What to eat at Henan New Year's Eve?
Henan is a place with history and food culture, and Henan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. It retains many very traditional cultures. Regarding the Spring Festival, the most important traditional festival in China, I will take you to know what the traditional Henan New Year's Eve dinner looks like.
Authentic New Year's Eve can't be without jiaozi.
Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve is the custom of northerners. Eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve means "good luck in the coming year". In Henan people's New Year's Eve dinner, "jiaozi" is definitely the highlight. It's hard to imagine a New Year's Eve dinner without jiaozi. Even though many people arrange New Year's Eve dinner in restaurants and hotels, there is no dish in Henan that can cover the dinner table of jiaozi's New Year's Eve reunion! Jiaozi will be set up round and round from the periphery until it is full, which is also commonly known as "circle blessing".
There is also a special way to eat: jiaozi and noodles will be cooked together, named "gold thread penetrates gold ingot". The combination of gold thread and gold ingot not only makes people feel happy, but also has a strong taste, which makes people caress in their hands and eat auspicious wealth, and there will be a sense of satisfaction from the inside out.
Add water to the soup pot to 1/2, add a little salt and mix well; The fire boils and slides jiaozi along the edge of the pot; Cook until the jiaozi floats, add vermicelli, and cook until the vermicelli is cooked, and the golden thread with good color and flavor penetrates the ingot.
Fish is the second leading role.
Besides jiaozi, fish, because of its homophonic meaning, has the symbol of "more auspicious and festive" and "more than every year", and has also become the second protagonist in the dinner table of Henan people on New Year's Eve. Braised carp is the most common practice.
Wash the fish with a cutting knife, smear salt and cooking wine for pickling 10 minute; Heat the pan, pour oil, add carp and fry until it is solidified; Knot the onion, slice the ginger, smash the garlic, and put it in a pot with pepper, star anise, fennel and dried pepper; Stir-fry until fragrant, add sugar, soy sauce, soy sauce, salt and appropriate amount of boiling water, boil over high fire and simmer for 20 minutes; Collect the juice until it is thick, put it on a plate and sprinkle with coriander.
Huimian, Henan, exists in the hearts of every Henan person.
Everyone in Henan will have a emblem complex. A friend of mine in Henan, as soon as he heard the emblem, his eyes immediately lit up.
Mix the dough with a little Microsoft (put salt in it); Once every half hour, 3 or 4 times in total; Wake up for at least 3 hours, otherwise your face will be weak; Beef with bones, or stewed mutton, only ginger is put in the soup, and even salt is not put; The meat stew is almost rotten, and the meat will be fished out later; Boning and degreasing continue to return to the pot for stewing; Baking pot; Prepare coriander, chopped green onion, shredded tofu skin and kelp for later use; Half an hour before cooking, write all the noodles into strips two centimeters wide, grease both sides, and wake up for another half an hour; Open the long noodles, draw them longer and longer, and draw them into fine noodles; Cook in a pot, and when the dough is cooked, put kelp and spinach together to cook; Prepare a large bowl and add minced meat, coriander, shredded tofu skin, chopped green onion, salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper; Put the cooked noodles in and pour in the stew.
The diet in Henan is mainly simple and simple. Henan classic dishes, Hu spicy soup, buckle bowl of crispy meat and so on, which are usually eaten outside, will also appear on the dinner table on New Year's Eve. Not only will it not appear perfunctory, but for Henan people who are in a foreign land, they can also eat the most authentic home cooking on New Year's Eve, and the happiness index will soar instantly. People who don't go home for the New Year can also cook hometown dishes and feel the taste of home. Little friends who are already greedy, let's study together.
Chili soup
Put a proper amount of water into the pot, add broth, add Hu spicy soup, pepper, pepper and so on. Let it boil on the fire; After the water in the pot is boiled, add mutton and gluten. When the mutton and gluten are cooked, pour a proper amount of gluten water into the pot, cook until the soup becomes thick, add vermicelli, onion, salt, monosodium glutamate and soy sauce, and simmer for 5 minutes. Take the pot to fill the soup, and add appropriate amount of sesame oil and vinegar according to personal taste.
Buckle bowl crispy meat
Wash pork and cut it into chopsticks, one inch long; Eggs, starch, flour and oil are made into a small crisp paste, and the meat is mixed well; Pour oil into the pot, the oil is 60% hot, put the mixed meat strips into the pot and fry until the color is slightly yellow, and remove the heavy oil at one time; Put the fried meat into a bowl, and add star anise, pepper, onion, ginger, monosodium glutamate, broth, salt, cooking wine and soy sauce. Steam on high fire for 90 minutes. If you can't wait, you can use a pressure cooker, which will take more than ten minutes.