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Spring Festival is one of the important traditional festivals of the Chinese people, and it is also a time for families to reunite. And on this day of celebration and peace, a hearty and delicious meal #安吉吉喜喜#cuisine is essential.
Whether it is a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner or a meal for family and friends, the preparation work is always tedious and stressful, so in order to make the day more relaxed and enjoyable, it is a good choice to prepare some auspicious and delicious cold dishes in advance. Today, let's introduce three auspicious Chinese New Year's Eve cold dishes, prepare them in advance, cut everything and serve it on the table, saving trouble and delicious!
1. Pigskin jelly, meaning: flowers bloom richly, beautiful frozen age
Pork skin jelly, as the name suggests, is made with pork skin as the main raw material. Not only is the meat tender, but it is also smooth and fragrant. The pork skin jelly is rich in collagen, which has a good maintenance effect on the skin, making people stay young at the same time, and also alluding to the beautiful meaning of "beautiful frozen age".
Ingredients: pork skin, pig's trotters, ginger slices, green onion, cooking wine, salt, light soy sauce, coriander, garlic
Here's how:
1. Clean the pig's skin and trotters, blanch them in boiling water, remove them and set aside. Cut the skin into thin strips and the trotters into small pieces.
2. Put the blanched pork skin and pig's trotters into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, ginger slices, cooking wine, and green onions, bring to a boil over high heat, and simmer over low heat for 2 hours.
3. Take out the green onion and ginger, pour the soup, pork skin and pig's trotters into the mold, and let it cool until it solidifies. Remove, cut into slices and pour garlic sauce over to serve.
2. Five-spice sauce beef, meaning: the cow is angry
Spiced Sauce Beef is a traditional dish of Lu with an irresistible taste and aromatic seasoning, implying that the cow is in high spirits. In traditional Chinese culture, the ox is a symbol of hard work, tenacity and strength, and eating a bite of beef injects masculinity into the new year, so that the family can have a successful career in the coming year.
Ingredients: beef tendon, ginger, cooking wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rock sugar, bay leaves, star anise, cinnamon, soybean paste, salt to taste
Detailed instructions:
1. Wash the beef tendon and cut it into cubes for later use. Add water to the pot, add ginger slices and cooking wine, boil and blanch the beef tendon, remove and set aside.
2. In another pot, add an appropriate amount of water, add the blanched beef shank, then add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, rock sugar, bay leaves, star anise, cinnamon, and simmer for 2 hours. Soak the stewed beef tendon in the soup overnight, cut it into thin slices when eating, dip the beef slices in the seasoning, and serve.
Three. Saliva chicken, meaning: good luck
Saliva Chicken is a Sichuan dish made with chicken as the main ingredient and spicy seasoning, and its spicy and fragrant taste makes people have an endless aftertaste. On the day of celebration during the Spring Festival, eating a mouthful of saliva chicken symbolizes that the new year will be full of good luck, everything will go smoothly, and good fortune will be good.
Ingredients: chicken thighs, ginger slices, cooking wine, cooking oil, minced green garlic, soy sauce, light soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt, chicken essence, chili noodles, Sichuan pepper powder, cooking oil
Here's how:
1. Wash the chicken thighs, blanch them in boiling water to remove the fishy smell, and remove them for later use. Put the chicken in a pot, add ginger slices and cooking wine, skim off the foam after boiling, add an appropriate amount of salt, and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove the stewed chicken thighs, let them cool and chop them into small pieces.
2. Mix soy sauce, light soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt, and chicken essence in the seasoning to make a sauce. Put the sliced chicken thighs in a large bowl, drizzle with the sauce, sprinkle with chili flakes and peppercorns, and mix well. Finish with hot oil and sprinkle with minced green garlic and serve.
By preparing these three auspicious Chinese New Year's Eve dishes in advance, you can not only ease the kitchen work on the day of the Spring Festival, but also bring delicious taste and auspicious meaning to the whole family. At the moment of reunion, let's taste this delicious cold dish together and spend a happy and warm Spring Festival time together. I wish you all a happy and auspicious New Year!