Nutritionist’s New Year’s Eve dinner is simple, delicious and healthy. It’s too late to learn.

Nutritionist’s New Year’s Eve dinner is simple, delicious and healthy.
It’s too late to learn.

The original Fan Zhihong
makes a table of New Year's Eve dinner, which is a troublesome task for every family
.
To reconcile the crowd, to be auspicious and to celebrate, and to add health claims, that is really a major challenge
.

However, this is not an impossible task, because many delicious foods are healthy in themselves! During the Spring Festival, when the big fish and the meat are greasy, family meals must be refreshing, healthy and delicious, and even to please
.

Here is a table of New Year’s Eve dinner that I have recommended.
This year I have made some adjustments and modifications for your reference:
5 cold dishes:
▪ Toon and bean sprouts mixed with chicken shreds
-meaning "good luck", chicken homophonic Ji, bean sprouts Also known as Ruyi
.
Bean sprouts can be soybean sprouts or mung bean sprouts
.

▪ Pumpkin and lily in honey sauce
-meaning "full of gold and jade", pumpkin color is as yellow as gold, and lily is as white as jade
.
It is best to use fresh lilies for better taste
.
But the cooking time of fresh lilies must be shorter, just cook for one minute before starting the pot
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▪ Four-color side dishes: almonds (white), carrot diced, kelp diced mixed with parsley diced
    -meaning "happy hometown", apricot homonym "fortune", parsley homonym "hometownship", with a strong nostalgic taste
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The specific ingredients can be adjusted according to your preferences
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▪ Orange juice lotus root slices
    -meaning "Beauty Day"
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Fresh lotus root slices are slightly blanched in boiling water, soaked in pure orange juice, and seasoned with lemon juice and honey.
It is sweet and sour
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▪ Plum Sauce Short Ribs
    ——It means "magpie on plum".
The red plum sauce is made into plum blossoms and placed on a plate, surrounded by small dark-brown, sweet and sour plum sauce ribs
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    The cold dishes are mainly vegetarian, and some of them contain starchy ingredients.
Avoid eating large amounts of fish and meat on an empty stomach, which is not conducive to digestion
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There are two sweet dishes, which can suit the tastes of women and children, and can also replace desserts after meals
.
Pay attention to the sweetness when making
.

Hot dishes:
▪ Steamed mandarin fish with black bean sauce
    -meaning "more than one year"
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You can replace it with other fish you like, as long as it is a whole steamed fish
.
Add some black bean sauce and ginger shreds, don’t put fat diced pork ) ▪ Stir-fried beef tenderloin shreds with burdock, carrot, red sweet pepper
    -meaning "the beef is added to the beef", the red is the main color, and those who stock stocks will love it
.
Burdock can not be bought or used
.

▪ Stir-fried rice cakes with soft broad beans with pickled vegetables and fried yam with shrimps and asparagus
    -meaning "Rui Xue Feng Nian", you can add minced meat if you like meat
.
In Jiangnan, Chinese New Year eats rice cakes.
Friends from the north can replace the rice cakes with white mountain pills, and replace the tender broad beans with asparagus, and add shrimps.
It is also a very refreshing and beautiful dish
.
▪
    Seaweed and water chestnut meatballs -meaning "reunion and roundness", use boiled kelp or wakame to make a paste, chop water chestnuts, add meat fillings to make meatballs, add a little fat to achieve a softening effect, and The taste is refreshing and not greasy
.
There is no water chestnut in the north, you can buy canned food or replace it with crispy yam
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▪ Stir-fried river crab
    -meaning "House of Harmony", cut the crab, add garlic sprouts and shallots and fry until fragrant, and finally sprinkle with cooked sesame seeds
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Where there is no crab, you can replace it with meat dishes
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▪ Braised bamboo shoots and apples in oil
    -meaning "bamboo gives peace", traditional braised bamboo shoots in oil, or can be replaced with braised bamboo shoots in oil, when they are about to ripen, stir-fry with diced apples, which is slightly sweet
.

▪ Stir-fried tofu with peas, wolfberry and shrimp
    -meaning "good luck", fresh peas are pre-cooked, or quick-frozen products, easy to cook
.
North tofu tofu can also be used tofu skin, silk tofu, bean curd one thousand and so on
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The shrimp can be replaced with diced meat
.

▪ The rare fungus alfalfa tip or shepherd's purse
    —meaning "four seasons of evergreen".
The rare fungus can be sliced ​​in the middle with boletus, white ling mushroom, etc.
, or it can be replaced with other mushrooms
.
Surround it with green vegetables, or replace it with other fresh green leafy vegetables
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▪ soup: sauerkraut Laoya / mushroom chicken soup vegetable shoots
    - meaning "Happy Plumbing ducks", acid or sour radish mustard, orange peel and so on
.
In the north, you can cook chicken soup with round mushrooms, and add a little green choy sum at the end
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    Beverage: Smooth soy milk (20 grams of soybeans, 20 grams of roasted peanuts, 20 grams of oatmeal, add 1000 grams of water, and use a household soymilk machine to make soy milk)
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It can also be replaced with a more refreshing fruit and vegetable puree
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▪ Snack: Three fresh leek dumplings/wontons
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    2 parts of meat, 1 part of peanut and soybean dregs after making soy milk, half of omelet, half of shrimp or soaked scallops, 2 parts of leeks, wrapped into smaller dumplings or wontons
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    The main side dish is gold and silver rice, which is rice cooked with half rice and half millet
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Millet should be soaked 2 hours in advance before cooking with rice
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Comments:
▪ There are half vegetarian dishes in the hot dishes, but not too light
.
Among them, the proportion of saturated fat is low, which is beneficial to friends who need to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
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However, rice cakes are high glycemic index foods, and diabetic patients should avoid eating more
.
Starchy foods such as lily yam are suitable for patients with three highs if sugar is not added, but sugar is not suitable
.

▪ Homemade drinks taste good and are healthy
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The dumpling stuffing is cleverly used with soy milk residue, which not only makes the stuffing softer, but also increases the dietary fiber
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▪ There are nearly 40 kinds of ingredients in the whole New Year’s Eve dinner.
The food is diverse and rich, with a light and vivid taste.
The proportion of plant-based ingredients reaches two-thirds without losing the sense of gourmet food
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    The recommendation of these foods here is not to say that the New Year’s Eve dinner needs to be so troublesome, but to suggest that friends innovate a variety of healthy foods during the Spring Festival, and use a variety of rich ingredients to reflect the luxury and health of the Spring Festival
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    Finally, I wish all my friends a prosperous year of the pig, happy family, good health, and all the best!