What are the three dishes that must be eaten on New Year's Eve?

Chinese New Year is inseparable from food. Every place has its own special New Year's dishes. Let me talk about the three dishes that we must eat in the local New Year.

First, crude oil meat.

Raw pork is a famous dish with regional characteristics. Generally, pork belly is cooked in a pot, sliced, mixed with soaked shredded day lily and kohlrabi, seasoned with onion, ginger and star anise, and then the sliced meat is picked out, evenly placed at the bottom of the bowl with the skin down, covered with auxiliary materials and steamed in the pot.

Steamed crude oil meat, when the bowl is buckled on the plate, becomes the upward skin and the bottom accessories, which are both beautiful and delicious.

In particular, steaming this kind of meat in rural pots has the characteristics of great firepower and lasting firepower. In addition, the wood smell of firewood can smell the meat before it is released. Because this kind of meat is cooked without oil, it is decorated with oil steamed from pork itself, so it is called raw meat. It tastes oily but not greasy, salty and sweet, soft and delicious. Therefore, raw meat can become one of the irreplaceable new year dishes.

However, when I was a child, there was no crude oil and meat in the countryside for the New Year. At that time, every household made big fat slices similar to braised pork and took a bite of oil.

At that time, rural materials were extremely scarce, and meat must be eaten during the Spring Festival. After all, guests must be entertained. Therefore, at that time, when visiting relatives during the Spring Festival, parents should especially instruct their children to eat whatever they want at relatives' homes, that is, not to sandwich meat. Even if the host warmly greets you to eat meat, as long as he doesn't help you clip it, you must never put your chopsticks into a bowl full of meat.

Therefore, cooking a bowl of meat during the Chinese New Year is indispensable until all the guests are served during the Chinese New Year.

Second, sugar rice

Sugar rice is steamed with glutinous rice mixed with white sugar. First, soak the glutinous rice for 12 hour in advance, put it in a pot until it becomes soft, remove the water, mix in the white sugar, and add the apple slices, orange petals, candied dates, red beans and peas. Put the glutinous rice into the bottom of the bowl, then put it into the bowl, then steam it in the pot. When eating, take a plate, turn the sugar rice over the plate and take off the bowl. Sugar rice is simple and low cost. At the same time, it also means that life is sweet. It is one of the main dishes that people can't live without, whether in the countryside or during the Spring Festival.

Third, croquettes.

During the Spring Festival in rural areas, every household should fry meatballs, which are delicious, inexpensive and traditional, symbolizing reunion.

Therefore, meatballs are also an indispensable leading dish for local rural people to celebrate the New Year or for weddings. The difference is that if there is a funeral, the balls on the big table will be fried red balls and replaced with white soup balls.

Traditional fried meatballs are made of vermicelli, onion and ginger mixed with seasoning, mixed with flour into a thick paste and fried in an oil pan. Golden yellow is in line with the festive atmosphere during the Chinese New Year. Not only can you eat it directly, but when guests come, put a bowl in the pot and steam it. It will be soft and delicious when served, and you will be full when eating.