the first course: braised carp. A fish is essential for the New Year's Eve dinner. The meaning of fish is more than enough every year. There should be money to spend in the coming year, which represents our hope for the new year. The ingredients for braising carp are: one carp, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, aniseed, fragrant leaves, white sugar, aged vinegar, salt, cooking oil, cooking wine, onion slices and ginger slices. 1. Clean the bought fresh carp, wash it several times, wash away the blood, and cut it into pieces on the fish with a knife. 2. Take a large bowl, add 2 tablespoons of aged vinegar, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, a little soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of white sugar to refresh, 1 tablespoon of cooking wine, onion, ginger slices and appropriate amount of salt, and mix well. 3. Roll the fish in the flour, dip it in the flour, and then fry it in the oil pan. After deep frying, remove and control the oil. 4. Leave a little base oil in the pot and put the fried carp, pour in the blended juice, and then add an appropriate amount of water, so that after the fire is boiled, cover the lid and simmer for 3 minutes. Turn the carp over halfway, and stew the fish thoroughly, so that you can taste it. Second course: fried peanuts. Peanut is a favorite appetizer for everyone, which is better than big fish and big meat. It is called "God" dish for drinking and dishes for New Year's Eve, which all have good meanings. Peanut, also called "longevity fruit", can symbolize longevity and health, symbolizing that you can stay healthy and young forever, and even live a long life. There are many nuts in peanuts, which can mean many children and many blessings, symbolizing the blessing of a full house of children and grandchildren, and the prosperity of the family. Fried peanuts is a very simple and easy-to-cook dish. Put a proper amount of oil in the pot, heat the oil to 7%, add peanuts, turn to low heat and fry slowly until the peanuts are golden. The third course is: roast chicken. How can you get chicken on the dinner table of the New Year's Eve? Chicken means auspiciousness, flying high, and the whole family will get together to eat chicken, and business will be booming in the coming year. Roast chicken is a specialty of our side, Texas braised chicken, which is also very convenient to make and can also be bought off-the-shelf. The fourth course: lotus root box. The implication of having lotus root on New Year's Eve is good luck again and again, because lotus root has the meaning of breaking the ties, which means a lot of good things in the coming year! The specific method of frying lotus root box 1. Wash the lotus root you bought, peel it and cut it into thin slices. 2. Add onion, ginger, soy sauce, soy sauce and sesame oil into the pork belly stuffing and marinate for 3 minutes. 3. Take two pieces of lotus root, put the right amount of meat stuffing, pinch it and roll some dry flour. 4. Put more cooking oil into the pot, put the oil into the lotus root box after 8% heat, and fry it until both sides are golden, so there is no need for re-frying. 5. Steam the fried lotus root box for 3 minutes, so that all of them are steamed out at once, frozen in the refrigerator, thawed before eating, and heated in the pot, which is especially convenient as you eat! Fifth course: Stewed trotters. The New Year's Eve dinner is a reunion dinner for the whole family to eat happily together. Many people want to eat pig's trotters at the New Year's Eve dinner, which means "climbing for money" and making a fortune in the new year. Generally, people will choose to buy the pig's front foot during the Spring Festival, because it is equivalent to the pig's "hand". The specific practice of stewed pig's trotters 1. Roast the bought pig's trotters on the fire and roast off the remaining pig hair, which can also remove the odor. 2. Put the pig's trotters in the pot with cold water and add cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, onion and ginger slices. Don't take too long, or the pig's hand won't rot easily. Boil the water for 3 minutes, remember to skim off the floating foam. 3. Put the soybeans, longan, medlar, onion ginger and pig's hand into the rice cooker, and remember to cut the pig's hand with a knife at one end, so that the stewed pig's hand will naturally crack. Add a proper amount of water, not too much water, and stew for 2 hours.