The top ten dishes of spring cake roll are fried sauerkraut powder with meat, fried bean sprouts with shredded pork, fried shredded potatoes, fried eggs with leeks, fried shredded pork with leeks, fried shredded pork with cabbage, fried vermicelli with carrots, shredded beef with shredded chicken, shredded bamboo shoots with Beijing sauce, which are very nutritious.

There are many ways to make spring cakes, and the side dishes in different regions may be different, but the general side dishes are composed of three meats and three vegetables plus two seasoning dishes.

Generally, we can choose shredded pork, shredded egg skin, shredded ham, mung bean sprouts, carrots, spinach, bean sprouts, leeks, shepherd's purse, coriander, tomatoes, pumpkins, green peppers, etc., which are all seasonal ingredients in spring and are very suitable for making spring cakes.

The origin of eating spring cakes:

The custom of eating spring cakes in beginning of spring originated from the Tang Dynasty, which is also called "biting spring". Because in beginning of spring, when spring came back to the earth, everything revived, and all kinds of vegetables sprouted, people tried them early. The ancients wrapped seasonal vegetables in dough, rolled them into rolls, steamed them or fried them, and named them spring cakes, which symbolizes the bumper harvest of the five grains and is also a symbol of spring, and gave them to each other to welcome the spring.

The original spring cake is a kind of pancake baked or steamed with flour. When it is eaten, it is often eaten with bean sprouts, spinach, leeks, vermicelli and other fried dishes, or eaten with spring cake cabbage.

Beginning of spring, an old Beijinger, eats spring cakes differently from ordinary pancakes. He pays attention to using scalded noodles, which is not only thin, but also can be opened in two.

There must be many dishes in the cake, which should be matched with meat and vegetables. There are meat dishes such as donkey meat, smoked belly, smoked elbow, strips of sauce and small belly with sauce, as well as vegetarian dishes such as fried rice noodles, fried spinach and fried bean sprouts.

Old Beijing also pays attention to eating spring cakes with a head and a tail, that is, before eating spring cakes, dip the sweet noodle sauce with shredded mutton horn and onion, put it in the spring cakes, put a roll of zygote on it, and eat it from one end to the other. This is called "having a head and a tail", which means family happiness.