The annual celebration awaiting the transition to the new year is extra special because of the many exciting things to expect: flashy fireworks, fancy cocktails, and lofty new year’s resolutions. However, maybe the most important thing to look forward to in any new year’s eve celebration is the food. If you are dining at restaurants, in a hotel room, a bar, or at your condo, it is imperative to choose good food for a good future.
In most traditions and cultures, new year’s eve meals represent good luck and good fortune for the next year. Was the current year awful for you? Was the year great? Or was it more or less neutral? However this year went for you, the dinner of this new year’s eve celebration is the perfect chance to make next year more auspicious for you. Moreover, these are easy to make; perfect for condo living celebrations.
Here are the Top 5 Recipes to Serve and Feast on for a lucky new year.
Mixed Green and Herb Toss Salad
For trivia, the color green symbolizes luck. According to Chinese astrology, green symbolizes money. In the United States, dollar bills are green. In Ireland, the four-leaf clover, the ultimate symbol of luck, is the color green.
Hence, including some greens in your menu should bestow upon you some of the luck associated with the symbols above. Moreover, a side benefit of greens is promoting eating healthily.
One such dish is a Mixed Green and Herb Toss Salad.
This salad contains a variety of spring greens, chopped herbs (like tarragon, dill, mint), and is tossed with a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, mustard, and honey. If you like, you can add in some eggs and flowers for garnish and display. It is so easy, it can be prepared in as quick as 10 minutes.
This salad promises to be tasty, healthy, and lucky.
View the full recipe here.
Asian Steak Noodle Bowl
It is commonly known in Asian households that eating noodles extends one’s lifespan. That is why a noodle dish is at every Asian birthday. Now, many Asians are eating noodles in New Year’s for the same reason. But according to them, the noodle must not break from the bowl to your mouth.
That being said, an Asian Steak Noodle Bowl is perfect for life-lengthening new year’s suppers.
This fantastic dish contains buckwheat Soba noodles, Sirloin steak, with some edamame, mint, and cilantro leaves. But what really enhances the flavor is the rice vinegar, sesame oil, chili paste tossed with the whole dish. You can even add carrots if you prefer.
Unfortunately, what makes this dish counterintuitive is that it is so delicious that you will feel like you are in heaven; contrary to extended life on Earth.
Banter aside, this dish is ideal for an Asian twist to your Asian-style new year’s menu.
View the full recipe here.
Roast Pork and Sweet Potatoes with Spicy Cabbage
Of course, the star of the dish is the Roast Pork. The complimentary ingredient to the Roast Pork is the Sweet Potato. However, it is the Spicy Cabbage that not only adds a little bit of kick to this dish, it also adds in the luck factor of this dish.
Going back to the topic of the color green and luck, Ireland and the United States consider Cabbage as lucky due to its green hue. While this dish uses red cabbage, it should work the same way, right?
If you opt to use this recipe, it is best to work early. Since it is important to serve soft pork and potatoes, you may need the bulk of the prep time making the two ingredients soft.
After they are both properly roasted, add in the cabbage for a visually appealing and appetizing dish.
View the full recipe here.
Lechon
A no-brainer here. The most common dish in any extravagant Filipino celebration is Lechon. Since Lechon is usually Pork, here is some trivia about Pork.
Once upon a time, Pork was reserved for the elite. Here in the Philippines, Lechon has wealthy and elite associations attached to it. Therefore, it is in Filipino culture to reserve this for huge parties and events.
And where better to have Lechon than in Cebu City? Hands-down, the best Lechon in the Philippines comes from Cebu because of its extra crunchy red skin and mouth-watering meat. As a matter of fact, an ordinary visit to Cebu City would have Lechon.
There is no recipe linked here. If you are in Suarez Residences, a Vista Residence condo in Cebu, order Lechon from the many choices at your disposal. Once it arrives, you are ready to feast.
Sadly, if you order too much, be ready to use the leftovers for Lechon Paksiw to be eaten a couple of days after New Year’s.
Salmon BLT Sandwich.
If you are looking for something light yet delicious, easy but versatile, try this Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich with Salmon.
This BLT sandwich comes with delicious Salmon and a tangy yogurt dressing which makes this very light on the stomach, but healthy for the heart and good for the soul.
But you may wonder what makes this lucky. After all, this is a list of lucky recipes for new year’s.
Salmon, the star of the dish, is what makes this sandwich lucky because it is fish. Normally, anyone would just eat an ordinary BLT sandwich. But, with fish in it— Salmon being the most befitting—it just got lucky. Here is why.
In certain countries, fish symbolizes luck in the new year because they only swim in one direction, forward. For other countries, fish symbolizes abundance because they swim in schools. Either way, whatever you choose to believe in, eating fish coming into the new year should bring in good fortune.
View the full recipe here.
New Year’s in the Philippines
To reiterate, the aforementioned dishes are not only lucky and delicious, but they are also easy to prepare, making these new year’s recipes apt for any setting and situation.
So if you are living or want to live in Vista Residences, a condo in the Philippines, prepare these dishes from the comforts of your condo, and 2022 promises to be prosperous for you and your loved ones.
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