On the morning of New Year's Eve, most Yuxi people will do such things: go to the vegetable market or catch a fat castrated rooster from their own henhouse, slaughter it, take out its internal organs, wash it and put it away. Boil the whole thing in the pot in the afternoon.
This chicken is an essential protagonist of many Yuxi people on New Year's Eve. However, the rooster is not cooked by one person. When the chicken is cooked, add radish at the same time. When the medium fire radish is cooked, put in a whole washed green vegetable. It is a whole, not cut, and it is the kind of big green vegetable that is more than a foot long. Mother said, handed down from the older generation, this dish indicates auspicious words, such as "in the coming year, the whole family will be clean and honest, and the whole family will live a long and safe life." After a pot of food is cooked, you are not busy eating it. You should put the whole chicken in front of the ancestral shrine as a sacrifice. The New Year's Eve dinner is ready. After setting off firecrackers and burning paper money, you can tear the rooster into shredded chicken by hand, or cut it into chicken pieces with a knife and serve it with homemade water.
Under normal circumstances, this is a must-have dish for many Yuxi people to eat New Year's Eve. Even today, with the improvement of living standards, this dish still appears as scheduled every year.
On New Year's Eve, almost everyone in China has an unusual position.
This day is a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new; This day is a day of reunion; This day is a day to thank your family. On this day, no matter where we are, we all want to go home, go back to our relatives and have dinner together on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve is an indispensable way for every China person who abides by tradition and has nostalgia to celebrate the Spring Festival. Many traditional dishes have also become necessities for New Year's Eve. So, what traditional dishes do Yuxi people need for their New Year's Eve dinner?
Crispy meat
Crispy meat is a meat dish that many Yuxi people like to eat on New Year's Eve. Locals like to cut pork into small pieces on New Year's Eve, mix eggs and wet starch into a paste, sprinkle edible salt, pepper, Tsaoko powder and star anise powder into the egg paste, stir well, then soak the cut pork in the egg paste, fry it in boiling oil until golden brown, and take it out. The crispy meat fried in this way is crispy but not greasy, and the lean meat is soft and chewy. Crispy meat fried on New Year's Eve can be eaten until the end of the Spring Festival, and it is not too greasy.
Boiled vegetables in chicken soup
Every year on New Year's Eve, many Yuxi people have such a dish on their dinner tables: radish, green vegetables, garlic sprouts, Chinese cabbage, leeks and other vegetables, which are boiled into a pot of miscellaneous vegetables with the chicken soup left over from the previous roast chicken. Don't underestimate this miscellaneous dish. In the eyes of the older generation, it is one of the traditional dishes that must be eaten in the New Year.
When Yuxi people eat New Year's Eve together, they eat turnips, cabbages and vegetables in miscellaneous vegetables. The older generation will say "the whole family will be clean in the coming year", when eating garlic seedlings, they will say "the whole family is smooth and the financial resources are rolling", and when eating leeks, they will say "the whole family is safe and live a long life" and other auspicious words.
Boiled chicken in white water
On the morning of New Year's Eve, most Yuxi people will do something like this: go to the vegetable market or catch a fat castrated rooster from their own henhouse, take out its internal organs, wash it and put it away. Boil the whole thing in the pot in the afternoon.
This chicken is an essential protagonist of many Yuxi people on New Year's Eve. However, after the rooster is cooked, people are not busy eating it, but put the whole chicken in front of the ancestors' graves as a sacrifice. When the New Year's Eve dinner is ready, after setting off firecrackers and burning paper money, you can tear the rooster into shredded chicken by hand, or cut it into chicken pieces with a knife, then boil the chicken soup left over from the previous roast chicken with shredded ginger and chopped green onion, and then serve it. Usually, this is also a traditional dish served by many Yuxi people at the end of the New Year's Eve.
You are talking about our Jiangchuan New Year's Eve dinner, not Yuxi's pork, pig bones, chickens and ducks. Pork can't be cooked in one pot, otherwise cold white meat is not delicious, and then lotus root, radish, taro, mountain, green vegetables, mushrooms and so on are served in turn. Only Jiangchuan people can't cook. Yuxi people cook ducks with lotus roots and mushrooms, unlike Jiangchuan people. Cooking a pot for 30 years this year, Jiangcheng people eat until the second day of February, and the floats are pulled. Most of them are eaten on the fifteenth day of the first month. Daxin doesn't cook in the first month, and they have to eat leftovers from the New Year's Eve dinner. This is called inexhaustible. Needless to say, there are more fish every year instead of every year. This means adequate food and clothing. Only Jiangchuan people know this truth.
I think the most essential thing is the long dish, that is, the hodgepodge cooked in chicken soup, which contains green vegetables, green garlic, Chinese cabbage and some bean sprouts, which means it is quite smooth and auspicious, and these dishes can't be cut, but can only be cooked whole leaves.
The indispensable dish of New Year's Eve is cabbage soup. Whether you have money or not, this dish is absolutely indispensable, otherwise it won't be called New Year's Eve.