Chinese New year also known as Lunar New Year or Chun Jie (春节), is the biggest festival for the Chinese and also a festive time for many all over the world. This festival features amazing fireworks, Ang Bao(红包), new attires, and most important is tons of good food that symbolized good fortune.
As we say goodbye to the year of the Tiger and greet the upcoming year of rabbit, we have prepared these lunar new year recipes to help you to plan what to cook for your family and friends with ease and lots of great foods.
You may also download OKI Lunar New Year Recipe eBook (English Version / 中文版): DOWNLOAD HERE
1. Crispy Golden Yam Ring 金芋满堂喜迎春
The mashed yam is shaped into a ring and then deep fried with OKI Peanut Aroma Premium Cooking Oil and filled with stir-fry chicken and vegetables or any filling of your choice and served on a bed of crispy fried rice vermicelli. This is a popular lunar new year dish you can make at home.
2. Lotus Leaf Rice 阖家团圆荷叶饭
Lotus Leaf Rice, is a fragrant savory dish that’s full of luck! A combination of glutinous rice, chinese sausage, mushrooms, and other goodies wrapped in lotus leaf. This is an auspicious dish that usually eaten at reunion dinner. Irresistibly wonderful aromas of umami flavors from the sweet scent of the lotus leaves. Impress your loved ones with this lotus leaf rice!! Using OKI Peanut Aroma Premium Cooking Oil for extra luck!!
3. Fortune Pen Cai 好运盆菜
Regarded as an auspicious dish, Pen Cai is a symbol of prosperity and harmony. This fortune Pen Cai is a dish to behold!!
Pen Cai symbolizes wealth and abundance. It’s one pot goodness loaded with multi-layer ingredients, such as abalone, prawns, sea cucumber, fish maw, scallops and many more. There are no hard rules on what exactly to use in Pen Cai, every family has their own way of making it.
Many of you might get put off by the method of making Pen Cai because it seems difficult. Watch the video so you can prepare this Fortune Pen Cai at home with OKI Blended Cooking Oil without being overwhelmed.
Recipe by Share Food Singapore
4. Steamed Garlic Prawns 花开富贵鲜虾冬粉蒸
Prawns are a must-have dish during reunion dinners. Prawns are called har (哈) in Cantonese and they symbolized laughter and happiness.
Learn how to easily prepare steamed garlic prawns to make your Chinese New Year full of laughs!!
Don’t forget to stock up OKI Premium Sunflower Oil before CNY!!
5. Fried Nian Gao 步步高升炸年糕
Nian Gao symbolizes an increase in prosperity?
These crispy Nian Gao are sandwiched with yam, sweet potato, and of course, Nian Gao, then coated with a light and airy OKI Tempura Batter Mix and fried using OKI Peanut Aroma Premium Cooking Oil to perfection.
This is a great way to serve as a snack for your family and also a great way to use the leftover Nian Gao after the Chinese New Year.
6. Fried Ngoh Hiang 五福临门五香卷
Fried Ngoh Hiang is a traditional Hokkien dish where the five-spice pork rolls are wrapped with beancurd skin then steamed and deep fried.
This simple fried Ngoh Hiang recipe is great as an entrée or appetizer. You can make it with your kids!!
Recipe by Lim Jen Jen
