Recipes for course: lunar new year

Melt-in-your-mouth Bunny Shaped Pineapple Tarts 兔年凤梨酥 (Rabbit Shaped Kue Nastar)

Melt-in-your-mouth Bunny Shaped Pineapple Tarts 兔年凤梨酥 (Rabbit Shaped Kue Nastar)

Bunny Pineapple Tarts are all the rage during lunar year of the rabbit. Here's how you can easily make it, without using a mould. Make the pineapple from scratch and choose to use healthier sweeteners. This pineapple tarts are so melt-in-the-mouth, you can't stop at one.

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Abalone Yusheng For Chinese New Year Lou Hei 富贵花开 鱼生鲍鱼

Abalone Yusheng For Chinese New Year Lou Hei 富贵花开 鱼生鲍鱼

Let's lau yusheng together! Here's a guide on what to prepare for Lou Hei Yusheng 捞起鱼生 for the Chinese Lunar New Year and the auspicious phrases to recite.

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Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)

Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)

A seemingly complex yet deceptively easy dish to make. Pen Cai will be the quintessential Chinese New Year dish you can easily prepare and impress your loved families and friends during the auspicious reunion dinner.

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Lou Hei Yu Sheng (Vegetarian) 捞鱼生

Lou Hei Yu Sheng (Vegetarian) 捞鱼生

The Yu Sheng dish typically comprise of a colourful palette of yam, carrot and radish, with the raw fish being the centrepiece, drizzled with plum sauce and some spices, and lastly sprinkled with some savoury crackers. Here's a guide on what to prepare for Lou Hei Yu Sheng 捞起鱼生 for the Chinese Lunar New Year and the auspicious phrases to recite. This is a vegetarian recipe but you can always add abalone slices [https://www.beautifulvoyager.com/abalone-yusheng-lou-hei-for-chinese-new-year/].

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Pineapple Tarts

Pineapple Tarts

Melt-in-your-mouth pineapple tarts are to-die for. Known as kuih tart, kue nastar, or kueh tae, pineapple tarts are a much-loved classic pastry all time of the year. This recipe is adapted from a recipe on Straits Times. I reduced the amount of sugar and substituted it with Stevia sweetener, using the same dough recipe for both closed and open-faced pineapple tarts and got the thumbs up from my family.

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Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)

Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)

A seemingly complex yet deceptively easy dish to make. Pen Cai will be the quintessential Chinese New Year dish you can easily prepare and impress your loved families and friends during the auspicious reunion dinner.

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Thai Steamed Fish (Pla Kapong Neung Manao – ปลากะพงนึ่งมะนาว)

Thai Steamed Fish (Pla Kapong Neung Manao – ปลากะพงนึ่งมะนาว)

Thai Steamed Fish is not only super easy and quick to cook, you find all flavours–savoury, garlicky, sourish, sweet and spicy–in one dish. Using very simple ingredients that you might already have in your kitchen, you get to serve this delicious Thai dish on your dining table in 15 minutes. Best served with rice and more chilli if you can take the heat!

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Taiwanese Pineapple Cake (Pineapple Winter Melon Paste) 鳳梨酥

Taiwanese Pineapple Cake (Pineapple Winter Melon Paste) 鳳梨酥

These buttery and delicious Taiwanese pineapple cakes are made with homemade pineapple and winter melon paste filling.

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Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)

Eight Treasures Pen Cai 八宝盆菜 (Special Chinese New Year Dish)

A seemingly complex yet deceptively easy dish to make. Pen Cai will be the quintessential Chinese New Year dish you can easily prepare and impress your loved families and friends during the auspicious reunion dinner.

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Taiwanese Pineapple Cake (Pineapple Winter Melon Paste) 鳳梨酥

Taiwanese Pineapple Cake (Pineapple Winter Melon Paste) 鳳梨酥

These buttery and delicious Taiwanese pineapple cakes are made with homemade pineapple and winter melon paste filling.

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