Henan family of 3 Spring Festival relatives, was "a bunch of hard dishes" to entertain, real relatives are enthusiastic 1, old-fashioned sweet and sour fish 2, Daokou roast chicken 3, sea cucumber fried squid 4, eggplant sauce prawns 5, buckle bowl lamb 6, marinated beef 7, steamed lamb chops 8, broccoli roasted shiitake mushrooms 9, rib steamed bowl 10, apricot abalone mushroom fried fungus 12, eight treasure rice - Lao Jing said——

"Walking relatives" is one of the traditional customs of the Spring Festival in China, and it is also the best way for relatives to exchange feelings and sympathize with each other. The time is generally from the second day of the first month of the first month, and there are many relatives who have not even finished until the fifteenth and sixteenth of the first month, and most people will stay at the relatives' house to eat, nag and talk about home. New Year's family of 3 to the uncle's house to go to relatives, the uncle began to prepare ingredients a day in advance, when eating enough to prepare 12 "hard dishes" to entertain us, really relatives are enthusiastic, plates and plates are hard dishes, according to Henan dialect on a word "in".

<h1 style="text-align: left;">1, old-fashioned sweet and sour fish</h1>

This old-fashioned sweet and sour fish in Henan, the meat is tender and not fishy, the soup is fragrant, the taste is mellow and authentic, and the taste of this hometown cannot be made by any restaurant. And in the countryside of Henan, there will be a custom when eating fish, when the fish is served to the table, the fish head to whom to drink three glasses of wine, after drinking everyone can move chopsticks to eat, this is Henan's "fish head wine". In addition, when eating, there is also a special point, that is, the fish can not be eaten, to ask for a "more than every year" good color head.

In Henan, in addition to eating fish, but also eat chicken, meaning "great luck and great profit". Among them, Daokou roast chicken is a special dish in Henan, bright color, soft and deboned, generally during the New Year, every household will buy a roast chicken to entertain guests, chop the whole chicken into small pieces before the table, if a meal can not be eaten, will also be leftovers and roast chicken into a pot of "big stew", the taste is not to mention the flavor.

Rural food looks grounded, but everything is hard. From this simple sea cucumber roasted squid can be seen, sea cucumber cut into long strips, if you do not look carefully, you really do not know, it is estimated that rural people are so "low-key". The squid is tender and smooth, the sea cucumber Q bullet is soft and sticky, with the aroma of green onions, fused with each other, full of umami, just on the table was snatched up by children.

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This eggplant sauce prawn is sweet and sour, fresh and fragrant, although it is in the countryside, but the prawns have been handled clean, shrimp lines and shrimp heads have been picked out in advance, eat clean and hygienic. And this prawn is very fresh, eating in the mouth is full of delicious taste, there is no fishy taste of seafood.

Buckle bowl is a specialty of Henan, generally New Year's visit to relatives, there will be a variety of buckle bowls on the dinner table, such as balls, crispy meat, curd meat, etc., as many as dozens of kinds, a fried one steamed a buckle, delicious and distinctive. This bowl of lamb is a good dish of relatives' families, lamb is fragrant, fat but not greasy, thin and not chai, and it is very enjoyable to eat one bite at a time.

In the countryside, as long as there are guests visiting the New Year home, there will be several dishes, of which marinated beef is indispensable, the meat is firm, and the fresh flavor does not plug the teeth. Put the marinated beef in the refrigerator in advance, wait for the guests at home, and everything is a hard dish, not only the drinker likes it, but also the children are not enough to eat one by one.

This is also a big "hard dish" - steamed lamb chops, Henan people like to wrap all kinds of meat wrapped in starch and fried, to be eaten when taken out to steam a steam, this dish does not look good, the taste is really a must, lamb chops soft rotten and fragrant, a bite down immediately deboned, a piece of lamb chop fist size, you can eat a half full, I have to say, rural meals are really beneficial!

In the countryside, guests rarely eat vegetarian dishes for the New Year, and this broccoli roasted shiitake mushroom is estimated to be the only green vegetable on the table. Without too much processing, blanch the broccoli and stir-fry the shiitake mushrooms for a while, then add a little soy sauce and salt to taste, light and fresh, degreasing and appetizing.

This is a famous steamed pork rib bowl in the north, and it is also a must-have special food for the New Year in the countryside. A large bowl of fragrant ribs, tender and delicious, crisp and delicious, all tastes of childhood. Henan people have a special obsession with steaming bowls and buckle bowls, and in the hearts of Henan people, if anyone does not do this during the Spring Festival, it will be a lot less of the atmosphere of the New Year.

<h1 style="text-align: left;">10, apricot abalone mushroom fried fungus</h1>

This apricot abalone mushroom stir-fried fungus, is the most "exquisite" dish in the whole table, the whiteness of the apricot abalone mushroom, the pink tenderness of the pork belly with a little fungus, plus a little green onion, the taste is fragrant, the taste is smooth, and it is also considered to be full of color and flavor.

11. Fried spring rolls

Spring roll is a must for the New Year", bean paste flavor of spring roll sweet crisp, golden and very tempting, and the spring roll in the "spring" has the beautiful meaning of welcoming the spring auspicious celebration, congratulations on the New Year, and the spring roll with the shrimp slices, colorful shrimp slices "melt in the mouth", generally each family will be matched according to their preferences to serve on the table.

<h1 style="text-align: left;">12, Eight Treasure Rice</h1>

Eating eight treasure rice is the New Year, this seemingly inconspicuous small dish, every household will make it during the New Year. Mix the rice and glutinous rice, sprinkle with sugar, add red dates, peanuts, preserved fruits, lotus seeds and other ingredients, steam the soft glutinous rice, when you eat a spoon, I a spoon, full of sweet taste. If anyone has less of it on the Table for the New Year, the taste of the Year will be less flavorful.

In China's hospitality culture, but all the guests at home will take out the best meals to entertain, although the relatives eat this time are "grounded" ordinary meals, but enough to see the sincerity and enthusiasm. There is a dish of "sea cucumber roasted squid" and grounding gas is not too "matched", in fact, this kind of sea cucumber is not the kind of Liao ginseng we eat in the restaurant, it is very cheap, a sea cucumber has half a pound, fried a plate of sea cucumber is cheaper than fried a plate of meat, not a rare ingredient.

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