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Delicious medicine,Tea,Kitchen Science

The way of cooking shabu-shabu (sliced beef boiled with hot water) with steeping its meet in the boiled water is intended to reduce extra fat in the body.
Using tea drops with which reduce extra fat and cholesterol, sha-shabu is cooked.
Shabu-shabu can reduce extra fat further shapely. Combined it with pork, the smell peculiar to pork will be removed by the tea fragrance. You can enjoy light taste of shabu-shabu.
Ingredients/200g (sliced thin) pork belly
15g tea leaves
1 white radish sprouts
Each proper quantity: the lettuce, the red green pepper, etc.
Non-oil dressing (2 teaspoon salt, a pinch of pepper, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 5 tablespoon stock, 3 tablespoon vinegar, 1/2 tablespoon mirin (sweet rice wine), each 1 tablespoon cooking tea and ground sesame
Methods/(1)Put tea leaves wrapped in a tea-bag or gauze into the 5 or 6 cup boiled water (over quantity), and boil it on the fire for a couple of minutes.
(2)Add 5 or 6 sheets pork to (1) at a time. Shortly after passing it through the fire, take it to the colander and drain off.
(3)Drain the white radish off after boiling. Slice the other vegetables julienne or tear them to eat by hand.
(4)Arrange (3) with (2), and make the non-oil dressing in which contains tea, and add it to the shabu-shabu.

It is recommended for the people who want to eat meat while worrying about the increase of a calorie or cholesterol to use tea drops as boiled juice for meat cooking.
This method utilizes the property of catechin in tea that suppresses the increase of the cholesterol in blood. In addition to using it for cooking, it is useful to drink a cup of tea after the dish for protecting the accumulation of cholesterol.
It is said that arteriosclerosis of adult's diseases, the so-called "contemporary disease", results from the increase of baddy cholesterol in blood. Using the property of tea well, it could be able to protect these diseases. Make it a habit from one's childhood.


The effective and rich ingredients in tea such as carotene, vitamin C and E, food fiber, and also protect cancer. However, except vitamin C, these ingredients can't dissolve into water. These ingredients which couldn't dissolve into water should be used for cooking with other foods. Using freshly drawn tea leaves (Issendashi cha), you can take such nutrition effectively.
Ingredients/50g carrots
50g konjak jelly (paste made from the arum root)
Two dried shiitake mushrooms
Stock (3/4 cups of broth, tablespoons 1 1/3 sugar and the weaker, 2/3 tablespoons lighter-colored soy sauce)
The dressed coating (1/2 tofu, 2 tablespoon the white soybean paste (siro miso), 2 tablespoon sugar, 1/4 teaspoons salt)
5g a high grade green tea
10g raw tea leaves
3 tablespoon made the white sesame,
Methods/(1)Steam and boil raw tea leaves with salt. If raw tea leaves are not used, make it freshly issendashi cha, drain it off quickly.
(2)Slice a carrot and konjak jelly into the rectangle style, put dried shiitake mushrooms into the water and slice it into shreds. Combine the former with the latter, season with spices contained in stock. Boil and bring it to the colander.
(3)Make a coating to dress the ingredients. Boil and drain tofu. Grate white sesame until sweet fragrance comes out after parching it. Add a tofu to it, pick and blend them further, and season it.
(4)Using a coating of (3), both tea leaves of (1) and the prepared ingredients of (2) are dressed.

Nowadays, the average of suffering cancer is so high (about 34%). Catechins contained in tea suppress the outbreak of cancer and the reproduction of its cell.
In addition, it has carotene, vitamin C and E, food fiber sufficiently.
Compared with the other vegetables, tea has the same abundant nutrition ingredients as that of vegetables. It could be called as "No.1 food to protect the cancer". A handful of tea leaves added to a daily dish would work inside the body to keep your health.