New Year’s Recipes (5) Must-Eat Desserts for New Year’s Eve Dinner & Steamed Pumpkin with Red Dates and Lily

Overview

Steamed pumpkin with red dates, lilies and pumpkins heralds a good harvest and a complete harvest. Pumpkin is a vegetable because its bright yellow skin and the large number of seeds inside heralds the joy of having many children and grandchildren. The sweet taste of pumpkin represents sweetness and happiness; pumpkin also means that spring is coming in our Jiangnan. On the day of the beginning of spring, every family will eat pumpkin to welcome the arrival of spring. Speaking of lily, it means a happy marriage and a happy family. Special mention is made of fermented glutinous rice wine, which is a sweet rice wine that is a traditional Chinese specialty.

Tags

• dessert
• chinese banquet
• banquet dishes
• pumpkin head
• red dates
• rock sugar
• starch
• wolfberry
• fresh lily
• wine

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Peel the pumpkin in half.

   

2. 2 Cut into triangles.

   

3. 3 Put it in a bowl, cut the scraps into small pieces and put them in the middle.

   

4. 4 Boil water in a pot, put the pumpkin into the water and steam for about 30 minutes, just poke it gently with chopsticks and it will go in.

   

5. 5 Prepare a basin, cover it with the bowl, invert it, and pour the steamed water into the bowl.

   

6. 6 While steaming the pumpkin, clean the other ingredients. Put an appropriate amount of water in the pot, add the water from the steamed pumpkin, cook rock sugar and red dates for five minutes, add lily fermented rice wine and wolfberry, stir evenly and continue to cook, dissolve the starch with water and pour in, stir over medium-low heat until thickened.

   

7. 7 Pour the honey juice into the basin.

   

8. 8 It looks like you really want to eat it.

   

9. 9 It’s served