Mid-Autumn Festival dinner menu: Stewed pomfret with radish, lamb with cumin, steamed swimming crab, garlic chrysanthemum, winter melon ball soup.
1. Stewed pomfret with radish
Prepare ingredients: pomfret, radish, pork belly, onions, ginger slices, garlic, cooking wine, salt, cooking oil, and coriander.
Specific method: clean the pomfret, cut into sections, and cut the radish into thick slices. Add a little cooking oil to the hot pot, add onions, ginger slices, and garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, add radish slices, add light soy sauce, and soybean paste and stir-fry until colored, pour in water, add pomfret, and simmer for 20- 30 minutes, until the fish is cooked through and the radish is soft and glutinous. Season with salt and serve.
2. Cumin mutton
Prepare ingredients: mutton, pepper, onion, ginger, starch, salt, chili powder, cumin powder, cooking oil.
Specific method: Cut the mutton into pieces, wash off the blood, and squeeze out the excess water. Add onion, ginger, a little pepper, egg white, and light soy sauce, mix well, marinate for 20 minutes, then add a little starch, and mix evenly. Add an appropriate amount of cooking oil to the pot, heat it up, add the mutton, stir-fry quickly until the mutton changes color, take it out and set aside. Add cumin powder and chili powder, stir-fry over low heat until fragrant, add mutton and stir-fry evenly.
3. Steamed swimming crab
Prepare ingredients: swimming crab and shredded ginger.
Specific method: Clean the swimming crabs and scrub them. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add shredded ginger, steam the swimming crabs over high heat for 15-20 minutes.
4. Garlic chrysanthemum
Prepare ingredients: chrysanthemum, garlic, salt, cooking oil.
Specific method: wash the chrysanthemum, dry it, and cut it into long sections; mince the garlic and set aside. Heat oil in a pan, add minced garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, then add chrysanthemum and stir-fry evenly, season with salt and enjoy.
5. Winter melon ball soup
Prepare ingredients: winter melon, meat filling, ginger, green onion, light soy sauce, salt, sesame oil, coriander, and cooking oil.
Specific method: Peel the winter melon and cut into pieces. Add minced green onion, minced ginger, light soy sauce, salt, sesame oil, and a little starch to the meat filling. Stir evenly and divide into small balls for later use. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add the winter melon pieces and ginger slices, bring to a boil, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the meatballs and continue to simmer for 10 minutes, until the meatballs and winter melon are cooked. Finally, add salt to taste and minced coriander for flavor, and enjoy.