining the oil, invert the eggs onto a plate and serve.

Efficacy and indications: Eggs, flavor 20

The taste of the food and the protein are slightly cold in nature, and have the functions of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.

Effects: Egg yolk, slightly toxic in nature, nourishes yin and blood, benefits essence and marrow, replenishes qi, extinguishes wind, relieves spasms, and calms the mind.

Efficacy. This product can lower cholesterol and blood lipids in patients with hyperlipidemia.