Simple New Year's Eve dinner recipes:Winter melon and carrot ball soup, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, steamed rice cakes, carrot dumplings, fried sesame leaves and so on.

1, winter melon and carrot ball soup

Ingredients: winter melon, carrot juice. ? Seasoning: lard, refined salt, chicken essence, seasoning fresh, scallions, sesame oil. You can wash the dried shrimp and put in the water for ten minutes, can reduce the fishy flavor, in the meat filling add appropriate amount of ginger, salt, pepper, seasoning, raw flour and other seasonings, should be mixed in one direction evenly on the strength.

2, sweet and sour carp

It is said that this dish first originated in Jinan Lokou, and then gradually spread to Shanxi, Henan and other places. In Henan, dishes such as Sweet and Sour Fish and Carp Baked Noodles were formed. According to "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu", carp baked noodles were popular in the market during the Northern Song Dynasty. Fish meat color jujube red, soft and fragrant; baked noodles as fine as hair, fluffy and crispy.

3, braised pork

Braised pork is a famous popular dishes, belonging to the hot dishes. Its pork as the production of the main material, the best choice of fat and lean three layers of meat (pork) to do, practice as many as twenty or thirty kinds. Braised pork cooking skills, pots and pans to casserole-based, made out of fat and thin meat, sweet and fluffy, melt in your mouth. Braised pork is widely circulated throughout China, has a certain nutritional value.

4, steamed rice cakes

Steamed rice cakes are many areas in northern China over the Spring Festival when a holiday folk tradition, the festival to eat rice cakes have an auspicious meaning. Ming Chongzhen years engraved in the "Emperor Beijing Scenery" an article recorded that the people of Beiping at that time in the "New Year's Day in the first month, eat millet cake, said the year cake". After the sweet rice cake cools and hardens, it must be carefully coated with a layer of cooking oil to prevent mold.

5, carrot dumplings

Dumplings originated in ancient times. The original name of the dumpling is "Jiao Er", which was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, the medical saint from Nanyang, China, and has a history of more than 1,800 years. It is a traditional specialty food loved by the Chinese people, also known as dumplings, is the staple food and local snacks of Chinese folklore, as well as the New Year festival food.