As a northeast person, there are roughly several kinds of dishes that we must eat during the Spring Festival in Northeast China, but they are different in different places. For example, killing pork dishes, skin jelly, chicken wings, pig's trotters, fish and shrimp are also common dishes. In recent years, lobster, sea cucumber, abalone and other precious seafood have often appeared on the table of every household. Our family recalls that there are basically pig's feet, chicken wings and fish during the Spring Festival every year, and the cold dishes are not fixed. Sometimes the cold dishes will be mixed with bean sprouts, and sometimes they will make a jelly.

the custom of eating fish on New Year's Eve

China people are divided into north and south, and the most indispensable dish on traditional New Year's Eve is fish, and it is usually whole fish, which symbolizes "more than enough every year".

According to different regions, eating fish at New Year's Eve is different. Some places eat fish instead of fish head and tail, which means "there is a head and a tail". In some places, you just look at the table and don't eat it, or you don't eat it all. There is a little left, which means "more than one year". Some places will eat crucian carp with carp, which means good luck. It seems that there is no custom of serving fish on the table in Northeast China.

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Selection of carp

When cooking fish dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner in our family, we generally prefer to choose carp. It is estimated that there is also a saying that carp jumps over the dragon gate, which has not been thoroughly studied. Anyway, our family eats carp the most. It is the most important step to make a good choice of raw materials for a dish. Only when the raw materials are selected, can the chefs at the back have room to play.

it is best to buy live fish. The dishes made by live fish are delicious and tender, and dead fish can never make such a taste.

look at the body shape. It is best to have a flat and compact fish. This kind of fish has more fish and less internal organs, which is healthier and more delicious to cook.

look at your eyes. The eyes of fresh fish are slightly prominent, some are black and white, and there is no bloodshot.

look at the gills. Fresh fish gills should be bright red, not sticky and odorless.

look at the scales. Fresh fish scales will cling to the fish and will not fall off or loosen. There will naturally be a layer of normal mucus on the surface of the fish, which will have a little fishy smell, but there will be no rancid smell.

look at the elasticity. Fresh fish meat is firm and elastic. The meat of stale fish is loose.

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Presumably, everyone has his own ingenious ways to buy fish. The above are some precautions that I will pay attention to when buying fish. If you have any different ingenious ways, please share them and we will learn a lot.

Fish dishes for New Year's Eve

When cooking fish for New Year's Eve, you don't usually make small fish such as hairtail croaker, but make complete big fish such as carp, grass carp and chubby fish. Let's share the practices of several kinds of fish.

Braised carp

Scaled carp is washed, especially the black film inside the belly is removed.

cut several knives on both sides of the fish, do not cut them off, and then apply cooking wine and salt to marinate for 2 minutes.

Bring the oil to the boil. When the oil temperature is 6% hot, put the fish in, fry the fish until it is set, and pour out the excess oil. Wipe the water off the fish body and stomach before putting it in to avoid oil leakage.

leave the bottom oil in the pan and stir-fry chives, ginger, garlic and star anise.

cook cooking wine, soy sauce and vinegar along the side of the pot. Add salt, sugar, and pour water into the fish.

bring the fire to a boil, then simmer for 2 minutes on medium heat. After going abroad, you can sprinkle chopped green onion or coriander as you like.

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Sweet and sour carp

Buy fresh carp, remove scales, gills, and wash them, especially remove the black film from the belly. Don't break your gall when you clean up the fish.

Slice the fish with an oblique knife, but don't cut it.

coat the fish with ginger salt cooking wine and marinate for 2 minutes.

Mix starch flour 1: 1, add an egg and clear water, and stir to paste. Sliced carp are wrapped in the batter.

boil the oil from the pan. When the oil temperature is 5% hot, put it in and wrap it. Then fry the carp and set it. You can put the fish into a beautiful shape when frying. Put it on the plate.

Let's start seasoning juice, sugar, vinegar, salt, tomato sauce, starch, clear water and mix well.

pour the sauce into a pot and fry until it becomes thick. pour the sauce on the fish placed in a plate, sprinkle some side dishes or parsley pieces and serve.

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Because I'm from the northeast, I'm sure everyone knows what I have to eat as soon as I say I'm from the northeast. The famous pig-killing dish in the northeast, in the countryside of the northeast, every family kills pigs. As the old saying goes, it's a pig-killing pig, and friends and relatives will come to help. If you eat pig-killing dish here, the pig must weigh more than 2 kg, and it's a local pig in the northeast every other year. Moreover, a pig will eat until February 2 in the first month, and the pig's head is reserved for February 2. When cooking, cut the meat into four squares, put it in a pot, and then take it out. Don't throw the broth, put it directly into sauerkraut, then cut the meat into pieces. Finally, put the whole fresh blood sausage into sauerkraut and cook it. After cooking, cut the blood sausage into pieces, and then take out the meat and sauerkraut. Friends from the south can go to the northeast to have a look and taste when they have time. What I said is not very comprehensive. I hope everyone can understand. thank you