Reading guide in this issue: On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the old traditional family should eat these three dishes, welcome the God of Wealth to home, and welcome Xiang Nafu to make a fortune this year.
Reading guide in this issue: On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the old traditional family should eat these three dishes, welcome the God of Wealth to home, and welcome Xiang Nafu to make a fortune this year.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the "Breaking Five Festivals", on this day, people will break some taboos during the Spring Festival, such as not being able to cook with raw rice, not moving needlework, not cleaning, not breaking things, etc. The word "broken" in the five sections of breaking means breaking and breaking through, symbolizing breaking the old state and welcoming the new year. On this day, people will set off firecrackers and clean up to express their good wishes for the old and the new. At the same time, the fifth festival is also a day to send away the poor god and welcome the god of wealth, which entrusts people's expectations for a happy life and a better tomorrow.
So, what is a good place to eat on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year? The fifth day of the first month is the day to welcome the God of Wealth, the old traditional family to eat some auspicious dishes, these three dishes to be served on the table, welcome the God of Wealth to home, this year to make a fortune.
One: dumplings
Dumplings are a symbol of wealth and good luck in Chinese culture because of their shape resembling ingots, especially on the day of the Fifth Festival, when it is believed that eating dumplings can drive away misfortune and poverty and usher in good luck and wealth in the new year.
Cabbage stuffing Cabbage is the meaning of the homonym "hundred wealth", which means: the meaning of attracting wealth and treasure in the coming year, and the meaning of a hundred wealth.
【Cabbage and pork stuffed dumplings】Ingredients: cabbage, pork front trough meat, 1 egg, 3-4 tablespoons soybean oil, appropriate amount of salt, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 section of green onion, 1 piece of ginger, 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce, half a tablespoon of dark soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon of thirteen spices, half a tablespoon of sugar, appropriate amount of monosodium glutamate, more than a dozen peppercorns, 1 large ingredient, appropriate amount of water
Steps:1The meat with dumpling filling, it is best to choose pork front leg meat, also called: front groove meat, delicate meat, fat and thin, eating will not be greasy, will not be old and hard, very suitable for filling. A 1:1 ratio of cabbage to pork will do, or adjust it to personal taste.
2.Peel the pork, cut it into slices first, and then chop the pork into a meat puree, which should be chopped delicately, and the meat filling is better than that of a meat grinder. Then put the minced ginger into the minced meat, and chop the minced ginger into the minced meat together, which can remove the fishy smell of the meat.
3.Prepare the seasoning, put the pepper and ingredients in a bowl, add warm water and soak for 20 minutes, and when the time is up, take out the peppercorns and ingredients. Finely chop the green onion and ginger, add soybean oil to the pot, heat the soybean oil until it smokes, turn off the heat, and let the oil cool for later use.
4.Put the minced meat in a bowl, knock in an egg, then add salt, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, thirteen spices, monosodium glutamate. Stir well with chopsticks in one direction until the meat filling is sticky.
5.While stirring the meat filling with chopsticks in one direction, pour in the pepper water, keep stirring, do not pour the pepper water at one time, pour the pepper water into the pepper water 3 times, after the first time the water is stirred into the meat filling, add the second time until the water is all stirred into the meat filling. Stir in one direction, don't stir around, because stirring will easily leak the water.
6.Finally, add chopped green onion and soybean oil, put the green onion and oil, the oil can wrap and lock the salt and moisture in the meat filling, stir well in one direction, stir the oil into the meat filling, the meat filling will be mixed, put it in the refrigerator and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes, so that the meat filling and all the seasonings have a full integration and marinating process.
6.During the period, peel off the cabbage leaves, wash them, drain the water, first cut the cabbage into shreds, then chop the cabbage, and finally chop it into grains, put it in a pot, sprinkle it with salt, marinate for more than 10 minutes, and pickle a part of the water in the cabbage. Roll the cabbage into a ball with your hands and remove the water.
7.When the time is up, take out the meat filling, put the cabbage powder into the meat filling, stir well in one direction, and the cabbage and pork dumpling filling is ready.
Two: Pig knuckles
Many places have the custom of eating pig's knuckles, which means: get rich in your hands, windfall in your hands, and look forward to a lot of wealth in the new year.
【Pork trotters in sauce】Ingredients required: 4 pig front hooves, appropriate amount of oil and salt, 1 green onion, 1 piece of ginger, about 20 Sichuan peppercorns, 3 star anise, 5-6 bay leaves, 2-3 dried chilies, 50 grams of soybean paste or dried yellow sauce, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, half a tablespoon of braised soy sauce, 1 teaspoon of chicken essence, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 10 pieces of rock sugar
Steps:1Pig's trotters are best used in pig's front hooves, with hoof tendons, meat, thick skin, a large number of sweat glands contained in the subcutaneous tissue of pig's trotters, and this kind of sweat glands are relatively heavy, pig's trotters need to be roasted with a spray gun or gas stove, and the surface of the pig's trotters is burned, so that the fishy smell of pig's trotters can be effectively removed.
2.Soak the roasted pork trotters in warm water for 10 minutes to soften the burnt pork rind. Use a new steel wool ball to rub the surface of the pig's claws repeatedly, and wipe the burnt surface of the pig's trotters to be white and clean.
3.Wash the pig's trotters, and then use a knife to blanch the blood in the pig's trotters along the two pig's toes 2 3 deep, so that the pig's trotters in the sauce or braised pig's trotters are easier to cook and shorten the cooking time.
4.Blanching is a necessary way to deal with the fishy smell of general meat products, and pig's trotters are no exception. Put the pig's trotters in the pot, add the three-piece set to remove the fish: green onions, ginger slices, cooking wine, and then add cold water, and the amount of water should not exceed the pig's trotters.
Bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the floating foam, cook for 4-5 minutes, and remove the trotters. Blanching pig's trotters should be done with cold water, which can better boil the blood in the pig's trotters, so that the pig's trotters have no fishy smell.
5.Add oil to the pot and heat it, add rock sugar, and stir-fry over low heat until the rock sugar melts.
6.Heat over low heat until the rock sugar turns brown-red, the sugar liquid turns up the brown-red foam, continue to stir-fry, after a while, the foam increases, the color becomes lighter and turns to golden red, then the sugar color is fried, and the green onion, ginger slices, dried chili, bay leaves, peppercorns, star anise, stir-fry evenly, and fry the fragrance of the seasoning.
7.Pour in hot water, do not add cold water, easy to splash oil, the amount of water should not exceed the pig's trotters, and then add cooking wine, light soy sauce, braised soy sauce, soybean paste, oyster sauce, chicken essence, salt, the amount of salt should be more than the usual amount of cooking.
8.Put the pig's trotters in the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, cook for 4-5 minutes, cover the pot, turn to low heat, and cook for 15 hours.
9.After the time, open the lid of the pot, boil the pig's trotters until the pigskin is cracked, prick it with chopsticks, it is easy to pierce it through, if it is not cooked, continue to cook it over low heat, do not take out the boiled pig's trotters, soak them in the miso soup for 2-3 hours to taste, and change the knife to the plate when eating. Don't throw away the leftover sauce, use it to sauce chicken knuckles, beef, or elbows, which taste better.
Three: lettuce
The homonym of lettuce is "to make money", and to eat lettuce is to eat"Make money"After eating, you will have a good way to make money in the new year, prosperous wealth, successful career, and rolling wealth, which has a very good meaning.
【Oyster sauce lettuce】Ingredients: 1 lettuce, appropriate amount of oil and salt, 4 cloves of garlic, 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1 teaspoon of chicken essence, 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce, half a tablespoon of starch, a little sugar
1.It is a ball lettuce used, which is also known as west lettuce, round lettuce, etc., ball lettuce, homonym is the meaning of 'seeking wealth'.
2.Peel off the lettuce leaves, wash them, drain them well, and tear the leaves into large pieces.
3.Finely chop the garlic, add half a bowl of water to the bowl, then add oyster sauce, starch, chicken essence, light soy sauce, a pinch of salt and sugar, stir well and set aside.
4.Add water to a pot and bring to a boil, add a little salt, a few drops of oil, blanch the lettuce for 10-15 seconds, and remove the lettuce.
5.After removing the lettuce, immediately put it in cold water to cool the lettuce quickly, remove the lettuce and drain the water.
6.Place the lettuce on a plate and set aside.
7.Heat oil in a pot, add minced garlic and stir-fry over low heat to bring out the fragrance.
8.Stir the mixture juice well, pour it into the pot, heat the juice until it becomes viscous, and turn off the heat.
9.Drizzle the juice over the lettuce on the plate and a plate of crisp and delicious oyster sauce lettuce is ready.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, welcome the God of Wealth, say "Wishing you prosperity" to everyone, and wish everyone a rolling source of wealth in the Year of the Dragon, welcome the God of Wealth to your home, and make a fortune this year!!
God of Wealth, please help me get rich