Celery, Cucumber and Fish Cake Stir-Fry

Why people make this stir-fry

In Chinese food-therapy tradition, high blood pressure is often associated with what practitioners call “liver heat” — a constitutional pattern marked by stress, a diet heavy in salty or fatty foods, and a sedentary lifestyle. Nourilo likes to point out that prevention starts long before any diagnosis: choosing more vegetables, less meat, and less salt is one of the simplest things a family can do together. This colourful stir-fry brings together celery (one of the most celebrated vegetables in Chinese food medicine for supporting calm blood flow), cool cucumber, and light homemade fish cakes — a genuinely tasty dish that happens to carry centuries of rationale behind it.