Eating meat this way for a balanced and non-greasy summer diet.

Introduction: Many people say that eating meat in the summer is too greasy and they don't want to eat it, preferring lighter vegetables and fruits. However, you can't be so willful, as the nutrients in meat are not found in many vegetables and fruits. So, you still need to eat meat. How can you eat it without it being greasy while maintaining a balanced diet? Rabbit and fish are good choices. Moreover, for slightly greasier meats, pairing them appropriately can cut the grease.

First, you can choose the leanest meats.

Among various meats, chicken has a fat content of 9.4%, duck 19.7%, pork 37%, beef 4.2%, lamb 4.1%, rabbit 2.2%, and fish 1-3%. Rabbit and fish have relatively low fat content. Therefore, in the summer, you can eat more fish and rabbit.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, rabbit meat is considered cool in nature and sweet in taste, with the effects of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, quenching thirst and strengthening the spleen, and cooling the blood to relieve heat. Rabbit meat is delicious and highly nutritious. The fat and cholesterol content in rabbit meat is lower than in all other meats, and the fat is mostly unsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, rabbit meat has health-preserving, beautifying, and nourishing effects. So, on a scorching summer day, eating some rabbit meat is a good idea.

Dried Fruit and Green Asparagus Rabbit Meat

Fish: Summer is absolutely the "golden season" for eating fish. Fish protein content is as high as about 18%, with good composition and very rich and comprehensive amino acid content. The unsaturated fatty acids rich in fish can reduce cholesterol concentration in the blood and prevent thrombosis, acting as a protector for the heart and blood vessels. In the hot summer, you can choose to steam or stew fish.

Second, you can pair them with suitable vegetarian ingredients. As long as the pairing is good, it can not only cut the grease but also increase the nutritional value.

Stewed Pork Ribs with Corn

Pork ribs have a high fat content and might feel a bit greasy, but when stewing pork ribs, adding a few sweet ears of corn not only increases nutrition but also helps to cut the grease, making the soup more delicious and refreshing.

Kelp and Corn Pork Rib Soup

Stewing Duck Soup with Winter Melon.

Traditional medicine believes that ducks are aquatic fowl. Because they grow by the water, their meat is slightly sweet and salty, with a cool nature, and has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. When stewing old duck, adding winter melon and other soup ingredients can create a meat-and-vegetable combination that provides complementary nutrition. Additionally, winter melon peel has high medicinal value, so do not peel it when making the soup; just wash it clean. Winter melon paired with duck meat can give the soup a slightly sweet taste. In summer, when there is internal damp-heat, eating winter melon and old duck soup can tonify deficiency, relieve summer heat, and nourish yang.

Stewing Chicken Soup with Coix Seed.

Coix seed is slightly cold in nature, so it is not very suitable for congee or eating alone. However, it is a good choice to stew it with chicken, which has a warming effect, and it can also strengthen the spleen and tonify deficiency. Before stewing, add a few red dates and cook with Codonopsis pilosula to make the taste milder.

American Ginseng Chicken Soup