Time is like lightning, fleeting, and before we know it, we are about to usher in Chinese New Year's Eve. In addition to setting off firecrackers, worshipping ancestors, and sticking Spring Festival couplets on Chinese New Year's Eve, the most anticipated thing is the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Whether you have money or not, everyone will do their best to make the meal to the extreme. Because the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is not only to fill the stomach, it also carries reunion, happiness, blessings, etc. Everyone sat together, chatting about their respective situations, tasting the long-lost taste of hometown, and looking forward to a better life in the future.
Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner, as a meal to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, has many customs and exquisiteness, although they are not necessarily scientific, but they are people's yearning for health, peace, wealth, and career, looking forward to the fulfillment of their wishes. It is recommended that you do not touch 3 ingredients and eat 4 more dishes to please a good fortune for the Year of the Dragon.
(1) Dog meat
Dogs have been good friends of humans since ancient timesIt can be a caretaker of the home, and it can be used as a friend to accompany us, just like our family. I don't know when it began, there was a saying that "eating dog meat can keep the cold warm and nourish the body", and many people like to stew some dog meat in winter. The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is all about festivity and peace, stewing friends from the nursing home, can it be auspicious?
The Chinese New Year's Eve dinner recommends that everyone do not touch dog meat, there is a kind of calling"Fight the dogsIt means that after eating dog meat, you have to go your separate ways, which is unlucky.
(2) Bitter gourd
Whether it is the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingming Festival, or Winter Solstice, everyone wants to ask for good luck, so they will say more good things and blessings. The Spring Festival is one of the largest traditional festivals in China, and it is not only auspicious to speak, but also to eat auspicious meals. For example, the pig's hand has the meaning of grasping wealth, the rice cake has the meaning of backgammon, and the chicken wings have the meaning of Dapeng spreading its wings......The homophony of the dish is not good, and it cannot appear on the table of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Bitter gourd is not suitable, which contains the word "bitter"., hard life and poverty are taboo for the common people.
(3) Pickles
Maybe you will say that there are so many dishes for Chinese New Year's Eve, why do people still think about eating pickles? It is precisely because the Chinese New Year's Eve meal is so rich that people are tired of eating, and it is very comfortable to change a few bites of pickles to eat. In fact, it is not necessarily a plate to appear on the table, it may be made into sauerkraut fish, sour soup fat beef, hot and sour chicken offal, sauerkraut dumplings, etc. These dishes have no soul without pickles, and they don't taste bad when they eat.
Pickles were produced in the previous economic conditions were not good, and the ingredients were not resistant to storageIt means "poverty".。Who doesn't want to be rich? Eating pickles for Chinese New Year's Eve is unlucky and does not crush.
(1) Celery
Celery is a regular at the table, with a fresh taste, a crisp and tender texture, which can promote intestinal peristalsis. Eating celery during the New Year also has a particularly good meaningThe "celery" of celery is homophonic to "diligent", which has the meaning of diligence and money.
【Stir-fried beef with celery】
We cut off the roots of the celery, remove the old leaves and soak in lightly salted water for 10 minutes. Scrub well and cut into small pieces. Boil water in a pot, add a little salt and cooking oil after the water boils to keep the dish color unchanged. Blanch the celery and remove after 20 seconds. Rinse with cold water and drain.
Wash the beef and cut it into thin slices. Add some light soy sauce, starch and cooking oil, stir well, and marinate for a few minutes. Add some lard to the pan and stir-fry the beef.
After the beef is stir-fried and discolored, add the chili pepper and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, and then add celery and stir-fry.
Add a little salt to taste the celery after it is broken, stir-fry it a few times, and it can be out of the pot.
(2) Head and tail
Fish is an indispensable ingredient on large and small tables, and eating fish during the New Year has the meaning of "having more than enough every year". In fact, not many people love fish, but it is necessary to have fish. What to do? We can buy some individuallyFish head and fish tail, meaning "there is a head and a tail"., both fish and auspiciousness.
【Stewed fish head and fish tail with chopped pepper】
We scrape off the scales, gills and other impurities on the head and tail of the fish, add 1 tablespoon of flour and rub it, and then rinse it off. Put the fish head in a bowl, add a can of beer, green onion and ginger to remove the smell and marinate for 30 minutes.
Brush the pan with oil and fry the fish head. Fry the fish head on both sides and take it out.
Add some lard and rapeseed oil to the pot, stir-fry until fragrant, then add chopped chili, ginger and green onion and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in 1 large bowl of boiling water, add the head and tail of the fish and start to simmer.
After the fish head is broken, add salt to taste and continue to simmer for 20 minutes. After stewing, you can also add some oyster mushrooms, bean sprouts, tofu skin, etc. to stew.
(3) Meatballs
I don't know if you have noticed it, whether it is in the south or the north, meatballs will basically be prepared. It's round and tender to eatIt has the meaning of "reunion" and "consummation". Meatballs with vermicelli will be reunited and complete for a long time.
【Three fresh soups】
We peel the meat of the front legs, wash them and chop them into minced meat. Add a small amount of green onion and ginger water, light soy sauce, starch, and salt, stir clockwise, and stir until the minced meat sticks to the top of the chopsticks.
Remove the roots and leaves of the celery and wash well. Soak the vermicelli in cold water 30 minutes in advance, wash it well, and cut it a few times.
Add some lard to the pan and stir-fry the celery. After stir-frying until fragrant, pour in 1 large bowl of boiling water and bring to a boil over high heat. Roll the minced meat into balls and put it in a pot to cook.
After the meatballs are boiled, add vermicelli, add some light soy sauce and salt to taste, cook for 2 minutes and serve.
(4) Chicken
As the old saying goes"No chicken, no feast"., How can the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner be without chicken? Chickens are in the traditional culture of our countryIt has the meaning of "good luck" and "diligence".I hope that in the new year, everything will be auspicious and diligent and rich.
【Fragrant local chicken soup】
We remove all the internal organs and other impurities of the chicken, add 1 tablespoon of flour and rub it, and then rinse it well.
Put the chicken in a saucepan and add the green onion knots and ginger slices to remove the smell. Put in cold water and cover the chicken. Boil, after the water boils, remove the surface foam, green onion knots, and ginger slices to prevent cross-flavoring. Reduce to low heat and continue to simmer.
Wait until the chicken can be inserted with chopsticks, add salt to taste, and add a little goji berries. After boiling for 15 minutes, sprinkle some chopped green onions and you're ready to cook.
Tip: Chicken that is not blanched should be stewed in cold water, and after the water is boiled, be sure to take out the green onion knot and ginger slices, otherwise it will be easy to skew the flavor.
Conclusion: The customs are different in each place, what do you pay attention to there? Leave a message below the comment and communicate together.