What are the auspicious dishes for Chinese New Year? What are the auspicious foods for Chinese New Year?

We all know that every year during the Spring Festival, every family will gather together to eat a New Year's Eve dinner, which is also called a reunion dinner. It is an important meal, and generally a variety of delicious dishes will be prepared, especially dishes with auspicious meanings. So what are the auspicious cooking oils for the Spring Festival? Let's take a closer look!

What are some auspicious dishes for Chinese New Year?

1. Good luck - Chicken stewed with mushrooms

Main ingredients: a chicken, some dried mushrooms or shiitake mushrooms

practice:

Wash the chicken, chop it into pieces, and soak it in clean water to remove the blood. Change the water several times until the water becomes clear.

Pour oil into the pan and sauté scallions, ginger, garlic and star anise. Add the chicken into the pan and stir-fry until the skin shrinks and changes color. Add cooking wine, add sugar and stir-fry until the sugar melts and coats the chicken pieces. Add some fresh soy sauce and add soup after coloring.

When half of the soup is left in the pot, add the mushrooms and stew until the soup is thick, then add pepper and salt to taste.

Features: A traditional Northeastern dish, chicken stewed with mushrooms. Eating chicken during the Chinese New Year means "good luck", isn't it auspicious?

2. Peace is a blessing

Main ingredients: pork belly, quail eggs, Chiba tofu

practice:

1. Cut the pork belly into pieces the size of ribs, boil the quail eggs, peel and clean them, and cut the thousand-layer tofu into pieces of similar size to the pork belly.

2. Fry the quail eggs and thousand-layer tofu separately until golden brown, then remove from the pan and drain the oil.

3. Blanch the pork belly and wash it. Add oil to the pot and add rock sugar to stir-fry until the sugar turns brown. Add the pork belly and stir-fry on low heat until it turns brown. Add large pieces of scallion, ginger, and garlic, add cooking wine and dark soy sauce to adjust the color. Add soup and simmer on low heat until the pork belly is tender.

4. Add quail eggs and thousand-layer tofu into the pot, stew with the pork belly for a while, and cook over high heat until the soup is dry.

Features: The pork belly is "fat but not greasy, lean but not dry", the quail eggs are fresh and delicious, and the thousand-sheet tofu absorbs the pork belly's broth and is slightly chewy. The most important thing is that this dish is particularly suitable for the occasion. The pork belly is bright red and attractive, the quail eggs represent peace, and the thousand-sheet tofu represents blessings. Is it a peace dish for the New Year's Eve dinner?

3. Rich: Celery and Cashew Shrimp

Main ingredients: celery, cashews, shrimp

practice:

1. Remove the shrimp thread and clean the shrimp. Wash the celery and slice it diagonally. Deep-fry the cashews in cold oil until golden brown and then remove from the pan.

2. Blanch the shrimp and celery in boiling water, remove from the water, let cool and set aside.

3. Add oil to the pan and sauté scallions, ginger and garlic. Add celery and shrimp and stir-fry. Add cooking wine. Add salt, pepper, a little sugar and starch and stir-fry evenly. Sprinkle with fried cashews before serving.

Features: Celery is light and tasty, shrimp is crisp and tender, cashews are crisp and delicious. The key meaning is "rich", which is a particularly festive dish.

4. Abundance every year - Steamed fish

Main ingredients: One fresh marine fish

practice:

1. Wash the fish, remove the scales, gills and internal organs, then clean it again. Massage the fish with scallion, ginger, cooking wine and pepper, then let it sit for about 20 minutes to allow it to fully absorb the flavor.

2. When the water starts to boil, put the fish in and steam for 6-8 minutes. Take it out and drain the juice from the steamed fish and remove the green onion and ginger from the fish.

3. Arrange the fish with chopped green onions again, pour the hot oil over the fish, and pour the steamed fish soy sauce on the edge of the plate.

Features: The fish is sweet and delicious, light and palatable. The most important thing is that fish must be eaten during the Chinese New Year, so that "there will be surplus every year" and "wealth comes with fish". The fish must be served whole to reflect the meaning of this dish.

5. Fortune as vast as the East Sea – Seafood Family Portrait

Main ingredients: large shrimp, sea cucumber, squid, scallops, fish fillet

practice:

1. Slice the sea cucumber diagonally, put the sea cucumber, squid flowers and scallop cubes into boiling water and blanch them, then remove and cool.

2. Add egg white, salt, cooking wine and starch to the shrimps and fish fillets and mix well to coat them with starch.

3. Put the marinated shrimps and fish fillets into the warm oil pan and fry until cooked, then remove from the pan and drain the oil.

4. Leave some oil in the pan and sauté scallions, ginger and garlic. Add diced scallops, squid, sea cucumber, fish fillet and shrimp and stir-fry. Use soy sauce, sugar, pepper, salt and cooking wine to mix a bowl of starch and add it to the pan so that the ingredients are covered with the starch.

Features: salty and fresh, with rich and varied ingredients. The key is that these kinds of seafood are relatively healthy and are particularly good for the human body.

What dishes to eat during the Chinese New Year have good meanings

1. Good luck--braised prawns

Eating shrimps during the Chinese New Year signifies a good year with good weather and good luck. Shrimp is rich in high-quality protein and is one of the most nutritious seafoods.

2. Congratulations and prosperity--braised pig's trotters

Pig's trotters symbolize "digging for wealth" and have the meaning of getting rich in the new year. After eating the pig's trotters, "scratch them and wish for more wealth and happiness in the coming year."

Pig's trotters can be cooked into braised trotters, sauced trotters, peanut trotters, etc. The way of eating is chosen according to your habits.

3. Safe and healthy - Stir-fried French beans with bacon

Bacon is a Sichuan specialty and a must-have dish for my family’s New Year’s Eve dinner.

The straight shape of the green beans is often associated with "prosperity" and "peace in all seasons". The bacon is transparent and shiny, fat but not greasy; the green beans are bright in color and crisp in taste, making them the first choice of vegetables for the New Year's Eve dinner. This dish is a combination of meat and vegetables, meeting the needs of a healthy diet.

4. Abundance every year - braised opium

Fish is a must-have dish for the New Year’s Eve dinner. “No fish, no feast.” Generally, a whole fish is cooked. A whole fish must not be eaten clean, expressing the hope that there will be fish (surplus) every year.

5. You can also try making auspicious stewed chicken, roasted chicken, or a whole chicken, hoping for good luck throughout the year.

6. The auspicious Four-Happiness Meatballs are golden in color, fresh, salty, crispy and tender, with clear sauce and delicious taste.

7. The prosperous sweet and sour spare ribs and braised pork mean that the family’s career and life will be prosperous in the new year.

8. Dumplings for wealth and happiness.

What dishes do we usually eat during Chinese New Year?

1. Braised fish

Every family will buy one or several fish for New Year preparations, which means "abundance every year, surplus year after year"... Braised fish is a classic way of cooking fish, which is simple to operate and tastes delicious!

2. Fried chicken nuggets

Fried chicken nuggets are a dish that every family in my hometown of Henan will make. Two days before New Year’s Eve, every family will set up a stove and fry various delicacies, among which fried chicken nuggets are the one that every family will make, which means "golden rooster brings blessings" and "golden rooster announces good news."

3. Croquettes

Fried meatballs are a classic dish on the Chinese New Year's table. As mentioned above, they are prepared together with fried chicken nuggets, fried spareribs, fried lotus roots... two days before New Year's Eve in rural Henan. It symbolizes "reunion" and is a classic delicacy.

4. Pork ribs stewed with rice cake

In recent years, southern rice cakes have gradually become popular in the north, mostly because they are soft and sticky and have a good taste. Pork ribs stewed with rice cakes stews the deliciousness of pork ribs into the soft and sticky rice cakes, which is delicious and has a good taste, implying "promotion every year."

5. Dumplings

Eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year is a custom in the north, symbolizing family reunion and bringing in wealth and treasure. In rural Henan, it is a vigil dinner that every family will have, and it is also a delicacy that is eaten during every festival. The family sitting together to make dumplings is also a symbol of harmony and reunion.

6. Stir-fried lettuce

During the Chinese New Year, there are all kinds of fish and meat on the table. It is better to have some vegetables to relieve the greasiness. That is stir-fried lettuce, which means "making money in a proper way"! There are many ways to cook lettuce. You can also try vegetable salad and cold lettuce, which are all very greasy dishes.

7. Stir-fried French beans

Stir-fried French beans is a classic among French beans. It has a good texture and flavor, which means "making money in all seasons". Of course, stir-fried French beans and French beans with soy sauce are both very good delicacies.

8. Braised Pork Trotters

Braised pig's trotters are full of flavor and collagen, which is a good product to satisfy your cravings and means "wealth comes with your hands"! Many beauties like to eat pig's trotters because there is a lot of collagen in them, which helps to beautify and keep young!

Auspicious menu for Chinese New Year

Jiangmi meatballs: taken from the shape, symbolizing reunion

Roast pork chop: the shape symbolizes rising step by step

Vermicelli Prawns: Taken from the shape, symbolizing prosperity and prosperity

Braised yellow croaker: The name is taken from the meaning of abundance every year.

Braised chicken feet: The shape symbolizes "earning money"

Roast Chicken: Taken from the name, symbolizing good luck

Chinese people pay attention to "auspiciousness" in everything during the Chinese New Year, and the preparation of dishes is no exception, especially the New Year's Eve dinner and the New Year's Day meal. Not only must the color and taste be good, but also have a good start, implying peace, health, happiness, wealth and surplus in the new year.