A good New Year’s Eve dinner should not only be delicious, but also need to maintain a balanced diet.

Meat dishes such as chicken, duck, and fish can account for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the entire recipe, but care should be taken to avoid duplication of ingredients and try to make the ingredients as rich as possible.

It is best to have five colors of green, white, red, purple and black vegetables, and steam them more often when cooking.

For specific operation, you might as well try the following 8 dishes.

1. Animal, sea, vegetable, water chestnut and meatballs means: reunion. Ingredients: kelp, water chestnut, and pork.

Method: Boil the kelp until soft and beat into a paste.

Chop the water chestnuts and add them to the meat filling to make meatballs.

Then steam it in the pot until cooked.

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

Alternative dish: Beef braised with golden needles.

Stir-fry ginger and garlic until fragrant, add spicy cabbage and stir-fry until red oil is produced, then add boiling water.

After the soup boils, add the enoki mushrooms and season with salt and pepper.

Remove the vegetables from the soup and pile them in the middle of the large soup bowl.

After the soup boils, add the fat beef. When the fat beef turns white and floats, immediately turn off the heat, scoop it into a soup bowl, and sprinkle with coriander segments.

2. Sticky Rice and Chestnut Chicken with Poultry, Lotus Fragrance, meaning: harmony of the whole family. Ingredients: chicken leg meat, cooked chestnuts, ginger, glutinous rice, soaked lotus leaves, soaked lotus leaves.

Method: Chop chicken thighs into pieces and marinate for half an hour.

Wrap the glutinous rice, chestnut meat and chicken pieces together in lotus leaves, tie them with horse lotus rope and steam them in a drawer for 50 minutes.

Nutritional Comments: Cooking at low temperature retains 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 dish: Roast chicken nuggets with rare mushrooms.

Chop the chicken into pieces and wash the straw mushrooms, white mushrooms, mushrooms, etc.

Heat the pot, sauté the onions and ginger, add the chicken pieces and stir-fry, add the cooking wine and simmer for a while.

Add dark soy sauce for color, add mushrooms and soaked mushroom soup.

Bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat.

This dish is delicious and rich in protein and B vitamins.

3. Fish Jade Songjiang Perch means: there will be more than enough every year. Ingredients: Perch, shiitake mushrooms, magnolia slices, ham, green cabbage.

Method: Cut the sea bass into boneless slices and marinate with onion and ginger for flavour.

Slice the mushrooms and magnolia and blanch them in boiling water until thoroughly drained.

Steam the ham with ginger and Huadiao wine and cut into slices.

Arrange a piece of fish, a piece of ham, a piece of shiitake mushroom and a magnolia slice in the order of two rows, sprinkle with green onion and ginger slices, and steam until cooked.

Blanch the cabbage in boiling water, place on both sides and in the middle of the fish, and pour the soy sauce over it.

Nutritional comments: Low-temperature cooking makes the fish tender and reduces nutritional losses.

Add a lot of vegetables to the meat to increase the proportion of vegetables.

Alternative dish: Stir-fried river crab.

Cut the crabs into pieces, add garlic sprouts and green onions, stir-fry until fragrant, and finally sprinkle with cooked sesame seeds.

4. Abalone with mushroom, oyster sauce, orchid, meaning: soaring pride. Ingredients: king oyster mushroom, broccoli, carrot, oyster sauce, water starch, olive oil.

Method: Cut the king oyster mushrooms into oval slices with a diagonal knife, and slice the carrots and garlic.

Blanch the broccoli in boiling water, remove and place on a plate.

Stir-fry king oyster mushrooms and carrot slices until fragrant, pour in oyster sauce and stir-fry until fragrant, then serve on a plate.

Add half a bowl of chicken soup, thicken the gravy to collect the juice, and pour it over.

Nutritional Comments: A vegetarian and meat-based dish, Pleurotus eryngii is rich in fungal polysaccharides and a variety of amino acids, which is beneficial to the prevention of constipation and dietary therapy for patients with diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension.

Broccoli is rich in carotene, lutein, calcium, folic acid, magnesium, potassium, and is an anti-cancer delicacy.

Alternative dishes: alfalfa tips or shepherd's purse.

Slice porcini mushrooms, white mushrooms, etc., fry until cooked and place in the middle of the plate, surrounded by vegetables.

5. Bazhen lettuce buns with vegetarian sauce means: spring is warm and flowers are blooming. Ingredients: lettuce, leeks, dried shrimps, dried beetroot, rice, diced carrots, mushrooms, toasted pine nuts, peas, and diced shiitake mushrooms.