A good Lunar New Year's Eve dinner needs to maintain a balanced meal in addition to being delicious. Chicken, duck, fish and meat, these meat dishes can account for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the entire menu, but be careful to avoid duplication of ingredients and try to make the ingredients more abundant. Vegetables in green, white, red, purple and black are best to have all five colors, and cooking more steamed. Specifically, try the following 8 dishes.

A, livestock

Sea vegetables water chestnut meatballs

Moral: reunion

Raw materials: seaweed, water chestnut, pork.

Practice: Boil the kelp softly and beat it into a paste. Chop the water chestnut and put it into the meat mixture and mix it into meatballs. Then steam on the pot to cook.

Nutritional comments: The veggies are quietly added to the meat, making the whole dish both high in fiber and rich in potassium.

Alternative dishes: Boiled beef with golden needles. Sauté ginger and garlic, add spicy cabbage and sauté to bring out the red oil, then add boiling water. When the soup boils, add the enoki mushrooms and season with salt and pepper. Remove the vegetables from the soup and pile them in the center of a large soup bowl. When the soup boils, boil the fat beef, turn off the heat immediately when the fat beef turns white and floats, fish in the soup bowl and sprinkle with cilantro segments.

Two, poultry

Holocaust Glutinous Rice Chestnut Chicken

Morals: family harmony

Raw materials: chicken thighs, ripe chestnuts, ginger, glutinous rice, blistering lotus leaves, blistering marjoram leaves.

Practice: Chicken thigh meat chopped into pieces, marinate for half an hour. Wrap the glutinous rice, chestnut meat and chicken pieces together with lotus leaves, tie the marionette rope and steam in a drawer for 50 minutes.

Nutritional comments: low-temperature cooking to retain more nutrients. Chestnut is rich in dietary fiber and minerals, which can make up for the lack of dietary fiber in chicken and glutinous rice.

Alternative Dishes: Roasted Chicken with Precious Mushrooms. Chicken chopped pieces, straw mushrooms, white mushrooms, portobello mushrooms and other clean. Pan hot, burst incense onion ginger, under the chicken pieces stir fry, under the cooking wine slightly simmering. Add soy sauce for color, add mushrooms and mushroom soup. Boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat to cook. This dish tastes

Dao fresh, and rich in protein and B vitamins.

Three, fish

Emerald pine perch

Symbol: Yearly

Ingredients: perch, mushrooms, yucca slices, ham, green vegetable heart.

Methods: De-bone the sea bass and slice it into tiles, then marinate it with green onions and ginger. Mushrooms and yucca sliced and blanched in boiling water and drained. Ham with ginger, Huadiao wine steamed, cut into slices. Arrange fish, ham, mushroom and yucca slices in two rows, sprinkle with green onion and ginger slices, and steam in a drawer. Blanch the vegetables in boiling water, arrange them on both sides and in the center of the fish, and pour the soy sauce over them.

Nutritional Comments: Low-temperature cooking makes the fish tender with less loss of nutrients. Add plenty of vegetables to the meat to increase the vegetable ratio.

Alternative dishes: Sauteed river crab. Cut the crab, add garlic cloves, small onions and stir fry, and finally sprinkle with cooked sesame seeds.

Four, Mushroom

Oyster Sauce Orchid Vegetarian Abalone

Moral: Magnificent

Ingredients: apricot mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, oyster sauce, water starch, olive oil.

Methods: Cut oval slices of apricot mushrooms with a diagonal knife, slice carrots and garlic. Blanch broccoli in boiling water and put it on a plate. Stir fry the apricot mushrooms and carrot slices with flavor, then pour in oyster sauce and stir fry, serve. Add a small half bowl of chicken broth, thicken the sauce and pour over.

Nutritional comments: Vegetarian meat to do, apricot mushrooms are rich in fungal polysaccharides and a variety of amino acids, on the prevention of constipation, as well as diabetes, high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure patients with therapeutic benefits. Broccoli is rich in

carotene, lutein, calcium, folic acid, magnesium, potassium, and is anti-cancer cuisine.

Alternative dishes: Precious Mushroom Alfalfa Tips or Shepherd's Purse. Slice porcini and white lingonberries, sauté them, and place them in the center of the plate, surrounded by vegetables on the side.

V. Vegetarian

Western Sauce Eight Precious Lettuce Buns

Symbolism: spring blossoms

Ingredients: Lettuce, leeks, seaweed, shredded dried scallops, rice, diced carrots, portobello mushrooms, roasted pine nuts, peas, Diced shiitake mushrooms.

How to make it: Stir fry the seaweed and other ingredients, add the rice and stir fry. Add pine nuts and scallions before removing from the pan. Wrap them in lettuce, tie with blanched until slightly softened chives and place on a plate.

Nutritional comments: The dish has rice, as well as a small amount of meat, a variety of vegetables and mushrooms, a more balanced nutritional mix.

Alternative dishes: Stir-fried pea tips. Wash the pea tips into the frying pan, stir fry on high heat, add wine, salt, monosodium glutamate can be out of the pot.

Six, beans

peas and shrimp fried tofu

meaning: blessed with more

Raw materials: peas, shrimp, tofu, goji berries.

Practice: Fresh peas, preferably pre-cooked (if you don't have them, frozen is fine), are stir-fried with shrimp, tofu, and goji berries.

Nutritional comments: Rich in amino acids, soy isoflavones and minerals and other nutrients.

Alternative dishes: Yipin Grilled Tofu. Blanch small white jade mushrooms, crabmeat mushrooms, carrots and asparagus, then sauté in a pan. Add water and bring to a boil, thicken with water starch, then pour over steamed tofu.

Seven, cold

Orange Juice Lotus Root Slices

Meaning: A Good Spouse

Ingredients: Lotus root, oranges, lemon juice, honey.

Practice: squeeze orange juice. Sliced fresh lotus root is slightly blanched in boiling water, soaked in pure orange juice, flavored with lemon juice and honey.

Nutritional comments: fresh orange juice without additives, with honey, lemon juice, rich in vitamin C and other nutrients, taste refreshing.

Alternative dishes: Big Mix. Use small tomatoes, purple kale, colorful peppers, cucumber, lettuce, etc. Wash and cut into pieces, seasoned with salt, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, sesame oil, peanut rice, sesame seeds, etc. and mix well.

Eight, soup

Tomato brisket soup

meaning: red hot

Raw materials: brisket, tomatoes.

Practice: brisket with water soak bleeding water, boiling water blanch bleeding foam. Tomatoes are washed and cut into small pieces. Soup pot with water to boil, put the brisket and part of the tomato pieces, add green onion, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, star anise, etc., open the pot and then turn to low heat and slowly simmer for 1 hour. Then add the rest of the tomatoes, add salt and soy sauce, and simmer for another half hour.

Nutritional comments: This soup is rich in lycopene, potassium, dietary fiber and protein, with a reasonable combination of nutrients, and slightly acid appetizing.

Alternatives: Sauerkraut Old Duck Soup. Stewing duck with sour mustard greens or sour radish and tangerine peel can open the stomach and remove dampness.