Traditional Chinese New Year Recipes? Care to share your favorite one's?

Chinese New Year Whole Fish With Sweet and Sour Vegetables

This recipe comes from a Chinese friend. Simple and delicious especially when she made it!

4 servings 25 min 10 min prep



35 1/3 ounces fish, cleaned and scaled

salt

vegetable oil

1 tablespoons shredded fresh ginger

1 red chili, deseeded and finely chopped

3 spring onions, sliced

1 carrot, thinly sliced

1 red capsicum, thinly sliced

3 tablespoons light soy sauce

3 tablespoons oyster sauce

2 tablespoons sugar

3 tablespoons vinegar

1 tablespoons sesame oil

2 teaspoons cornflour



Score the fish flesh, cutting 3-4 diagonal slits through to the bone on both sides.

Season with salt rubbing the salt into the cuts.

Cook under a preheated grill 4 minutes each side. Alternatively bbq it.

Meanwhile heat a wok, add a little oil, add ginger, chilli and vegetables tossing well over high heat for 2-3 minutes.

Add soy and oyster sauces, sugar, vinegar and sesame oil and bring to the boil.

In a bowl mix cornflour to a smooth paste with some cold water, add to the pan and simmer until sauce thickens.

Place fish on serving platter and spoon sauce and vegetables over the top.



Chinese New Year Cookies

60 or more 15 min 5 min prep

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12 ounces semisweet chocolate

12 ounces caramel candies

2 cups chow mein noodles

2 cups salted peanuts



Unwrap caramels.

Combine chocolate and caramels in top of double boiler.

Heat over med until completely melted.

Add noodles and nuts.

Stir well.

Drop by teaspoon onto wax paper.

Chill.



Chinese New Year Rice

6 servings 20 min 20 min prep



3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 lb cooked chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces

3 1/2 cups cooked rice, chilled

3 green onions, sliced

1 stalk celery, diagonally sliced

1 small carrot, shredded

1-2 tablespoon soy sauce

1/8 teaspoon black pepper



Heat oil in a large skillet or wok over medium high heat.

Add chicken.

Cook and stir until lightly browned.

Add remaining ingredients.

Cook and stir about 10 minutes.

Serve.



Chinese New Year Wonton Soup

6 servings 35 min 20 min prep



1/2 lb mushrooms

1/4 lb sliced ham

1 tablespoon oil

1/4 lb small shrimp

1/2 cup minced green onions

2 tablespoons soy sauce

12 wonton skins

2 green onions, diagonally cut in 1 inch pieces

4 cups chicken broth

1/2 lb fresh spinach, trimmed,washed,drained,cut in thin strips



Mince 3/4 cup of mushrooms.

Slice the rest.

Saute' ham in oil, drain on paper towel.

Set aside 6 shrimp and finely chop the rest.

Add minced mushrooms, onions, and soy sauce to the chopped shrimp.

Mix to a paste consistency.

Place mixture in the middle of the wonton skin.

Brush water on 2 borders of the skin, covering 1/4" from the edge.

Bring one end over to form a triangle.

Seal edges.

Pull the other 2 ends together to meet and overlap under filling.

Moisten 1 end, pinch firmly.

Bring chicken broth to a boil.

Add wontons, sliced mushrooms, green onions.

Simmer 10 minutes.

Add reserved 6 shrimp and spinach.

Cook until spinach wilts.

Top with ham strips.Traditional Chinese New Year Recipes? Care to share your favorite one's?
We celebrated Chinese New Year today and I made Nian Gao, the traditional new year cake. This recipe is for *baked* Nian Gao, supposedly a little more cake-like than the very authentic steamed version. We're all white Americans unaccustomed to eating sweet beans, but it was a hit and all my friends loved it! I even had a request to make it again. :)



The flour and beans were easily obtained from the local Asian market. (I'll also let you know that my batter was more liquidy than the recipe implied. I poured it rather than spread it, and the beans sunk to the bottom. I cooked it a little longer than suggested. But it turned out great!)



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"Year of the pig!"Traditional Chinese New Year Recipes? Care to share your favorite one's?
On New Year's Eve it is customary to serve a fish at the end of the evening meal, symbolizing a wish for abundance in the coming year. For added symbolism, the fish is served whole, with head and tail attached, symbolizing a good beginning and ending for the coming year.



The sweet, steamed cakes are popular during the Chinese New Year season. Cakes such as Sticky Rice Cake have symbolic significance on many levels. Their sweetness symbolizes a rich, sweet life, while the layers symbolize rising abundance for the coming year. Finally, the round shape signifies family reunion.



A whole chicken during the Chinese New Year season symbolizes family togetherness.

Noodles represent a long life; an old superstition says that it's bad luck to cut them.



Clams and Spring Rolls symbolize wealth; clams because of their resemblance to bouillon, and Spring Rolls because their shape is similar to gold.



My favorite is Spring Rolls



300 g ground meat

1 small leek

2 cloves garlic

2 carrots

2 tablespoons oil

1 jar bean sprouts

2 tablespoons chinese soy

8 rice papers, ca 15 x 15 cm

2 tablespoons oil

1 teaspoon sesam oil

2 tablespoons hoisin sauce



Preheat oven to 225 degrees C.



Cut leek into fine slices, grate carrot, chop garlic.

Fry ground meat, leek, garlic and carrot a couple of minutes in oil.

Add bean sprouts (without water)

Put filling on rice paper and make a package

Place them on a baking sheet (use parchment paper).

Mix oil and sesam oil, brush the spring rolls and bake for 10-15 minutes

Serve with hoisin sauce and salad..