Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve dinner, which is a reunion dinner for Chinese families, will be Chinese New Year's Eve immediately, all preparing for this most important time, and pleasing a good head in the new year. So at this time, all kinds of "auspicious dishes" will be served on the table, which means the auspicious year of the rabbit.
Chinese New Year's Eve is an auspicious picture. Therefore, even the food is paid attention to a beautiful meaning, such as cabbage means "to collect a hundred wealth", lettuce means "to produce wealth", and yuanzi means "reunion". With this, to draw a blessed and colorful head.
As the old saying goes, "4 dishes don't come to the table, blessings don't come in", what does this "4 dishes" mean? And what is the moral of it?
1. Dumplings - [Attracting wealth into treasure]
Of course, the appearance of dumplings in the north of Chinese New Year's Eve night is indispensable, which is shaped like "ingots", which means to attract wealth and treasure, and has the meaning of auspicious and noble fortune.
Recommended recipe: jade cabbage dumplings
1. First adjust a cabbage filling: use only leaves, chop into pieces, sprinkle with an appropriate amount of salt to kill water, and put in gauze after 10 minutes to squeeze out the water vigorously for later use. Put the minced pork belly into a pot, add salt, chicken powder, pepper, small sesame oil, light soy sauce and fresh, old soy sauce and color and stir evenly, put in green onion and ginger water, beat an egg, stir and beat in one direction until it is vigorous into a ball, then put in chopped cabbage, pour more sesame oil and mix well, and the dumpling filling is adjusted.
2. Then make cabbage dough: melt the spinach powder with water, add an appropriate amount of flour, and knead into spinach dough; In addition, knead another piece of white dough, knead it for 10 minutes, then roll it into long strips, roll the spinach noodles into a rectangle, and wrap it on the outside of the white noodles.
3. Then pinch tightly at the opening, cut into evenly sized dough, roll out into dumpling skin, put in an appropriate amount of dumpling filling, and wrap all the dumplings.
4. The dumplings are boiled in an underwater pot, and the water is ordered three times halfway, the dumplings are round and rolling, all floated up and cooked, jade cabbage dumplings, delicious and good-looking.
2. Sea bass - [more than every year]
Chinese tradition has a saying that there are more than every year, so fish is a must-have dish for Chinese New Year's Eve rice. Fish and "Yu" are the same sound, and they have been used for more than a year, expressing people's good wishes for the new year.
Recommended method: 【Steamed sea bass】
1. Prepare a fresh sea bass, which has been slaughtered, first cut the sides along the back, because the meat on the back is thicker, so that the treatment is easier to steam, and then open from the belly to allow the fish to unfold.
2. Place the green onion at the bottom of the plate, ginger slices can be stuffed in the back of the fish, try to maximize the preservation of the original taste of the fish, need to pay attention to the point can not put salt, salt will make the water loss in the fish meat, green onion, ginger itself can avoid fishy and fresh, cooking wine can also not be put.
3. Steaming this step is very important, pay attention to the water width, fire, steam enough, so must be the whole fire, can not lift the pot in the middle of the way otherwise the meat quality is not tender enough, steamer in the upper atmosphere after the sea bass, a pound of sea bass steamed for 7 minutes can be, steamed for a long time meat quality is easy to get old.
4. Cut some shredded green onion, ginger and red pepper into clean water and soak for a while.
5. After the sea bass is steamed, pick out the ginger slices and green onions, pour out the soup inside, this juice is also particularly fishy, be sure to pour it clean, drizzle with steamed fish soy sauce, put shredded green onion, ginger shredded, red pepper shredded, and finally stir up 200 degrees hot oil, this tender steamed sea bass is ready.
3. Tofu - [Fortune Dufu]
The tofu homonym "Dufu" and "Dufu" is an expression of the working people's prayer for happiness and prosperity in the coming year, which means blessing and well-being.
Recommended method: 【Tofu meatballs】
1. Prepare a piece of old tofu, crush it with the back of a knife and put it in a cotton cloth, and squeeze out the moisture inside. 1 piece of pork belly, peeled and chopped into pieces. Half a carrot, finely chopped, set aside with tofu.
2. Cut some ginger and spring onions, add a little salt, and grab and knead the green onion and ginger water inside. Cut chopped green onion and minced garlic and set aside.
Prepare half a bowl of water, add 2 grams of chicken essence, 2 grams of salt, 10 grams of light soy sauce, 5 grams of oyster sauce to increase freshness, 2 grams of pepper, stir well, put in a little wet starch, drizzle a few drops of dark soy sauce, stir well and set aside.
3. Pour green onion and ginger water into the minced meat, add 2 grams of salt, 2 grams of pepper, 5 grams of oyster sauce to increase freshness, stir well with chopsticks, beat an egg white, stir in one direction, stir until the filling absorbs all the egg whites, then add a little starch, and continue to grab and mix until the filling is a ball.
Prepare a plate Brush evenly with vegetable oil, grab a handful of fillings, form balls in the palm of your hand, and make balls one by one and put them on a plate for later use.
4. Heat oil in the pot, when the oil temperature is 50% hot, gently put the balls into the pot, keep the heat low and fry slowly, and take out the oil control when the balls are scorched and fried to golden brown.
5. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, put minced garlic and fry for a while, after smelling the garlic aroma, pour the bowl into the pot and stir evenly, pour the fried balls after the juice boils, the balls can be evenly covered with the juice and then come out of the pot, and finally sprinkle with chopped green onion, a golden soft tofu meatball is ready.
Fourth, cabbage - Bafang to get rich
As the saying goes: "turnip cabbage keeps you safe", eat more cabbage to get rich, please a good color, cabbage is cheap and affordable and very nutritious, home practice is simple and delicious.
Recommended method: [cabbage stewed tofu]
1. Prepare a piece of old tofu, wash it and cut it into slices. One cabbage, remove the roots, break off the leaves one by one, cut into strips for later use. Prepare a piece of pork belly, peel and cut the meat into slices.
Prepare 30g of chopped pepper paste, cut a little grated ginger and set aside.
2. Heat the pan, add vegetable oil to the pan, and sprinkle the bottom of the pan evenly with salt. Add tofu and fry slowly over low heat, shake the pan often to evenly heat the tofu, fry one side and turn it over and fry the other side, fry until golden brown on both sides.
3. Leave a little base oil in the pot, put in the pork belly and stir-fry the grease inside, pour in the minced ginger and chopped pepper sauce when stir-frying transparent, stir-fry the pepper sauce to stir-fry the moisture, stir-fry until fragrant, pour in the cabbage gang, turn on high heat and fry until it is broken, and then pour in the cabbage leaves and stir-fry together.
After the cabbage is stir-fried and soft, pour an appropriate amount of water along the side of the pot, pour in the fried tofu, add salt, pepper, dark soy sauce, turn on high heat and bring to a boil, then turn to low heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
After 4.5 minutes, turn to high heat to thicken the soup, add chicken essence and stir-fry evenly to get out of the pot, add a little green onion to garnish, and a colorful and fragrant cabbage stew tofu is ready.
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of January 21, the old man said: "4 dishes are not on the table, blessings do not enter the door", they have a beautiful meaning, symbolizing reunion, prosperity, celebration, and excitement in the New Year.
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