My hubby finally went for a health check to monitor his cholesterol levels. Although he is stick-thin, he has slightly high cholesterol. It could be due to his lifestyle or maybe inherited in his genes. The night before, I decided to cook some low cholesterol dishes for him.
It consists of celery soup, steamed fish, steamed tofu and red rice. For the celery soup, I used chicken breast (least fat content), celery, corn, carrots. For the steamed fish, I prepared it Cantonese-style i.e. steamed the fish plain, drain the fish then add hot oil, fried garlic, spring onions and soy sauce. For the steamed tofu, I steamed it, then add the black soya sauce fried together with the minced chicken breast, dried mushrooms and frozen vegetables.
When Vin came home that night, I told him about the low cholesterol dishes and he asked “Why must we cheat?!”… Hmmm… It got me thinking... Is this considered as cheating? Well, I guess it’s natural human behaviour to eat more healthy food before a health check. What do you think?
The celery soup, together with chicken breast, corn, carrot, celery. You will notice that I have removed the corn from the cobs as my hubby will only eat the corn like this...
The steamed tofu... I made too much sauce, so you can't see the tofu from this picture :p
Steamed fish with garlic... Really tastes yummy :)
According to the instructions, the red rice is to be soaked in water for 6 hours. I guess it is to soften it. But somehow, I feel that white rice is still the best. The rice rice doesn't absorb the gravy of the dishes.
Well... Healthy food often does not taste good.
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