Chinese New Year food recipes: Green bamboos declare the arrival of spring

Bamboo is an ancipious plant in Chinese culture. Green symbolizes spring and exuberant vitality. This dish is an pictographic artwork made especially to fit the occasion of Spring festival. It takes only about 20 minutes to make it.

Material:

Minced pork 150 g, 2 cucumbers, 1 soup spoon of soy bean paste, 1/2 soup spoon of sugar, 2 soup spoons of cooking oil

Method: 

1. Cut the cucumbers into 5 cm long of segments. Make a groove in size 3*1*2 cm on each segment. 
2. Warm the cooking oil in a pan.  Put the minced pork in the pan. Stir-fry until the pork is no longer pink. 
3. Form a bamboo picture with the cucumber segments and the cucumber skin you cut away from the cucumbers when you made the grooves.
4. Put the soy bean paste and sugar in the pan. Stir-fry with moderately quick oven for 3 minutes.
5. Fill the grooves with the pork mixture.

Cooking is an art. It is really funny to DIY a beautiful and tasty dish at home. Enjoy :)