1, Lanzhou bad meat
The main ingredient of Lanzhou bad meat is high-quality pork belly, which is a traditional dish in northwest China, fat but not greasy; Lean meat is as red as fire. The more you chew, the more delicious it is. It is appetizing and increases your appetite.
The so-called bad meat is made by adding bad tofu (that is, red fermented bean curd) and other seasonings, blending into juice, evenly wrapping it on pork belly slices and steaming it in a pot. Every New Year, every household in Lanzhou will cook ten bowls, eight bowls, or even twenty or thirty bowls of bad meat in advance and store them. Or send friends, or entertain visitors, as well as family members to enjoy, is a must-have dish for Chinese New Year with lotus leaf cakes.
2. Buckle your elbow
Buckling elbows is basically a must-have dish for every household in Lanzhou. Elbows can be divided into front elbows and back elbows, and front elbows (also known as front hooves) are thick in skin, full of tendons, heavy in gum and lean in meat. They are often cooked with skin, fat but not greasy, and should be roasted, grilled, stewed in sauce, marinated and made into soup, such as braised elbows, braised elbows with Chinese cabbage and braised elbows.
3. Braised meat with plum vegetables
Braised pork with plum vegetables is a Hakka dish, but its position in the New Year's Eve dinner can be the same as that of Lanzhou bad meat. Braised pork with plum vegetables is unique in shape, generous and decent, with bright red sauce, thick and delicious soup, fat but not greasy, and soft, rotten and mellow.
Plum dishes are golden in color, fragrant, sweet and refreshing, neither cold nor dry nor wet nor hot. It absorbs the oil and soup of pork belly, and the taste is enriched immediately. The pork belly is fragrant with plum dishes, and they achieve mutual success, whether it is lotus leaf cake or rice.
4. Lanzhou leek
Radish, cabbage, vermicelli, meatballs, tofu, potatoes … plus three pieces of fat! This is the old Lanzhou people's former hospitality dinner, called "old Lanzhou bowl dishes." It is made of sparerib soup or braised pork with water as the soup base, and then stewed with various ingredients.
But no matter what kind of soup base, meatballs, Chinese cabbage, tofu and vermicelli are indispensable, and other ingredients can be added according to your own preferences. The prepared braised dishes are rich in ingredients and comprehensive in nutrition. Whether it's rice, steamed bread or flower rolls, it's a good partner. And is suitable for all kinds of people.
5. Four Joy Meetballs
Before Lanzhou, every household began to prepare fried meatballs, which were divided into vegetarian meatballs and meatballs. Maruko indicates reunion, and the fried maruko can be braised in soy sauce and made into soup, not to mention how delicious it is.
Four Joy Meetballs is composed of four meatballs with good color, fragrance and taste, which embodies four happy events: happiness, luck, longevity and happiness. It is often used as the final dish in wedding banquets, birthday banquets and other banquets to take its auspicious meaning.