The annual Spring Festival is coming soon, in this festival of resignation and welcome, national celebration, and reunion of ten thousand families, Chinese New Year’s EveChinese New Year’s Eve rice is of course a major event, Chinese New Year’s Eve rice is also called “New Year dinner”, “reunion dinner”, this meal is only food, but also reflects the warmth, reunion, happiness and peaceful warm atmosphere of family together.
China’s 5,000 years of ancient culture, the old generation left a lot of old traditions in the New Year, whether rich or poor, Chinese New Year’s Eve rice must make a few dishes with beautiful meanings, eat delicious food, but also to get a good head for next year, the old people often say: “6 dishes do not serve, fortune does not enter the door” What dishes do these 6 dishes refer to? Let’s take a look at the specific statement, do it right, fortune and wealth are in the door, smooth sailing for a whole year.
First course: salted prawns
Chinese New Year’s EveChinese New Year’s Eve rice, this oil stewed prawns must not be less, in addition to the simple method, delicious taste, rich nutrition, more importantly, the color of the prawns is red, which means “good luck”, in the new year, we have everything smoothly, good fortune and double harvest.
【Ingredients】: Prawns, onions, green onions, ginger, garlic.
[Specific method]: 1. Remove the shrimp feet, shrimp gun, shrimp stomach, shrimp line, clean the shrimp line, drain the water and set aside.
2. Evenly spread the sliced green onion, ginger slices, garlic slices, and shredded onion in the pan, and then spread the processed prawns, add a handful of peppercorn skin, pour a little cooking wine, a little salt, cover the pot, no need to add a drop of water, the pot is boiled for 3 minutes, simmered for 2 minutes, tender and crisp, fresh and not fishy salted baked prawns are ready! It’s simple, and you can learn it as soon as you learn it.
Second course: rape with shiitake mushrooms
The homonym of rapeseed “have wealth” means that the new year is prosperous business, wealth is abundant, and the whole year is “wealthy”. And this dish is a combination of meat and vegetables, the appearance is good-looking, smooth and smooth, and the whole family rushes to eat it on the table.
【Ingredients】: Rape, shiitake mushrooms, pork, chopped green onion, minced ginger, garlic, peppercorn peel.
【Specific production steps】: 1. Wash all 2 halves of small rape, cut the washed shiitake mushrooms into four cloves, shred pork, slice garlic, and mince ginger. Heat oil in a pot and fry shredded meat until it changes color, add cooking wine to remove fishy, stir-fry evenly, add green onion and ginger, garlic peppercorn skin and stir-fry fragrant, burst the aroma and pour into shiitake mushrooms to stir-fry moisture, seasoning salt, oyster sauce, old soy sauce, light soy sauce, small ground sesame oil, stir-fry for 3 minutes, shiitake mushrooms are stir-fried and served.
2. Boil the water in the pot, put in the washed small rape, add an appropriate amount of salt, a little peanut oil, plus these two, can make the color of the blanched small rape more emerald green and bright, blanch for 1 minute, the small rape becomes soft and immediately fished out, put into a cool white open, to prevent the color from yellowing, and then neatly placed on the plate, pour fried shiitake mushrooms in the middle, and you can eat it when you eat it! The small rape is tender and crispy, the shiitake mushrooms are delicious and fragrant, appetizing and cooking, so delicious!
Third course: salted baked chicken
As the saying goes: “No chicken is a feast, and no fish is a feast”. The homonym of chicken is “auspicious”, which means that in the new year, no matter what you do, it is “good luck” and everything goes smoothly. Chinese New Year’s Eve rice, the “salted baked chicken” must be made.
【Ingredients】: Little rooster, ginger, green onion, onion, garlic, salt baked powder.
[Specific production steps]: 1. Evenly tie the hole on the surface of the washed little rooster with a toothpick to facilitate the taste, and then prepare an empty bowl, add ginger slices, green onion segments, onion shreds, salt baking powder, cooking wine and stir evenly, and then evenly spread to the whole body of the chicken, the chicken belly should also be evenly applied, repeatedly rubbed for a while, let it taste, and finally put two chicken legs into the chicken belly, green onion, ginger slices are also stuffed into the chicken belly, marinated for 1 hour.
2. Spread the bottom of the rice cooker with shredded onion, ginger slices, green onion segments, garlic slices, put in the marinated little rooster, pour in an appropriate amount of peanut oil, pour in the seasoning of salt chicken, open the cooking button, cook for 40 minutes, and the delicious salted baked chicken is ready! Soft and deboned and delicious, it is better than what you bought outside.
Fourth course: steamed multi-treasure fish
Because the homonym of fish is “yu”, eating fish in the New Year means “more than every year”. In the new year, whether it is money or food, we have surpluses, food and clothing, happiness and well-being.
【Ingredients】: Treasure fish, ginger, green onion, peppercorns, star anise.
[Specific production steps]: 1. Remove the internal organs of the fish and scrape off the scales, clean it, cut a knife on the back of the fish to facilitate the taste, add salt, cooking wine, green onion, ginger and marinate for 5 minutes.
2. Put ginger slices on the bottom of the plate, put the marinated Treasure Fish, the fish belly is facing up, put shredded green onion, ginger slices, peppercorn skin, star anise, put it on the steamer, boil and steam for 10 minutes over high heat, the steamed Treasure Fish picks out the seasoning, pours out the juice of the steamed fish, puts a little more minced garlic, pours the smoking hot oil, stimulates the garlic aroma, pour steamed fish soy sauce, a delicious steamed Treasure Fish is ready, the meat is white and tender, fresh and not fishy, and the whole family likes it on the table.
The fifth course: yam oranges
Chinese New Year’s Eve rice table can not only be big fish and meat, must make a dessert to relieve greasy, this orange yam yellow and white, meaning gold and jade, flowers bloom rich, soft and sweet, as soon as it is served, it will be grabbed, and the method is super simple, so it is a dish that must be served Chinese New Year’s Eve rice.
【Ingredients】: Yam, orange, strawberry, kiwi, coconut, sugar, honey, milk.
【Specific production steps】: 1. Peel and wash the yam, cut it into pieces and put it on a plate, put it on the steamer, bring to a boil over high heat and turn to low heat and steam for 20 minutes.
2. Steam the yam in the spare time, peel off the skin of the orange and kiwi fruit for later use.
3. When the time to steam the yam comes, we can easily insert it with a chopstick, which means that it is soft and rotten, and then add an appropriate amount of white sugar and a little milk, press it into yam puree, and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator to freeze for 30 minutes, so that it is easier to form.
4. Take out the solidified yam puree, pull out a small ball into a ball, press it into a cake, put on the peeled orange, wrap the orange like a mooncake, and then put it in the coconut paste and roll, let the yam ball evenly stick to the coconut paste, cut it in half, a blooming flower will come out, the same way to make strawberries and kiwi fruit, you can also change to other favorite fruits, put it in shape, a plate of delicious desserts is ready! Do you drool when you look at it?
Sixth course: stuffed meat with cabbage
As the saying goes: “A hundred vegetables are not as good as cabbage”. The homonym of cabbage is “cabbage”, the meaning of this cabbage stuffed meat is “a hundred fortunes gather”, and because this dish is a steamed dish, it also means “thriving day”, in the new year, the meaning: “a hundred fortunes gather, prosperous day by day”.
【Ingredients to be prepared】: Chinese cabbage, pork, egg, starch, green onion, minced garlic, millet spicy, vermicelli, ginger.
[Specific production steps]: 1. Add eggs, salt, thirteen spices, chopped green onion, cooking wine, stir evenly, add starch to increase adhesion, stir well again, pour an appropriate amount of small sesame oil to lock the moisture of the minced meat, so that the meat filling is fresh and tender, fat but not greasy, especially delicious.
2. The Chinese cabbage is cut with a knife from one-third, the cabbage leaves account for two-thirds, only part of the cabbage leaves, and then peeled off one by one.
3. Bring water to a boil in a pot, put in a spoonful of salt, put in Chinese cabbage leaves, after the pot is turned soft, take out the cool water, and then squeeze out the water. Take out a cabbage leaf, put the adjusted minced meat in the middle, roll it from one end to the other, wrap the minced meat tightly, and make it all in turn.
4: Spread the bottom of the plate with the vermicelli soaked in advance, put the cabbage rolls, put the garlic paste in the middle, put it on the steamer, bring to a boil on high heat and steam for 10 minutes.
5. Put three slices of green onion cut in advance in the middle of the steamed cabbage roll, pour hot oil to stimulate the aroma, pour in an appropriate amount of light soy sauce or steamed fish soy sauce, or white seared juice, a delicious “hundred fortunes gathering” is ready! The cabbage and vermicelli absorb the aroma of the minced meat, and the umami of the minced cabbage is fat but not greasy, and melts in the mouth, which is really delicious in the world.
