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What to eat on New Year's Eve

The New Year's Eve dishes such as roasted chicken with chestnuts, buckled pork with preserved vegetables, homemade tofu, and braised lion's head have a good meaning.

1, chestnut roasted chicken (big luck)

In the New Year's Eve dinner, chicken is a must-have dish, and chestnut roasted chicken is a "big luck" to pay attention to. The production method is relatively simple, take a certain amount of chicken, chestnut kernel, and then prepare cinnamon, sesame leaves, pepper, etc., and then stir-fried in the pot, after the aroma of soy sauce, cooking wine on the color to remove the fishy.

2, plum dishes buckle meat (auspicious perfect)

As a traditional dish, plum dishes buckle meat has been very popular, and its meat is fragrant and not greasy, very rice, face value is also very high, there is an "auspicious perfect" meaning. To make this dish, take a strip of pork and the right amount of dried preserved mustard greens, then cook the pork and lift it up, tie the eyes on the pork and smear it with soy sauce for color.

3, homemade tofu (good luck)

Tofu as a common dish, the New Year's Eve dinner naturally can not be absent, because of its white, bright, full block, "good luck" meaning. Take the old tofu, cut it into small pieces, and then cut the green onion, red pepper, followed by a pot of oil, put salt, tofu blocks fried.

4, braised lion's head (reunion)

Lion's head is also a special delicacy, because it is round and rolled, "reunion" meaning. It is not difficult to make, first prepare the meat, put onion and ginger, pepper, eggs, 50g starch, seasoning, oil and other mixing, if possible, can also be put on the breadcrumbs. After resting for 20 minutes, make the meat mixture into a round shape, then start a pot of oil, put the balls in the pot to fry, pay attention to use medium-low heat, keep turning with a spoon.

New Year's Eve Dinner Customs

New Year's Eve dinner, also known as New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, etc., refers to the end of the year on New Year's Eve of the whole family dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient year-end rituals, worshiping the gods and ancestors and then having a reunion dinner. Lunar New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year before, not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the gods and ancestors are worshipped, and the meal is served only after the worship ceremony is completed.

Seats generally have chicken (meaning have plan), fish (meaning year after year), oyster sauce (meaning good market), hairy vegetables (meaning rich), bamboo (meaning rich), lotus root (meaning smart), lettuce (meaning wealth), sausage (meaning long), etc. in order to seek good luck, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner is the reunion of the family dinner, the end of the year, this is the most sumptuous, the most important dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, different from the north and south, and each of them has their own specialties.