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There has always been a dish on the dining table of Nanjing people: jambalaya. The old people in Nanjing called this dish "New Year's dish" and "Ten dishes", which is said to be a dish handed down from the Six Dynasties. Jambalaya is not only delicious, but also every dish has its own meaning.
Braised silver carp
A big silver carp is one of the indispensable dishes of the old Nanjing people. After the silver carp is cooked, put it on a long board and put it on the table grandly. But this dish is just a decoration and must not be eaten, because it represents "more than a year." You can't eat it until after the Lantern Festival.
Braised Hairtail in Brown Sauce
It means "multi-generation", because the fish is homophonic, and the rest symbolize that in the new year, life will be well-fed and there will be more than one year.
smoked fish
Cold fish is smoked fish, delicious and crisp. Old people in Nanjing also call smoked fish "fried fish", which not only means "more than one year", but also means "outbreak". Of course, you should eat a few more pieces when you eat.
Braised pork balls
Also known as the four happy parties. This is a dish that China often eats on festivals. Sixi Ball consists of four balls, which are golden in color, fragrant and vivid in shape, implying happiness, longevity and a happy life in order to get its auspicious meaning. There is no limit to the number of lions on the table!
Egg jiaozi
Nanjing people's love for egg dumplings is well known to all ages, so there must be an egg dumpling on this New Year's Eve table, which means "making a fortune".
Beat the eggs with chopsticks, then drop a few drops of sunflower oil, then pour the eggs into an iron spoon and bake them on the fire of a gas stove. A thin egg dumpling skin is ready. Pick some meat stuffing and put it in the middle of the dumpling skin. When the two sides are closed, Huang Chengcheng egg jiaozi is ready. It tastes good when cooked with seasoning.
Yuanbaodan
In addition, when the old Nanjing people celebrate the New Year, they will also prepare gold ingot eggs. Yuanbao eggs are actually tea eggs, meaning good luck in the coming year, one for each person and one for future generations. Eating tea eggs now is a symbol of local tyrants, haha.
Fried spring rolls
Spring rolls are made of leeks and shredded chicken stuffing, dried noodles and stuffing, fried and fried. Because the fried spring rolls are golden in color, like gold bars, people put a plate of spring rolls on the festive table, which also has the auspicious meaning of "200 gold". Crispy and fragrant.
fried dumpling
Jiaozi cooks one by one, and the mellow voice makes the annual flavor stronger and stronger. Dry stew or soup, fried dumplings are delicious.
Vegetable tofu
People in Nanjing eat a plate of vegetables and tofu soup on New Year's Eve. The traditional saying is to keep safe and seek good luck. In fact, during the Spring Festival, people always eat big fish and big meat, and they are tired of their appetite. Suddenly, a green bean curd soup, clear and refreshing, suddenly felt fresh.
Sausage with fragrant belly
Sweet belly with bacon sausage is also a good cold dish. Du Xiang is a famous specialty of Nanjing, commonly known as "Little Belly" in old Nanjing. Its meat is compact, red and white, delicious and slightly sweet. Using this as a cold dish can better represent the characteristics of Nanjing.
Braised pork hand
Pork hands can be braised in brown sauce with vegetables and peanuts. You can eat in a variety of ways, because pig hands mean making a fortune, and everything will be smooth and easy to do.
Bazhen eight treasure rice
Babao rice is full and sweet. It is most suitable for the whole family to enjoy, symbolizing round and round, so it has the most flavor of the year. Eight treasures are served on the table, gathered in a balanced way, and "round and round" is unique, which is the most essential taste of traditional New Year's Eve.
Stir-fry Artemisia selengensis to dryness.
People in Nanjing like to eat wild vegetables, and Artemisia selengensis is one of them. Foreign friends may not have eaten it. The fried Artemisia selengensis has obvious fragrance. People who are not used to it may feel the taste of medicine. If they get used to it, they will become addicted and chew it all the time! Artemisia selengensis should be accompanied by stinky fried, one
Boiled salted duck
Preserved eggs are traditional egg products of Han nationality in China, which must be ordered on holidays. I feel that I will only eat it during the Chinese New Year.
100 egg
Sixi baked bran is a home-cooked dish of Nanjing people, and it is also one of the classic cold dishes in the New Year's Eve dinner. The so-called "four happiness" means that in addition to baking bran as the main material, mushrooms, Flammulina velutipes, fungus and peanuts must also be added. This dish fully satisfies the sweet nature of Nanjing people, so it is very popular.
Sixi roasted bran
"As the saying goes: Nanjing radish. Foreign radish is one of Nanjing people's favorite vegetables, but whenever it is sold in the vegetable market, the family will buy it and eat it cold.
Cold radish with foreign flowers
A "pot" that old Nanjing must eat must belong to the old Nanjing assorted casserole. As a traditional famous dish in Nanjing, the outstanding feature of this dish is the preciousness of ingredients. As we all know, jambalaya is a street snack. When the famous Zhang Daqian cooked the assorted rice, he added more than a dozen excellent materials such as sea cucumber, abalone and fresh shrimp, thus creating the assorted casserole.
Assorted casserole
It is inevitable that there will be big fish and big meat on the New Year's Eve, so we should also pay attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables. It is simple to make, and making a good dining table is the icing on the cake.
Stir-fried lily with celery and ginkgo
On the morning of New Year's Day, every household in Nanjing will eat glutinous rice balls or rice cakes, which means happy every year, round and round, tall and big. Generally, glutinous rice flour is used to rub jiaozi or rice cakes. Tangyuan contains sugar, jujube paste, sesame seeds and so on.
tangyuan
On the first day, when guests go home to pay New Year's greetings, they should bring a bowl of sugar water to them, and put a "happy ball" in it to express their sweetness and joy.
Huanxituan dessert store
Old Nanjing people used to drink Tu Su wine on the first morning. This custom began in the Southern Dynasties. For thousands of years, Nanjing people have been drinking it, and formed a set of rules: when the sun rises, it faces the east, "from the least to the longest." Young people drink first, old people drink later, and move forward in the morning sun.
Tu Su wine
Also called soup. On New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together to eat Fushou soup. Shoutang is made of "red dates, Fujian lotus seeds, water chestnuts and natural wild water chestnuts", which means "God bless".
go home for Spring Festival
Every year, my mother cooks this pot of fresh soup with pure old hens. It smells so good that people can't resist its temptation! Stewed for a long time, the secret of delicious is to put fried rice. It's delicious. Drinking a big bowl at a time is the favorite of the elderly.
Well, Bian Xiao tells everyone what Nanjing people will eat at the New Year's Eve. If you want to come to Nanjing for the New Year, you can also try the food here!