Tet to Spring is the time when family members gather together to chat, enjoy delicious food. However, what to eat on New Year’s Day is new, attractive but not boring is always a constant question during the Lunar New Year, especially a headache for women, who are assigned the responsibility of socializing. kitchen in the family.
“Bound of food” delicious dishes on Tet holiday
Lunar New Year is the time when family members return to reunite and reunite after a year of studying and working hard.
There is nothing warmer and happier than when the whole family gathers around the tray of rice on Tet holiday, giving each other wishes and love at the transition between the old year and the new year. Therefore, at this time, the preparation of family meals and Tet dishes is also a priority for the “chefs”.
The tray of rice on Tet holiday not only represents warmth and happiness, but also conveys the wish to have a full and prosperous new year. Therefore, many families believe that Tet dishes need to be prepared heartily, fully and diversely, especially traditional dishes.
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However, because life is getting better and better than before, we can also eat well every day, not like before when Tet or other big days can eat well, so the taste has also been “tasted”. experience” a lot of exotic foods. Therefore, many families still follow the habit of making traditional rice trays with banh chung, spring rolls, stir-fried spring rolls, spring rolls, etc. to offer to the ancestors.
Ms. Nhu Mai (Long Bien-Hanoi) shared: “Every year, my family has a big pot of braised meat and eggs, in some years, the big pot of braised fish can’t be finished for a dozen days. In addition, there are also spring rolls, spring rolls, etc. cold meat, sausages… full fridge, eat from 30 Tet until Tet. Very bored but still don’t know how to change…”
Nguyen Thanh Nga, 19 years old, Cau Giay-Hanoi, is “bored of Tet” in another way: “From December 30 to the end of the 2nd day of the Lunar New Year, I usually make 2 trays of rice to offer to the elderly. Because the family still has a grandfather, the rice tray must be full of traditional dishes. There were five of my mother’s changes to spring rolls with meat rolls, but he did not agree. Therefore, usually 3 days of Tet the dishes are almost the same. Meanwhile, the house is anchored, so the dishes are almost intact.”
Anti-boring foods and drinks
When you are too bored with the “face-filled” banquet of banh chung, banh gio, meat…, nutrition experts recommend changing the taste with light, strange dishes to help the stomach digest. better.
Salads and mannequins have a sour taste that helps you digest well and is also one of the effective anti-boring foods. Pickled onions, pickled cucumbers, sweet and sour pickled toads, squeezed beef salad, shrimp and meat salad… with the fresh and sweet taste of ingredients, the sweet and spicy taste will stimulate your taste buds in dinner parties. sumptuous Tet holiday. The sour dishes, salad when used with banh chung, banh tet … are also very strange to eat.
During the New Year’s meal, there should be more plates boiled vegetables You will feel more appetizing next to greasy, starchy foods. (Photo: Vietnam+)In addition, it is indispensable for boiled vegetables such as sweet cabbage, water spinach, cabbage, broccoli, spinach … These vegetables will help you feel more delicious besides many Tet dishes. grease, starch.
Besides, the special “effective” anti-boring dishes on Tet holiday are sour soup (cooking fish, bones…), field crab soup (eating with vermicelli, rice, raw vegetables), tofu soup… easy to eat, while helping the body regain balance.
In addition, there are drinks that help relatives quickly get rid of anorexia such as tomato juice, lemon juice, carrot juice, etc. juice cucumbers, cucumbers, papaya juice… because they are very good for the digestive system, helping to keep the spirit happy and refreshed in the first days of the new year.
Another dish that is easy to make or “right at the beginning of the alley” will immediately have a yogurt dish that both fights boredom and strengthens the immune system, preventing many diseases during Tet.
Doctors also give advice that on Tet holiday, you often eat a lot, don’t have a meal, so you only eat just enough to feel a bit hungry.
In addition, people also need to note the right combination of foods. Due to the large amount of food and dishes during Tet, there will be dishes that do not match, even incompatible with each other. If combined carelessly, you may experience diarrhea.
Salad is also one of the very easy dishes to make. (Photo: Vietnam+)Therefore, nutritionists recommend that people can combine according to the recipe: Fat goes with sour (banh chung served with pickled onions, fatty meat served with kelp), protein with spicy (chicken dipped with salt). pepper), cool with warm (meat soup cooked with a little ginger) you will feel all bored. It should also be noted that foods and drinks that are cold, cold or cold will also increase intestinal motility and increase digestive secretions, so they should not go together.
Besides, people also need to eat in harmony; Eat enough food groups, don’t just eat meat and fish, eat vegetables in the meal…
Only in this way can we fully enjoy meals with family and loved ones warm and happy in the early days of the New Year, but still ensure health and feel the taste of Tet. in each delicious dish has its own unique characteristics of Vietnamese culinary culture.
Thuy Ha (Vietnam+)