With pancreatitis, the patient should change their usual lifestyle and diet. Certain restrictions arise in the choice of dishes; many familiar foods are prohibited. Therefore, it is very important to understand which dishes can be eaten with pancreatitis, and which ones can provoke an exacerbation of the disease.
Fish will be among the permitted foods, but this also has its own restrictions and dietary rules. The choice of fish type and method of preparation should be discussed with your doctor so that the doctor can adjust the menu depending on the phase of the disease.
River and sea fish are a very important component of any person’s diet. After all, these products contain omega acids necessary for the body, which help lower cholesterol and improve metabolic processes.
Fish for pancreatitis
Patients with pancreatitis are allowed to eat fish, but only lean and moderately fatty varieties. Skinny varieties of fish, which include cod, haddock, pollock, navaga, pike, hake, mullet, blue whiting, are allowed to start eating in the first seven days from the moment of exacerbation of pancreatitis.
Moderately fatty varieties are allowed to be eaten when the patient’s condition has already stabilized. The attending physician may allow the introduction of carp, tuna, horse mackerel, catfish, perch, trout, bream, catfish, and lean herring into the diet. You should completely avoid fatty fish; even during a period of stable remission, it is better not to eat such food. Due to the high fat content, the patient may experience nausea, vomiting, and painful sensations in the abdomen may return.
It is best to try to buy fresh fish. This will not cause problems with river fish, but we most often purchase sea fish frozen. When purchasing such fish, you need to pay attention so that it is not re-frozen.
Before cooking, the fish will need to be cleaned and rinsed very well. For cooking, try to use only fillets. In the first month after an exacerbation of the disease, you should eat fish, minced in the form of steamed fish cutlets or boiled. In the future, as the condition improves, the patient will be able to bake fish and steam the whole fish.
Features of introducing turkey meat into the diet of patients with pancreatitis
Turkey for pancreatitis is not only allowed for consumption, but also very useful. To maintain life, a person needs to eat nutritious food. However, due to pancreatic weakness, impaired outflow of enzymes, digestive and metabolic processes, and decreased immunity, the choice of permitted products is greatly limited. They should be non-greasy, easy to digest and at the same time rich in useful elements and vitamins. Turkey is one such product.
During exacerbation
Turkey meat for acute pancreatitis, in the case of positive dynamics of stopping the attack, the ability to digest and assimilate food, is administered on the fourth or fifth day of the disease.
- In the first two days, the patient is advised to fast and is not allowed to drink anything except alkaline non-carbonated mineral water.
- After improving the condition and normalizing the functioning of the pancreas, the patient can gradually come out of the hunger strike and eat light food.
The body needs nutrients to heal. Therefore, if the course of the disease is favorable, on day 4-5 you are allowed to eat up to 100 grams of boiled turkey, crushed to a mushy state. In this form it will be much easier to digest the product.
If the patient’s health does not worsen after eating meat, the next time the amount of ground turkey can be increased to 150 grams.
For acute pancreatitis, it is better to eat turkey breast, as it has the least calorie content of all other parts. The skin must be removed from the meat - it is saturated with fats. During this period, it is allowed to consume only boiled, ground turkey; offal in the acute stage is strictly prohibited.
In remission
When stable remission is achieved, in conditions of normalization of digestion processes, absence of pancreatic pain, colic, flatulence, bloating and other signs of dyspepsia, turkey can be eaten not only in grated form, but also in small pieces. Turkey meat is very tender, its fibers are soft, so it is much easier to digest than beef.
Fish cutlets for pancreatitis
Product composition:
- 50 g milk;
- 500 g fish fillet;
- a piece of stale white bread;
- egg;
- a little salt.
Preparation progress:
- Lean fish should be cleaned and washed. If you have river fish, it is recommended to soak it in milk for half an hour to get rid of the specific smell that occurs after fresh water bodies.
- Soak stale bread in milk. Next, you need to twist the fish fillet along with the soaked bread. Twist the minced meat several times so that there are no grains in it. Place an egg and a little salt into the prepared minced meat. Mix.
- If desired, you can put a small amount of dry semolina into the minced meat, which will swell and the cutlets will be more airy. With this method of preparation, the minced meat should be left to brew for 10 minutes.
- Next, small cutlets should be formed from the minced fish and steamed or steamed for twenty minutes.
Serving these fish cutlets is very good with vegetables. You can eat this dish no more than twice a week.
Pancreatitis is a pathological lesion of the parenchymal gland, expressed in the development of inflammation of this organ and a decrease in its functionality. One of the aspects of successful treatment of the disease is adherence to a strict diet, which will help reduce the inflammatory process, prevent re-exacerbation and various complications. Recipes for preparing dietary food, if desired, can differ in a very impressive variety. Despite the fact that with pancreatitis, only dietary products are allowed to be consumed, you can prepare very tasty various dishes from them both for yourself and for your family and friends, which will be useful not only for pancreatic pathology, but also for the development of gastritis, as well as for cholecystitis. All types of fatty meat are completely excluded from the patients’ diet, but at the same time, attending physicians advise enriching the patients’ daily diet with lean types of meat, which is best consumed boiled, as part of stews, or pureed, and preferably in the form of meatballs or cutlets. Let's take a closer look at what kind of cutlets for pancreatitis are recommended to be cooked in order not only to diversify the diet, but also to get some benefit from it, and also what is the secret of preparing delicious dietary minced meat.
What are the benefits of poultry meat?
Due to its valuable composition, turkey has a wide range of useful properties:
- Replenishes the body's reserves with easily digestible protein, which is a valuable source of energy.
- Increases mental performance and physical endurance.
- Helps build muscle mass.
- Improves mood, normalizes sleep.
- Thanks to the presence of phosphorus and calcium, it helps strengthen bone tissue, joints, teeth, hair and nails.
- Due to the enrichment with selenium, it helps to normalize hormonal levels, protects the thyroid gland from diseases, and strengthens the immune system in general.
- It has antioxidant properties, prevents the development and proliferation of cancer cells.
- Helps cleanse the body of toxins and waste, protects cells from the destructive effects of free radicals.
- Reduces the amount of bad cholesterol.
- Improves metabolic processes.
- Normalizes intestinal motility.
- It is useful to include in the diet for constipation.
The big advantage of turkey is that its meat is hypoallergenic. Therefore, it can be eaten by pregnant, nursing mothers, small children, those with reduced immunity, as well as diseases of the digestive tract.
Despite its low calorie content, a serving of turkey can satisfy the body's daily need for omega 6 fatty acids. In terms of fat content, turkey is 3% fatter than rabbit meat, however, the protein of turkey meat is better absorbed.
General cooking rules
Food must be mechanically and thermally processed to be safe for a person suffering from pancreatitis. It is unacceptable to eat hot, cold, or sour foods. Pancreatitis also requires avoiding spicy, bitter, salty and fried foods. Thermal treatment of food for pancreatitis - boiling, steaming, stewing. The consistency of the dishes should be gentle on the inflamed pancreas, so a blender is a kitchen appliance often used to follow a therapeutic diet for pancreatitis.
It is necessary to prepare food in small portions.
For a patient with pancreatitis, the total amount of food per day is no more than 530-570 g per day.
For pancreatitis, it is necessary to strictly observe the proportional ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates when preparing food.
Particular attention is paid to the selection of products necessary for preparing food for a patient with pancreatitis. It is better to heat-treat vegetables. Green salads of different varieties are harmful to the body, it is better to avoid them. Bananas and dried fruits are also not recommended for preparing dietary dishes for pancreatitis. Recipes for preparing dishes for patients with pancreatitis include egg whites; the yolk is excluded from the diet.
How to prepare minced meat for cutlets if you are sick
To prepare delicious dietary minced meat, you first need to separate all the veins, internal fat, films from the meat and twist the prepared product three times in a meat grinder.
To the prepared minced meat you need to add white bread, which is pre-soaked in milk with a low fat content.
It is important to remember that if you replace bread with breadcrumbs or bread made from rye flour, the cutlets will have a denser structure.
Some people prefer to add potatoes to minced meat, but, as a rule, mashed potatoes are not provided as an additive in the classical technology for preparing minced meat.
To make the cutlets more tender, you should not add eggs to them, as eggs make the meat dish a little tougher during cooking.
If the minced meat is too liquid, then it is better to add a little semolina to it, which, after brewing and swelling, will take away the excess liquid, but this will not affect the taste of the product in any way.
And lastly, before forming the cutlets, it is recommended to beat the minced meat so that all the voids in it disappear and it becomes more elastic.
First
Soups are an essential part of the therapeutic diet for pancreatitis. Vegetables and grains are the most commonly used ingredients.
To prepare vegetable soup for pancreatitis, simple and affordable products are used. This soup is easy to digest.
Peel, wash, chop 400-500 g of potatoes, pour over boiling water and cook. While the potatoes are boiling, wash 400-500 g of cauliflower (you can use frozen product), disassemble into inflorescences and send to the potatoes. Chop 200 g of leek. Wash 200 g of fresh carrots, peel them, cut into cubes. Saute the leeks and carrots in a little olive oil and water for a few minutes, then add them to the soup. At the end of cooking, add salt and herbs to the soup. The total cooking time for the soup is about 30 minutes.
A prerequisite for a diet for pancreatitis is to prepare soup using a second broth.
To prepare this soup, you can use chicken fillet or rabbit meat. This meat is rich in protein, so it is useful for pancreatitis.
Cut 200 g of meat into cubes and cook in a saucepan with water for 30 minutes. Drain the broth. Add water to the meat again and bring to a boil. Add peeled, washed and thinly sliced vegetables: 1 potato and 1 carrot. Then put 30 g of oatmeal into the pan. Cook for 30 minutes. At the end of cooking, add a small amount of salt and herbs.
Second
Mashed potatoes and cereals are considered easily digestible; they do not overload the digestive organs. This food is suitable not only for pancreatitis, but also for cholecystitis.
Steamed fish cutlets
Pass 300 g of low-fat white fish fillet through a meat grinder. Add 2 pieces of white bread soaked in milk and minced to the fish. Mix. Beat the white of one egg with a fork and add to the fish mixture. Form cutlets. Steam the cutlets for 20 minutes.
To prepare puree, it is better to use seasonal vegetables, since they contain the greatest amount of substances beneficial to the body, which is especially important for pancreatitis.
Pumpkin, zucchini and potato puree
Cut 100 g pumpkin, 100 g zucchini and 200 g potatoes into small slices. Boil the potatoes, simmer the pumpkin and zucchini in water with olive oil until tender. Grind the cooked vegetables in a blender, then mix the mashed potatoes and the zucchini and pumpkin mixture with each other. Add a little seasoning based on dry herbs and 2 tbsp to the vegetables. l. olive oil. Place on fire and bring to a boil. The puree will be more tender if you beat it again. This is a delicious side dish that will highlight the natural taste of fish or poultry.
Fish recipes
Fish dishes are low in calories and easy to digest. Fish contains a whole range of essential trace elements and minerals that are necessary for the functioning of all body systems, especially the immune system.
Light dietary steamed fish cutlets for pancreatitis
Products:
- Low-fat fish fillet – 150-200 gr.
- Milk – ¼ cup (30-50 ml)
- Loaf pulp – 30 g. (in equal parts with milk)
- Unsalted sandwich butter - teaspoon
Snacks
To prepare snacks for a diet with pancreatitis, you can use low-fat, hard and mild cheeses, lean meat, and dried pieces of black bread. Mushrooms in any form are prohibited for consumption.
Meat appetizer with vegetables
Boil 50 g of rice until tender in water with added salt. Boil 250 g of veal, 1 egg and 1 beet until tender. Grate beets, eggs and 80 g of hard cheese. Cut the boiled veal into strips. Combine all ingredients, add boiled rice. Season the mixture with yogurt and place on slices of slightly toasted black bread.
Salads
Light apple and carrot salad
Boil 1 carrot, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Wash 1 sour apple, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Mix carrots with apples.
Season the salad with yogurt or low-fat sour cream.
Recipes for snacks and appetizers
As a snack, the patient's diet includes additional meals: second breakfast and afternoon snack. Dishes for these meals should be light, easily digestible and low in calories.
Curd pudding for pancreatitis
Products:
- Low-fat cottage cheese – 0.5 kg
- Semolina – 3 tablespoons
- Milk – 1 glass
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Low-fat sour cream – 2-3 dessert spoons
- Vegetable oil for greasing the mold
Step by step recipe:
Pour semolina with a glass of milk and leave to swell for 15 minutes. At this time, chop the cottage cheese or wipe it so that there are no lumps.
Add the swollen semolina along with milk and egg yolk to the finished cottage cheese. Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form and carefully fold into the curd mixture, stirring with a spatula.
Grease the bottom and ends of the mold with oil. Place the curd mass into the mold and coat its surface with sour cream. Bake the curd pudding in an oven preheated to 200 C until fully cooked.
This pudding makes a great snack or a full dinner. It is low in calories, easy to digest and digest.
Dessert
Peel and pit 100 g peaches. Grind 100 g of strawberries with peaches in a blender. Beat 50 g of cottage cheese and 50 ml of cream 10% fat in a blender with 3 tsp. Sahara. Place in bowls, add chopped fruit on top.
Semolina pudding with berry sauce
Boil 250 ml of apple juice and, without removing from heat, slowly pour 2 tbsp into it. l. semolina, stirring constantly. Add 50 ml of milk, cook for 5 minutes. Pour into flexible portion forms and cool. Mix a handful of any non-acidic frozen berries with 1 tsp. sugar, heat. Remove portions from molds and pour sauce over them.
In a slow cooker
Beef soufflé
This dish is an alternative to cutlets and meatballs, because with pancreatitis it is important to diversify the menu. To make the soufflé tender and tasty, you need to follow the rules for its preparation.
Pass 300-350 g of beef through a meat grinder 2 times. Add 130 g of milk and a teaspoon of butter to the minced meat, carefully move the minced meat with your hands. Beat the white of one egg with a mixer until stiff foam and gradually add it to the minced meat. Add a tablespoon of wheat flour. Stir thoroughly. Grease the multicooker mold with butter and place the minced meat in it in a layer of about 3 - 4 cm. Close the multicooker lid, set the custom mode with a temperature of 100 degrees for 15 minutes. You can serve boiled rice or buckwheat as a side dish for this soufflé.
Examples of dietary recipes
Turkey dishes for chronic pancreatitis are quite varied. You can use this meat to prepare soup, cutlets, meatballs, medallions, and rolls. The most suitable side dishes for turkey are vegetables and cereals.
It is very important to choose good, high-quality meat:
- It has a soft pink color, and when pressed with a finger, it springs back to its original shape.
- If the meat is deeply colored, it has most likely been treated with dye or chemicals. It is quite possible that such a turkey is missing. If, when pressed, a dent remains on the meat, this is a sign that it has been sitting for a long time or has “disappeared”.
Turkey recipes for pancreatitis must be adapted to the principles of dietary nutrition - a minimum of fat, salt, no hot seasonings, spices, or frying.
Light soup
Components:
- 150 grams of turkey (breast or fillet);
- a teaspoon of olive oil;
- two medium carrots;
- five medium potatoes;
- 3 liters of water;
- a couple of sprigs of parsley or dill;
- a pinch of salt.
Wash the turkey, dry it, remove skin and bones (if any), finely chop it with a knife.
Boil half a liter of water in a small saucepan, place the meat in it and simmer for five to seven minutes over medium heat. This is the first broth that, in case of pancreatitis, it is advisable to pour it out and not use it for food. At the same time, you should boil three liters of water in a saucepan; when it boils, transfer the freshly boiled turkey pieces into it. Cook the bird over medium heat for 20 minutes.
Peel the potatoes and carrots. Cut the potatoes into medium cubes, grate the carrots.
After 20 minutes of cooking the broth, add chopped potatoes to it. Seven minutes after it boils, pour the grated carrots into the pan. Chop the greens and add to the container seven to ten minutes after the carrots boil. Salt it a little. After about two minutes, you can turn off the soup. At the end of cooking, it doesn’t hurt to add a teaspoon of olive oil.
Steam cutlets
These cutlets can be cooked in a double boiler or slow cooker. They turn out very tender, juicy and tasty.
- 500 grams of turkey breast;
- a piece of white bread without crusts;
- one egg;
- 100 ml milk with low fat content;
- a bunch of dill;
- a pinch of salt (optional without it).
Pour milk into a bowl and soak the bread in it. Rinse the fillet and grind through a meat grinder with a fine mesh. Then twist the soaked bread and add it to the meat, beat in the egg and add finely chopped dill. Knead the minced meat. If it turns out cool, you can add a little milk there. Add salt if necessary. To make the mixture more tender and homogeneous, it can be passed through a meat grinder again.
Small cutlets are formed from the finished mass.
Pour a liter of water into the multicooker bowl and place the cutlets in the steaming container. Close the multicooker lid. Select the “Steam” mode and set the time to 40 minutes. After the time has passed, test to see if it is ready. Eat warm.
Baked meat in a sleeve with vegetables
Components:
- 200 grams of turkey breast;
- one large carrot;
- one tomato;
- two small or one large bell pepper;
- three medium potatoes.
Rinse the meat, remove skin and veins, cut into strips. Wash and peel the vegetables well. Cut potatoes, tomatoes, peppers into half rings, grate carrots.
Set the oven to 200 degrees. Place vegetables in a baking sleeve and place turkey meat on top. If desired, you can add a little salt to the dish. Tie the two ends of the sleeve well with thread. Place the baking sheet in the oven. Bake for 40-60 minutes. Serve warm; you can decorate the dish with sprigs of herbs.
Recipes for pancreatitis for children
A child diagnosed with pancreatitis needs to prepare dishes from simple ingredients, choosing their combinations especially carefully. To add variety, it is enough to decorate ready-made food.
Rice milk soup
This soup will satisfy your hunger for a long time, it is satisfying, nutritious and cooks quickly.
Rinse 3 tbsp. l. rice, add 250 ml of water and cook until half cooked. Pour in 500 ml of milk and cook until fully cooked. At the end of cooking, add 1 tsp. sugar and a pinch of salt.
No-bake cottage cheesecake with vegetables
For this dish you will need unsweetened cookies without margarine.
Crush 100 g of cookies, mix with 80 g of soft butter. Line the bottom of the pan with a layer of this mixture. Cool. Boil 1 carrot, a handful of green beans and half an ear of corn. Chop carrots and beans, add corn kernels. To prepare the curd mass, dilute 1.5 tbsp. l. gelatin in 1 glass of hot water. Mix 50 ml of sour cream 10% fat with 300 g of low-fat cottage cheese. Pour in gelatin and mix. Set aside part of the mixture and mix the rest with vegetables. First place the mixture with vegetables on the cookie layer, then without vegetables. Place in the refrigerator. Serve warm.
Snowballs in strawberry filling
Beat 2 egg whites with a mixer. Continuing to beat, add 30 g of sugar and a pinch of vanillin. Beat into a strong foam. Boil water in a saucepan. Using a tablespoon, form snowballs into round shapes from the protein mass and place them in boiling water. Cook for 4 - 5 minutes. After this, place on a paper towel and let the water drain. Place 100 g of strawberries, 10 g of sugar and 20 g of flour in a saucepan. Crush the strawberries. Heat the mixture over the fire while stirring. Cool. Serve the cooled snowballs on top of the strawberry filling.
Steamed cod fish balls
Ingredients:
- cod – 400 g
- milk - 100 g (1/2 cup)
- wheat bread - 90 g
- egg -1/2 pcs
Cooking technology:
- We cook the fish - wash it, remove the bones and skin, cut it into pieces and pass it through a meat grinder twice.
- Add stale wheat bread soaked in water or milk, salt and mix thoroughly.
- Form into balls; no need to use flour.
- Place the meatballs in molds, add water and cook for 10 minutes or steam. Find out how to steam it here.
In case of inflammation of the pancreas, a number of strict restrictions are imposed on the usual diet of a sick person. You should not eat pork or other fatty meats. But at the same time, experts strongly recommend including lean meat in the diet and eating it steamed, stewed, boiled or pureed. You can cook beef stroganoff, dumplings or meat in pieces, but it is healthier to cook steamed cutlets or stewed meatballs.
