How to choose vegetables suitable for each type of hot pot

(Baonghean.vn) - Vegetables are indispensable in hot pot. Eating a lot of green vegetables when eating hot pot will help the body cool down, regulate the body, eliminate heat and detoxify. However, if the vegetables in hot pot are not guaranteed, you can harm your health..

Popular hot pot vegetables are very safe and beneficial for health when eating hot pot such as: water spinach, sweet cabbage, Chinese cabbage, watercress, bitter melon, lotus root, ... tofu, potatoes, carrots ... are good for the stomach and help regulate body temperature very well.

Below is some information for your reference to choose for yourself an attractive and healthy hot pot dish:

1. Use clean vegetables

In addition to rinsing several times with clean water, you should soak in salt water or vegetable washing solution.

If you are careful, you should find clean vegetables sold in many clean vegetable stores. Although the price may be higher than the vegetables outside. But you can be absolutely assured, especially when your family invites guests.

Most vegetables on the market are of unknown origin, and contain many toxic substances during the care process. Therefore, when buying vegetables, in addition to washing them many times with clean water, you should soak them in salt water or vegetable washing solution before or after washing them with clean water. This helps eliminate bacteria and toxic chemicals remaining on the vegetables.

2. Vegetables you often buy and are familiar with

Vegetables you often eat with hot pot such as water spinach, mustard greens, perilla, bitter melon, lotus root...

The vegetables you often eat with hot pot such as water spinach, mustard greens, perilla... bitter melon, lotus root, tofu, mushrooms, potatoes, carrots... are very good for health and regulate body temperature.

Not all vegetables can be easily put into hot pot. You should not try strange vegetables, unless the seller is sure that the vegetable is suitable for the hot pot you are cooking and has never had any bad reactions.

For some vegetables and mushrooms, you need to be careful before using them, such as: Some mushrooms that you do not know the name of, bean sprouts, flowers, elephant foot yam... There are some types that are very similar to vegetables, or have toxic substances. For example, elephant foot yam and taro are not much different, when eaten, it often causes an itchy throat and dry mouth.

3. Incompatible vegetables

Malabar spinach should not be eaten with beef.

Do not eat sweet potatoes and potatoes together. In many cases, eating them together can lead to indigestion, stomachache, and digestive disorders.

Malabar spinach should not be eaten with beef as it leads to poor digestion. People with constipation will have even more difficulty digesting it.

For seafood hotpot, you should not eat shrimp, clams, snails with bitter melon, tomatoes... or foods containing a lot of vitamin C, which is very dangerous.

4. Some accompanying vegetables suitable for each type of hot pot:

Chicken and duck hotpot goes well with water spinach, mugwort...

Chicken hotpot:Along with green vegetables, water spinach, enoki mushrooms, banana blossoms, fig flowers... there is also a very good vegetable to eat with it, mugwort. Not only is it good for your health and detoxifies many toxins, mugwort is very fragrant when used with hot pot.

Water spinach is the main vegetable of duck hotpot.

Duck hotpot:Water spinach is also the main vegetable for many hot pot dishes. People often only keep the water spinach stems and can add more Vietnamese coriander for more aroma.

Snail hotpot cannot lack chopped perilla leaves.

Snail hotpot:Vegetables eaten with snail hotpot cannot lack chopped perilla leaves and split water spinach. In addition, beef, pig's ear, and beans are also suitable side dishes for this dish.

Crab hotpot would not be complete without thinly sliced ​​banana blossom.

Crab hotpot: Can be eaten with vegetables but must have raw vegetables, especially thinly sliced ​​banana flowers soaked in white salt water.

There are many other types of vegetables for you to choose from, but it is important to wash the vegetables thoroughly. And you should not choose vegetables that are too strange. Besides, if you eat hot pot outside, you should choose restaurants that ensure food hygiene and safety, are reputable and trustworthy. Avoid choosing hot pot restaurants on the sidewalk, which do not have a place to wash vegetables safely.

Thu Tra

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