The stressful life of staying up late and being overworked can actually cause significant damage to your liver. Sometimes when you feel like you have "internal heat," such as having red streaks in your eyes or a flushed face, it could be a sign of a liver problem.
For liver care, there's no need to obsessively seek health supplements. The most important thing is to nourish your body through natural means. In your daily life, you can eat more tomatoes, which are quite effective for cleansing the liver.
Not only for liver protection, but if you pay more attention when cooking tomatoes, they also have skin-care and anti-cancer effects.
▍Rich Tomato Soup
Stir-fry the tomatoes in oil first; this helps dissolve and absorb the fat-soluble nutrients in tomatoes, such as lycopene. Lycopene has remarkable effects on preventing and treating prostate diseases and prostate cancer, as well as protecting the cardiovascular system, delaying skin aging, and enhancing immunity.
Recipe 1: Beef Brisket with Tomato
[Ingredients] 400g beef brisket, 600g tomatoes, 3 slices of ginger, 15ml cooking wine, 1 packet of spices, 40ml oil, 5g each of chopped green onion and ginger, 300ml beef broth, 15ml light soy sauce, 10g sugar, 4g salt, 15g cilantro.
Step 1: Cut the beef brisket into small pieces and place them in a pot with water.
Step 2: Bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, and cook for another minute. Remove the beef, rinse, and drain. In a pressure cooker, add water and beef, along with ginger slices and the spice packet. Heat over medium heat until the pressure is up, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Once done, remove the meat and set the beef broth aside.
Step 3: Wash the tomatoes, blanch them in boiling water to remove the skins, dice them, and chop the cilantro.
Step 4: Heat oil in a wok over medium heat (about 6成热). Sauté the chopped green onion and ginger until fragrant, then add the diced tomatoes and stir-fry until soft.
Step 5: Add the simmered beef, then pour in about 300ml of beef broth. Stir well and simmer over medium heat for about 25 minutes.
Step 6: Once the sauce has thickened, add light soy sauce, sugar, and salt to taste. Stir well, simmer over low heat for another 5 minutes, then turn off the heat. Garnish with cilantro.
Recipe 2: Pork Liver and Tomato Rich Soup
[Ingredients] 2 large tomatoes, a small piece of pork liver.
Step 1: Wash the tomatoes, remove the stems, and soak them in boiling water for two minutes.
Step 2: Heat oil in a wok, stir-fry the ginger and green onion until fragrant, then remove and discard them.
Step 3: Rinse the pork liver under running water, then soak it in clean water for half an hour. Take it out, slice it thinly, rinse under water until no more blood comes out, and drain. Marinate the pork liver with cooking wine, ginger shreds, green onion segments, and a little starch.
Step 4: Peel the tomatoes and cut them into small pieces.
Step 5: Pour the tomatoes into the wok and stir-fry a few times. Add half a tablespoon of sugar and stir-fry repeatedly until they become pulpy. Pour in a large bowl of water, bring to a boil, cover, and turn to low heat to simmer for 20-30 minutes to make a rich tomato soup.
Step 6: Uncover and season with salt. Turn the heat to high, add the pork liver, and wait for about half a minute until the pork liver turns pale. Turn off the heat, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and serve.
▍Clear Tomato Soup
For individuals with high blood lipids, a clear soup recipe with less oil is a better choice.
Cancer-Prevention and Liver-Protection: Healthy Ways to Eat Tomatoes
Recipe 1: Carrot and Tomato Soup
[Ingredients] 100g carrots, 150g tomatoes.
Step 1: Clean the carrots, peel them. Blanch the tomatoes in hot water, peel them, and then blend them into juice in a blender.
Step 2: Use a blender to grind the carrots into a puree.
Step 3: Clean and peel the carrots, then use a blender to grind them into a puree.
Step 4: Pour a little broth into a pot, add the carrot puree and tomato juice, and bring to a boil over high heat. Turn off the heat once cooked through.
Recipe 2: Tomato, Corn, and Pork Liver Soup
[Ingredients] 200g pork liver, 2 tomatoes, 1 corn cob, a small piece of ginger, 1 tablespoon white vinegar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon starch, 1 teaspoon cooking wine, 800ml water.
Step 1: Use a knife to remove any sinew from the surface of the pork liver. Rinse and cut into thin slices. In a large bowl, mix white vinegar and water, add the sliced pork liver, and soak for 20 minutes.
Step 2: After 20 minutes, discard the soaking water and rinse the pork liver twice with clean water, then drain. Place in a bowl, add cooking wine, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and starch. Mix well and marinate for 10 minutes.
Step 3: Wash the tomatoes and cut them into 5cm pieces. Peel and shred the ginger. Wash the corn and cut it into large pieces.
Step 4: Place the corn, ginger, water, and half of the tomatoes in a pot. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
Step 5: Then add the remaining half of the tomato pieces and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
Step 6: Stir well, turn the heat to high, and slide in the pork liver. Bring to a boil, and turn off the heat after about 1 minute when the pork liver has changed color.