What to eat for the Spring Festival dinner?

How can smoked fish be missing from the menu of Ningbo people's New Year's Eve dinner? As one of the important new year's goods, smoked fish is prepared by every household in Ningbo, and it is also an essential dish in the New Year's Eve dinner, which means "more auspicious and festive". The production of smoked fish is very particular about skills and methods. The "authentic" smoked fish, bright red in color, crisp outside and tender inside, was robbed as soon as it was served.

Broccoli dragging yellow croaker "Broccoli dragging yellow croaker" is a traditional dish in Ningbo. Cabbage is fragrant and is the most famous in the waters near Ningbo. Local residents like to cut Terai into powder, mix it with flour to make paste, dip it in batter with yellow croaker strips, and fry cooked food in oil pan, hence the name "cauliflower dragging yellow croaker". This dish is famous for its rich flavor and tender fish, and is deeply loved by people. It is also a classic snack on the table.

Pot-roasted eel "Pot-roasted eel", a big dish in the New Year, uses white eel in the mountain stream. Wash the eels, kill them, and "dredge"-remove the saliva juice from eels, cut them into pieces several inches long, then stand up one by one, arrange them, tie them with cattail, grease them, put them in cages and steam them in water. After steaming, the pot is naturally covered with thick and clear soup, then the bones in the eel are removed and the cattail grass is removed, and the soup is stewed crispy. When serving in this way, the finished fish segment is still maintained, but it melts in the mouth and is delicious and fat.

Spring rolls Spring rolls are a special food on the dinner table of Ningbo people. At the sumptuous banquet, a pot of golden crispy spring rolls is served, which is thin and crisp, soft and fragrant, and has a unique flavor. It can be used as a special snack at dinner, adding a year's rich flavor, and it is also a good sign to celebrate the New Year and the Spring Festival.

Ning-style eel paste Ning-style eel paste is a traditional dish in Ningbo, and it is also the specialty of many Ningbo people. It also occupies an important position on such an important occasion as New Year's Eve. The production process of Ning-style eel paste is simple, but the selection of materials is quite particular. Eat it while it is hot, tender, smooth, fragrant and delicious. If you scoop a spoonful of bibimbap, the juice is wrapped in rice, and the grain is abundant and oily, it is also a good meal.

Red mud crab, whether it is the dining table on weekdays or all kinds of banquets, red mud crab never misses the dining table of Ningbo people, and New Year's Eve is an important occasion for red mud crab to appear. "Red Plaster Crab" is an all-male Portunus longclaw crab that will soon overwinter in autumn, and it is marinated with brine. When you open the crab cover when eating, you can see a thick layer of orange-red sauce attached to the fat crab on the top shell, cut it into strips along the crab claws and put it on a plate. Ningbo people call it the "rice stuffing hammer".

Sixi Baked Bran is a must for Sixi Baked Bran New Year's Eve. The raw bran in Ningbo is very distinctive. It is made of wheat bran. Infiltrate brine, then soak it in water and rub it. It gets bigger and bigger, like a sponge. After it is "baked", it is full of soup and has a particularly strong taste. Cai Lan is a big eater and knows the taste very well. He said, "The real Ningbo people bake bran by hand, so it will taste when baked." Some people say that Ningbo bran plays the role of meat in vegetarian diet. That's true.

Rock sugar soft-shelled turtle "Rock sugar soft-shelled turtle" is a must-eat dish in the old year and the New Year. Its nickname is "round dish", which means round and round. Ningbo chooses a small turtle weighing one kilo, taking its tender, so-called "golden rooster, horseshoe turtle". Rock sugar soft-shelled turtle, chestnut and ginkgo alternate. Pick it up and taste it. It will feel soft, moist, sweet, sour and salty. Miannuo only has a turtle skirt in her mouth, which is slightly tender and tough to chew. The old saying in Ningbo that "yellow croaker eats lips, turtle eats skirts" must have originated from this.

Chinese New Year has yellow croaker with cabbage soup, a kind of "yellow croaker with cabbage soup", which is eaten by everyone. Xuecai, potherb mustard and large yellow croaker are all famous products in Ningbo, so they are naturally more delicious when mixed together. Soup made of salted fish is fresh enough. In addition, once the large yellow croaker is cooked, the freshness of salted fish and yellow croaker is interactive. Salted fish has fresh fish, fish has the smell of vegetables, mixed meat and vegetables, and thick soup. How can we not make people greedy?

Ningbo Tangyuan Ningbo Tangtuan is very famous in China, because it is very authentic. Its whole secret lies in: selecting the first-class glutinous rice flour, adding fried and ground black sesame seeds, peeled high-quality suet and high-quality soft candy, kneading them into stuffing hearts, and making them one by one by hand. In the past, when cooking jiaozi, two large iron pots were used. Jiaozi boiled it in a boiling water pot, then fished it out and floated it in a clear water pot, so as to ensure that the skin is not broken or rotten and beautiful. Then add osmanthus, which is beautiful and sweet. With a gentle bite, the lard stuffing slowly flows out, and the oil is sweet from the tip of the tongue to the heart.