The auspicious names of dishes in the Year of the Tiger are as follows:
1. "Spicy Chicken"
It means that life is prosperous. Chop the chicken into small pieces, add starch, salt, pepper, and light soy sauce to marinate. Add oil to the pan and fry the chicken pieces until golden and take them out. Leave the oil in the pan and fry the onions, ginger, and garlic. Add the chicken pieces and stir-fry evenly.
2. "Spring Cake"
Contains the beautiful taste of the New Year. Mix the flour with salt, stir it into a dough with warm water, grease the surface and wait for 1 hour, then roll the flour into long strips and divide it into several portions, then roll it out thinly, steam it with water for 10 minutes and then wrap it with your favorite ingredients.
3. "Baicai Rolled Meat"
It means attracting wealth and blessing. The ingredients need to be cabbage, pork, and eggs. Chop the three fat and seven lean pork into minced meat, add salt, light soy sauce, oil, minced onion and garlic, allspice powder, starch, then beat in an egg and stir. Boil the cabbage until soft, remove from the cold water, roll the minced meat into balls, place them at the base of the cabbage leaves, slowly roll them up and place them on a plate. Boil the water and steam for 15 minutes. In another pot, add oil, light soy sauce, oil, and water starch to make a sauce and pour it on the cabbage rolls.
4. "Wealth and Treasures"
It means a steady flow of wealth. The ingredients need to be pork, quail eggs, and carrots. Chop the pork and carrots, add salt, light soy sauce, oil, sugar, and starch, then beat in an egg and stir. Shape the minced meat into balls and put them into a bowl, make a pit with your thumb, beat an egg in, boil the water and steam for 15 minutes. In another pot, add light soy sauce, oil, sugar, and water starch to make a sauce and pour it on the vegetables.
5. "Pearl Glutinous Rice Balls"
It means reunion, and the ingredients should be glutinous rice, pork, and carrots. Soak the glutinous rice for 2 hours, add minced meat, onion, garlic, salt, light soy sauce, oil, sugar, starch, eggs, and an appropriate amount of glutinous rice and stir. Arrange carrot slices on the bottom of the plate, roll the minced meat into balls, wrap them in glutinous rice, place them on the plate, boil water and steam for 25 minutes. After steaming, sprinkle with chopped green onion and wolfberry.