Diet table No. 5 was developed by the Soviet dietitian Mikhail Pevzner specifically for people suffering from acute and chronic diseases of the liver, gallbladder and ducts, as well as those who underwent surgery on these organs of the gastrointestinal tract. This dietary system implies a full daily calorie content, but imposes a restriction on the use of fatty, spicy, sour, pickled and fried foods. However, in the list of allowed products you can find ingredients for preparing many delicious and satisfying dishes. We offer you simple and affordable recipes for diet number 5 for all occasions: for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
First and second courses
Potato puree soup with chicken
To prepare the soup, you will need potatoes (3 tubers), chicken breast (200 g), carrots, onions and salt.
The chicken should be cut into strips and boiled. At this time, raw potatoes, carrots and onions are cut into cubes. Shredded vegetables are laid out in a separate pan, poured with cold water and boiled until tender. Then boiled chicken breast is transferred to the same dish and using a blender, grind the whole mass to a puree state. Then it is salted, brought to a boil and turned off.
To diversify the dish, you can add zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, rice to it.
Pilaf
In order for pilaf to comply with the principles of dietary table No. 5, it must be prepared using a special technology.
Products that will be required to prepare the dish: rice (700 g), beef without veins (half a kilo), four carrots and onions. Salt is added to taste.
It is necessary to cook beef in advance, for which it is boiled. The water must be changed at least once during cooking. If a person cannot eat beef, then you can replace it with chicken meat.
After the meat becomes soft, it is cut and laid out in a cauldron. Chopped carrots and onions are also added there. Then pour in a small amount of water and simmer over low heat. When the water evaporates, the mixture of meat and vegetables is salted and rice is added to them. Beforehand, the cereal must be washed well. Rice is poured with water so that its border is 1,5 fingers above the level of the cereal. The dishes are covered with a lid and the dish is stewed on the slowest fire. It is not necessary to stir the pilaf during the cooking process. If there is not enough water for the rice to boil, you can add a little more from a hot kettle. At the end of cooking, pilaf is mixed and left to infuse.
Cauliflower soufflé
To prepare the dish, you will need the following set of products: cauliflower (600 g), semolina (30 g), salt, one egg, butter (10 g), milk (70 g).
The cabbage is boiled and ground, semolina is soaked in milk at this time (for about half an hour). Egg yolk is driven into cauliflower, then butter, swollen semolina and whipped protein mass are mixed in there. The souffle is laid out in molds and baked in the oven for no more than 10 minutes. Before serving, the dish can be decorated with crackers.
Soup with chicken meatballs
To prepare the soup, you will need pearl barley (30 g), potatoes, carrots, sour cream and lettuce. For meatballs, you need to purchase minced chicken, or make it yourself by twisting the chicken breast in a meat grinder.
Pearl barley is cooked separately from vegetables. Carrots, lettuce leaves are finely cut, poured with water and put on fire. Half an hour later, raw potatoes, ready-made pearl barley, and formed meatballs are added to them. The soup is brought to a boil, after which it is salted, boiled for another 10-15 minutes, covered with a lid and allowed to brew. Before serving, the soup is decorated with parsley and sour cream is added to it.
Beef patties with zucchini
To prepare the dish, you will need low-fat ground beef, melted butter, cheese, sour cream, zucchini.
From minced meat, you need to form meatballs, which are laid out on a mold greased with butter and baked in the oven for at least 30 minutes. At this time, zucchini is cut into circles, pitted and boiled in water with the addition of salt. Then they take a clean form, put boiled zucchini on it, put a beef patty in the middle, sprinkle with cheese and pour over sour cream. The form is sent to the oven for another 15 minutes.
Hake with vegetables
To prepare the dish, you will need hake fillet (2 pieces), zucchini, carrots, half an onion, butter (20 g), salt.
Carrots and onions are cut into cubes, zucchini is rubbed on a coarse grater. A layer of onion is laid out on a baking sheet, it is covered with fish fillet, then comes a layer of carrots, zucchini and salt. The dish is baked for 40 minutes at a temperature of 150 ° C.
Pumpkin casserole with vermicelli
To prepare the casserole, you will need as much grated fresh pumpkin as fits in one glass, 200 g of vermicelli, one egg, 0,5 cups of milk, two tablespoons of sugar and a tablespoon of butter.
Salt the grated pumpkin, add sugar and simmer until it becomes soft. The noodles are cooked separately, bringing it to half-cooked. Then milk, butter are added to the vermicelli and left to infuse for half an hour. After this time, the pumpkin with noodles is mixed, an egg is driven into the resulting mixture, laid out in a heat-resistant form and sent to the oven for 20 minutes. Before serving, the casserole is allowed to cool, poured with sour cream and served.
Salads for diet No. 5
Cheese-beetroot salad
To prepare the salad, you will need 3 small beets, 100 g of hard cheese, low-fat sour cream (3 teaspoons).
Beets, before putting on fire, must be thoroughly washed. You need to boil the root crops for about an hour, and then lower them into cold water for another 30 minutes. After this time, the beets are peeled and cut into strips. Cheese must be grated using a large grater.
Beets are laid out on a dish in the shape of a square, after mixing it with sour cream. Sprinkle top with grated cheese. You can decorate the dish with parsley and sour cream. Allow the salad to cool slightly before eating.
Vegetable caviar
This is a very tasty and dietary snack that will complement almost any main dish. To prepare caviar, you will need 2 small potatoes, one carrot, one fresh cucumber. You will also need vegetable oil and salt.
Potatoes and carrots are boiled in their skins, then cooled, peeled and coarsely chopped. Cucumbers are crushed, then all products must be twisted in a meat grinder. The resulting mixture is seasoned with vegetable oil, salted and mixed again.
Cabbage salad with celery
To prepare the salad, you will need cabbage (100 g), celery (50 g), one apple, half a teaspoon of sugar and 1,5 tablespoons of sour cream.
Rinse the cabbage well, finely chop, salt and squeeze. The resulting juice is drained. The apple is peeled from the peel and seeds, cut into slices. Celery cut into strips. Then all the components for the salad are mixed, sugar and sour cream are added to them. Salad spread in a salad bowl slide.
Breakfasts and desserts
Lazy dumplings
A very easy-to-prepare diet dish that can be offered not only to adults, but also to children.
Products needed for making dumplings: fresh cottage cheese (half a kilo), sugar (2 tablespoons), one raw egg, flour (3/4 cup), salt.
Cottage cheese is mixed with egg, sugar and a pinch of salt. Then a little flour is added to the resulting mass. When the dough acquires a soft but elastic consistency, it can be considered ready. It should be slightly sticky and moist. Before you start sculpting dumplings, you need to wet your hands with water, so it will be easier to work with the dough. A long sausage is formed from the resulting mass, which is cut into fragments of the same size. Any shape can be given to dumplings. Ready dumplings are dipped in boiling water and boiled for no longer than 3 minutes. When all the dumplings are on the surface, the fire can be turned off.
Serve dumplings well with sour cream. Such a delicious breakfast can be prepared for the future by placing some of the dumplings in the freezer.
Rice-curd casserole
To prepare a casserole that can be used as breakfast and dessert, you will need the following products: rice (250 g), cottage cheese (200 g), 3 apples and 3 chicken eggs, some raisins, 2 cups of milk, a tablespoon of sour cream, 2 tablespoons spoons of sugar.
A glass of milk is mixed with a glass of water and rice is boiled in this mixture. The cottage cheese is carefully ground through a sieve, and the eggs are beaten with sugar. Apples without peel and seeds are cut into cubes. Rice is cooled, cottage cheese, raisins, apples and an egg-sugar mixture are added to it. All products are laid out in a heat-resistant dish and placed in the oven. Top the casserole with a mixture of eggs and sour cream. Dessert must be kept in the oven for a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C.
Steamed omelette
A steam omelet is a great option for breakfast, which fits into the menu of table number 5. In this case, the yolk may not participate in the preparation of the dish (provided that the patient has recently undergone surgery and is in the recovery stage). In this case, the yolk is separated from the protein. The protein is whipped, mixed with low-fat milk, salted and poured into a double boiler bowl. After 20 minutes, the omelet will be ready.
You can add a pinch of nutmeg to the omelette to make it taste even better. As for the yolk, when the process of exacerbation of the disease has passed, it can be added to the dish.
Milk soup with potato dumplings
To prepare the dish, you will need 800 ml of milk, 4 potatoes, 2 tablespoons of starch, salt and fresh carrot juice.
Potatoes must first be peeled and grated on a fine grater. After the juice is separated, the potatoes are gently squeezed, and the starch is combined with the potato mass. Then small meatballs are made from it, which are boiled in boiling milk until they are completely ready. At the end of cooking, carrot juice is poured into the soup, salted, boiled for another minute and turned off.
To prepare cookies, you will need oatmeal, two eggs, sour cream (300 g), sugar (1 cup), butter (100 g).
The flakes will need to be dried well in the oven, and then crushed to a powder. Then sour cream, eggs, butter and sugar are added to the flakes. After kneading the dough from these ingredients, it is rolled out, given the desired shape and baked in the oven at 180 degrees for a quarter of an hour.
Beverages
Kissel with berries
To prepare a drink, you can use a wide variety of berries (raspberries, strawberries, currants, etc.). You will also need 4 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of starch, water (2 l).
If there are seeds in the berries, then you need to get rid of them. The starch is dissolved in water, after which the berries are poured over it, put on fire and boiled for 15 minutes until the jelly becomes thick. Sugar is added at the end of cooking.
Broth of a dogrose
To prepare a decoction, you need water and rose hips. For one part of the berries take 10 parts of water. To reduce the time of infusion of the decoction, you can pre-chop the berries. Then they are poured with water, put on fire and brought to a boil. You can add a little sugar to the broth, after which it is covered with a lid and the pan is left to infuse for 12 hours.
Sauces
Without dressing it is difficult to imagine almost any salad, casserole or meat dish. However, dietary table number 5 does not involve the use of spicy, fatty and sour sauces. However, this does not mean that one should eat tasteless food. It can and should be seasoned, for which you should use the sauce recipes below that are allowed on diet No. 5.
Milk Sauce
This sauce is an excellent addition to various desserts: puddings, pancakes, casseroles, cookies. To prepare it, you will need 50 ml of water and milk, 10 g of butter, a teaspoon of sugar and flour, and a pinch of vanilla.
The flour is dried in a frying pan, butter is added to it and rubbed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then it is mixed with milk, brought to a boil, boiled for 10 minutes, sugar and vanillin diluted in water are added. The resulting sauce must be filtered, cooled and used as a dressing for desserts.
Applesauce
This sauce is great for cereal chops, cottage cheese, pasta, casseroles. To prepare it, you need 2 apples, starch (30 g), sugar (150 g), a gram of cinnamon and a couple of drops of lemon juice.
Apples need to be peeled and seeds, cut into small slices, put in a saucepan, add sugar and lemon juice to them, pour cold water and boil. When the apples become soft, they are passed through a sieve, mixed again with water and brought to a boil. Starch is dissolved in water and added to apple sauce, stirring constantly. Then cinnamon is added there.