"Children, don't be greedy, it's the New Year after Laba Festival." This year's Spring Festival is a bit early, the New Year's flavor is getting stronger, and the countdown has begun.
New Year’s goods, New Year’s menus, and New Year’s wine must be carefully prepared, especially the New Year’s Eve meal. Celebrating the New Year with the elderly, we must also respect the traditions of the older generation. The 6 must-do dishes every year must be prepared. They must be delicious, beautiful, and have good meanings. Have a good New Year picture!
Let’s take a look, do you have these 6 dishes in your New Year’s Eve dinner? Are the customs the same?
【Preserved Egg Tofu】, this is a cold dish with a beautiful shape and can be eaten with wine. In fact, the main thing I want to talk about in this dish is tofu. There is something special about eating tofu during the Chinese New Year. Tofu means blessing, and tofu means blessing.
The ingredients required for this dish are very simple: lactone tofu 1 box, and about 4 preserved eggs.
Method: Put the lactone tofu on a plate and mark it with a flower knife. Peel the preserved eggs, cut them into pieces and place them around the tofu in the shape of petals. Cut some red bell peppers and chopped green onions and put them on the tofu, add sesame oil and salt, and the dish is ready. It is simple, delicious, and looks festive.
[ Braised Pork Trotters ] , is booming. As soon as it is served, the New Year flavor becomes stronger. Pig's trotters are a must-eat dish for New Year's Eve dinner every year. Pig's trotters are also called pig's hands, which are used to hold money and are meant to attract wealth.
Ingredients required: pig trotters, rock sugar, fermented bean curd juice, pepper, bay leaves, soy sauce, sweet noodle sauce, vegetable oil, salt, cooking wine
Method: clean the pig trotters, chop into pieces, put in cold water, add white wine to boil and blanch, remove and purify the water; add vegetable oil to the wok, add a handful of rock sugar and stir-fry until dense bubbles form, add the pig trotters and stir-fry the sugar color; add Bring hot water to a boil, pour into the pressure cooker; add onion, ginger, star anise, fermented bean curd juice, sweet noodle sauce, cooking wine, light soy sauce, peppercorns, bay leaves, and salt, and press for 40 minutes; return to the wok, heat to reduce the juice, and it is ready to serve. Eating chicken will bring you good luck and make money.
Ingredients required: 1 large plate of chicken wing roots, braised soy sauce, rock sugar, green onion and ginger, salt, vegetable oil
Method: blanch the chicken wing roots in a pot, remove and remove the water; add vegetable oil to the wok, add 1 large handful of rock sugar, stir-fry until the rock sugar melts and changes color, dense bubbles bulge, immediately pour in the chicken wing roots and stir-fry Color; add hot water, add green onion, ginger, soy sauce, salt, cooking wine, bring to a boil over medium heat, cook until the chicken wings are cooked through, and there is a small amount of vegetable juice. Turn off the heat and remove from the pan, sprinkle with chopped green onions and serve. It is fragrant and delicious.
[Steamed Fish] Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is only as good as chicken and fish! Fish during the Chinese New Year are eaten whole, which means there will be more than enough every year, and life will be rich and abundant throughout the year.
Ingredients needed: 1 bright red pomfret (or seabass ), onion and ginger, steamed fish soy sauce, cooking wine, salt, vegetable oil
Method: clean the fish, use a double-sided knife to make a shallow cut, add more cooking wine, add shredded ginger and 1/3 spoon of salt. Spread evenly inside and outside, and remove the fishy smell for 8 minutes; place ginger shreds on the fish plate, shake off the fish sauce, and pile it on top of the ginger shreds; steam in a pot over boiling water, start timing after turning on the steam for 8 minutes, turn off the heat and simmer for 2 minutes; take out the fish plate, remove the steaming juice, put shredded green onions on the fish, and garnish with some millet and pepper, pour 8 tablespoons of steamed fish soy sauce, and pour hot vegetable oil on the shredded green onions to release the fragrance. Serve, it is delicious and delicious.
[Steamed Sliver Pork] Every New Year’s Eve dinner must include steamed vegetables, which means prosperity, career is flourishing, life is flourishing, and the days are getting better and better.
Ingredients needed: pork belly with skin, sweet noodle sauce, rock sugar, soy sauce, onion, ginger, garlic, star anise, pepper, vegetable oil, salt
Method: Boil the pork belly for half an hour, Remove and drain or wipe off the water, fry the meat until the skin becomes wrinkled and golden; scoop out and cut into thicker slices when it is not hot; put a layer of sweet noodle sauce in a large bowl, place the meat slices with the skin side down, add onion, ginger, garlic, star anise, and peppercorns, add 1 tablespoon of sugar, salt, soy sauce, and cooking wine, and steam in the pressure cooker for 1 hour. Just put it on a plate and serve. It’s a traditional New Year’s Eve dish that you must eat every year!
【Shaked Meatballs】. During the Chinese New Year, we pay attention to making meatballs. My family prefers to make a large plate of meatballs. Eating meatballs during the Chinese New Year brings money rolling in.
Ingredients: 3 fat 7 lean pork filling, onion, ginger and star anise, Sichuan peppercorns, bay leaves, egg white, sweet potato starch
Method: Stir an appropriate amount of onion and ginger water into the meat filling, add pepper powder, cooking wine, salt, light soy sauce, knock in the eggs, and stir vigorously with your hands. Beat continuously, add soaked slightly thick sweet potato starch, stir until fine and sticky; fry slowly in the pan until the meatballs are shaped and hardened, put them into the pressure cooker, add star anise, peppercorns, cinnamon, salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, add water to cover the meatballs, press for 40 minutes and put on the plate; add some water starch to the juice to thicken the gravy, pour it over, and it is ready to serve. Preparation points: Do not make the meat filling thin.
I am my mother’s little chef. I enjoy three delicious meals and share them happily. Food is the taste of home. Only with love can we do better. Three meals have “temperature” and experience the fun in the kitchen!
