The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo

The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo

Overview

This is a traditional New Year dish in our hometown. This dish is on almost every family’s dining table every Chinese New Year. The authentic way is to put it into a charcoal-burning copper hot pot. After the sauerkraut and kelp in the pot are cooked, the family sits around and cooks and eats. It has a very hot feeling. Now that almost every family has moved into a building, no one can bear to let the white walls be blackened by soot, so they have to use a clay pot or an electric hot pot instead of a copper pot. The preparation of this dish takes almost a day. You need to cook pork belly, chicken soup, steam stew, steamed meatballs... It may seem like an inconspicuous dish, with no fancy ingredients and no bright and eye-catching color, but it is the long-standing Chinese New Year flavor in my hometown and the warmest taste of home in the hearts of people in my hometown.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. After cleaning the chicken, add onion, ginger, pepper and star anise and cook a pot of chicken soup for later use.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 1

  2. Put green onion, ginger, pepper and star anise in the pot, put a piece of pork belly into the pot and cook until it can be easily penetrated with chopsticks.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 2

  3. Take out the cooked pork belly and let cool and set aside.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 3

  4. Chop another piece of meat into mincemeat.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 4

  5. Add light soy sauce, salt, minced green onions, five-spice powder and appropriate amount of water and stir well.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 5

  6. Form the meat filling into balls and steam them in a pot.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 6

  7. Shred the sauerkraut.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 7

  8. Shred the kelp.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 8

  9. Slice the stew. (The recipe for braised seeds is in my recipe)

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 9

  10. Pork belly slices

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 10

  11. When cooking chicken soup, cut the chicken into strips.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 11

  12. Put the sauerkraut in the bottom of the pot first.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 12

  13. Place another layer of kelp silk.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 13

  14. Add an appropriate amount of sea rice (you can also add small crabs or oysters), pour in an appropriate amount of chicken broth, add salt and cook for about half an hour (if you use a copper hot pot, you can put all the ingredients together and cook. The longer the sauerkraut cooks, the more flavorful it will be).

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 14

  15. After the sauerkraut is cooked, add the stewed dumplings, meatballs, shrimp, chicken, octopus and pork belly. (You can also put other suitable meats and seafood. My casserole is too small and I really can’t put more)

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 15

  16. Add some chicken stock and continue cooking until the pork belly is transparent and the oil in the meat dissolves into the soup, then it is ready to serve.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 16

  17. The last picture is of the copper hot pot. This full pot is the most traditional way.

    The traditional New Year dish in my hometown - Hun Guo step 17