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Korea will definitely eat rice cake soup on New Year's Day, how can you make it yourself at home?

On January 1 of the lunar new year, Koreans eat rice cake soup. It is said that if you eat rice cake soup, you will grow a year longer, also because Korean long rice cake has the meaning of longevity, and after slicing it looks like a copper plate, which carries the meaning of rolling in money. Most Korean rice cake soups are made with beef bone broth and rice cakes, and some are served with eggs and beef.

According to the traditional custom of Korean families, the first day of the new year is the day of the major ancestor worship activities, and only in the home of the eldest son of the family, other relatives will come from all over the world to the home of the eldest son, to participate in the ancestor worship ceremony, the rice cake soup is the most important food at this time of worship. Koreans also serve rice cake soup to their friends and relatives who come to visit them.

After the ritual is held in the morning of the New Year, relatives sit down to eat together. On this morning, rice cake soup is eaten, and this rice cake soup has a very special meaning. In Korea, eating rice cake soup on the day of New Year's means that you are one year older. In addition to rice cake soup, dishes prepared for the festival are also eaten.

The rice cake is made of rice and is somewhat similar to the rice cake we eat, but the difference is that you have to cook the soup first and then put the rice cake into it. The soup base of rice cake soup is very delicate, and it is traditionally made by simmering beef bones for several hours, but nowadays, you can also use fish instead of beef to make the soup.

Trying to savor the must-try Korean New Year's food, rice cake soup, you may want to try it at home! Why don't you try it at home?

1, beaten eggs, hot pan with oil, low heat will be fried egg skin, spatula up, to cool down and cut into half-centimeter wide slices.

2, garlic minced; green onions and nori cut into julienne.

3. Cut the rice cake into 4-millimeter slices and rinse with cool water to soak slightly for a few minutes.

4, beef washed and thinly sliced, blanch the water; boiling water, beef, garlic, pepper, medium-low heat until the remaining 2/3 of the water, about 20 minutes to lift the beef.

5, into the rice cake slices, until the rice cake slices cooked soft, sprinkled with shredded egg, green onion and seaweed, under the salt seasoning can be.

The Korean Spring Festival diet also includes this type of "year-old wine". It is said that if you drink it on the first day of the Lunar New Year, you will be able to get rid of strange diseases, get rid of the bad luck of the old year and live a long life. And in the old saying, there is more "year-old wine is not warm, the meaning of spring", meaning that drink the year-old wine, ushered in a beautiful, new spring.