The menu for New Year's dinner.

2002-02-06

According to the customs of Fuzhou people in the past, Taiping Yan, rotten fish, rice cake, fried ginkgo, fish ball soup and wooden gold balls are generally indispensable for making New Year's Eve dinner at home. What should we do for our New Year's Eve dinner now? Here, I would like to recommend a New Year's Eve menu provided by Xiao Xiandong and Zhang Ying, senior chefs of Fuzhou Food Garden. This set of New Year's Eve dinner not only retains some old Fuzhou customs, but also suits the innovative tastes of modern people.

Family reunion banquet

May you always get more than you wish for!

Ingredients: Yellow croaker, tomato sauce, sugar, vinegar, minced beef, chopped green onion, garlic and diced bamboo shoots.

Method: Cut the yellow croaker with a cross knife, fry it until it is 80% ripe, take it out, leave the bottom oil in the pot, add the above seasoning, thicken it and pour it on the fish.

New Year cake; rice cake

Ingredients: red rice cake, white rice cake, sugar, water and shavings.

Method: Change the red and white rice cakes into rectangular blocks, dip them in Ru powder and oil them, then take them out and put them on a plate. Put sugar water in the pot, and thicken the rice cake after saccharification.

Ten brocade Taiping swallows

Ingredients: 10 quail eggs, meat swallows, mushrooms, shin flowers, winter bamboo shoots, celery, belly slices, radish, salt, monosodium glutamate, Shaoxing wine and sesame oil.

Method: Mix quail eggs and meat swallows, pour them into a bowl, slice the above raw materials, scatter them in water, take them out, pour Shao wine and sesame oil on them, and put them on the raw materials.

Fried mustard and spring rolls are also essential for New Year's Eve. Mustard symbolizes wealth.

Basheng hotpot

Ingredients: shin flower, shrimp, fresh squid, oyster, moth, sashimi, sturgeon strips, shredded celery, mushrooms, vermicelli, etc.

Method: Boil the delicious hot pot and rinse it into the pot at will.

Preparation of semi-finished New Year's Eve dinner

Cooking New Year's Eve at home, you may find some dishes very troublesome to cook. At this time, in addition to choosing to go to the supermarket to buy clean vegetables, you can also go to Letaoyuan to buy some processed semi-finished New Year's Eve dinner.

Letao Garden has specially prepared some semi-finished products for housewives who are not good at cooking or are afraid of trouble. For example, if you want to eat braised lion's head, but it takes time to cook it, you can buy a processed semi-finished product and cook it in the pot according to the instructions when you get home. These semi-finished products mainly include:

Fish Head in Casserole, Braised Lion Head, Shrimp in Typhoon Shelter, Braised Fish Belly Stewed, Sichuan Meat, Dongpo Meat, Ten Spiced Braised Spareribs, Chestnut Roast Chicken, Old Duck Casserole, Shanghai Fried Fish, Red Dates and Lotus plums, Wuxi Spareribs, Sixi Baked Chef, etc.

The price of semi-finished products is not high, mostly within 20 yuan.

"Le Taoyuan" Address: East of Fuzhou Sanjiaojing Huada Hotel Tel: 783 1 178

(Photo: Hua You Qing Hui)

Excerpt from: Straits Weekly