Mucous soups are intended for sick people whose stomach is not ready to digest plant fiber or extractive substances found in meat, fish or vegetable dishes. This is the most sparing diet that doctors prescribe to people who have undergone surgery on the organs of the gastrointestinal tract. The benefits of such food are also invaluable during an exacerbation of peptic ulcer in the offseason. Below are the simplest recipes for such dishes.
Therapeutic diet
Mucous soups are part of the diet at number 0 and 1. The only difference between them is that for a zero diet in the first dish add meat broth, made a second time. This means that after boiling lean meat, the liquid is drained and new water is collected. When the broth boils again, the meat begins to cook until cooked.
Diet number 1 includes such soups with the addition of a small amount of milk.
The necessary consistency
Dietary soup is not in vain called mucous. Visually, it looks like jelly and has a very delicate and uniform consistency. In such a soup there should not be a single, even the smallest piece of solid food, as this can mechanically damage the inflamed walls of the stomach or intestines.
Mucous soups are decoctions of various cereals, resembling thick cream. The taste of the dish is slightly expressed, only the distant smell of some cereals, milk or eggs is felt.
How to cook mucous soups?
Any cereal is taken for soup, depending on the preferences of the sick person. First, it is poured into a pot and washed under wastewater. Then pour the cereal with 250 - 600 grams of water and put on fire. After boiling, reduce the pressure of the gas and cook for about 1 hour. Cooking time depends on the type of cereal. Rice should be cooked the longest, and less time will be spent on semolina.
Dietary mucous soups cook faster if you grind the grits before cooking in a coffee grinder. To do this, it is washed, then dried in the oven at a low temperature, poured into small amounts in a coffee grinder and brought to a state of flour. Now you can cook soup from it. Doctors advise using this method also because not only a decoction of cereals gets into the soup, but also crushed grains. The dish becomes more satisfying and contains more nutrients, which is necessary for the recovery of patients after surgery.
Serving Soup
Number 1 diet soups are served warm. The temperature of the dish should not be less than 55 degrees and above 62 degrees. If cereal was prepared, then after complete boiling it is filtered through a fine sieve or gauze. The soup should consist of one broth, you do not need to press hard or wipe through the sieve the cereal itself. If you cooked a dish from semolina, then this procedure does not need to be done, since it is already small.
The resulting dietary soup consists of gluten cereals, as well as gelatinized starch.
After the mucous mass was filtered through a sieve, the broth must again be put on fire and re-brought to a boil, and then additionally put in a water bath. To do this, prepare a pot of boiling water and insert a bowl of soup into it so that the bottom does not touch the water.
How to increase the nutritional value of soup
There are several different ways to make the mucous soup more satisfying:
- Grind the cereals before boiling, so that in addition to gluten, cooked cereal flour also gets into the dish.
- Add butter before serving.
- Top up milk.
- Make an egg-milk mixture.
Consider how such a mixture is prepared. Beat the egg yolk with a whisk with hot milk. You can use cream. If such an additive was poured into the soup, then when reheating, do not bring it to a boil. Due to the heat in the first dish, flakes may appear from folding the eggs, it will be necessary to re-filter through a sieve and as a result the product used will not get into the dish. Ready soup can be slightly salted or sweetened just before use, adding a little sugar.
Rice cereal recipe
Rice mucous soup is a hearty and healthy dish for the stomach and intestines. You can cook it from whole grains, however, it is cooked faster from ground flour.
To prepare, prepare 40 grams of rice, 300 grams of pure water and 5 grams of butter.
Before sending to boiling water, rice should be sorted out and washed under wastewater. Cook porridge before boiling. This may take about an hour. Then take a fine sieve and wipe the resulting broth through it. Large particles of grains should not get into the soup. Next, the mucous soup again needs to be brought to a boil and a little salt. Before serving a sick person, the dish should cool slightly. Do not forget to put a piece of butter.
Egg and milk pearl barley soup
To prepare such a diet dish you will need:
- 600 or 700 ml of water;
- 40 grams of pearl barley;
- 150 ml of milk;
- half of the yolk;
- 5 grams of butter.
Before cooking, rinse cereals under wastewater. Put in a pan and add the required amount of water. After boiling, the croup is cooked over a quiet fire until the barley is completely boiled. Then remove the soup from the stove and strain the mucous broth through a sieve. Put it on fire again and bring to a boil. Separately, you need to make a lezon, that is, a milk-egg mixture. Milk needs to be heated, but not brought to a boil and gradually pour the egg, stirring all the time. Then mix everything with pearl barley and add a piece of butter to the table before serving.
Oatmeal soup
Mucous herculean soup is also prepared with a mixture of milk and yolk. To prepare it, prepare 500 or 600 ml of pure water, Hercules flakes - 40 grams, milk - 150 ml, half a chicken yolk and 10 grams of butter.
Oatmeal is immediately poured into boiling water, boiled until it is completely boiled. Remove porridge from the heat and filter the first broth through a fine sieve. Then put on fire again and bring to a boil. Separately, make a mixture of milk and half the yolk and pour it into the mucous soup. Throw a piece of oil before use.
Dietary soups can also be cooked from semolina, barley, pearl barley and wheat. The principle of preparation is similar. The main thing is that the soup is thoroughly boiled and filtered. Dietary food for postoperative patients should be as sparing as possible, both mechanically and thermally. Be healthy!