How to Make Year of the Ox "Cow Yee Sang"

Chinese New Year is coming! It's the Year of the Ox this year, so we will be sharing with you this simple video on how to make a cute Cow Yee Sang to celebrate.

For our Cow Yee Sang, we used a selection of fresh fruits and vegetables such as lettuce, radish, cucumber, beetroot, carrot, chuka wakame, strawberry, blueberry, pear and pineapple. Many of these ingredients symbolise good things for the year to come, such as carrot which symbolises blessings of good luck and pineapple's homonym "ong lai" sounds like "luck come".

A Yee Sang is not a yee sang without the "yu" as it symbolises abundance for the new year- you can use salmon sashimi, fish roe or abalone. We chose the latter, which symbolises definite good fortune.  Before tossing, pour in the crackers (use bo cui or Tam Tam crackers, which both look like gold ingots) to symbolise the whole floor filled with gold, crushed peanuts to mean a household filled with gold and silver and your sweet dressing (may life always be sweet). 

Happy Niu Year everyone - have an a-MOO-zing year in 2021!

Check out the YouTube video here (link here)

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Cow Yee Sang (Abalone Yu Sheng)
Recipe and design by Baby Sumo
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Serves 4

Ingredients
1/3 radish, peeled and julienned
1/2 carrot, peeled and julienned
3-4 lettuce leaves, washed
1/2 Japanese cucumber, peeled and julienned
Chuka wakame (seasoned seaweed)
6 strawberries, thinly sliced
1/2 pear, peeled and julienned
Pineapple chunks
Beetroot
Blueberry
Roasted (nori) seaweed

Abalone

Condiments
1/2 cup peanuts, crushed
Tam Tam Cracker (or Bo cui cracker)

For the dressing
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp honey



1. For the dressing, place oil, balsamic vinegar and honey in a bowl and mix well.

2. Take some of the radish and add a tablespoon of beetroot juice to colour it pink.

3.For the Year of the Cow (Ox), use the white and pink radish to form a cow face. Form ears using pear and horns using carrot. Use blueberries for its eyes and nostrils. Cut out some roasted seaweed for the black spots on cow face. I also arranged the pineapples to form a sun and cut some of the strawberries into heart shapes. Arrange the rest of the vegetables and fruits in an attractive manner.

3. Just before tossing, place crushed nuts, and crackers on the plate, and pour the dressing all over the yee sang. Toss, shouting out "good wishes" and enjoy!

Note:
1. To assist with julienning the vegetable, get the julienne peeler from Daiso... so handy and does the job really quickly! You may also use a spiralizer.

2. If you do not have white balsamic vinegar, you may substitute with 3-4 calamansi limes. The sauce should taste sweet and sour. You may also use 1 tbsp plum sauce to 2 tbsp oil.
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