Healthy Yee Sang Salad for Chinese New Year

‘Yee Sang or Yu Sheng’ is a salad made with fresh shredded vegetables, fruits, crackers and usually raw fish. Also known as “prosperity toss” salad. Yee Sang is a must have during Chinese New Year in Malaysia and Singapore. It is a fun, colourful and delicious salad.

When Chinese New Year is around the corner, you see restaurants start putting up yee sang set ups . Supermarket or grocers would also sell them in pre-packed boxes for easy take away. I’ve had the restaurant versions and boxed versions but I never had homemade version.

There are many different types of combinations of ingredients that can be used. Tossing yee sang is great way to celebrate the festive season with family, friends and colleagues as the dish itself symbolizes abundance and prosperity.

Yee Sang is usually served as the first dish, during the 15 days of Chinese New Year (some even before) as a form of good luck for the new lunar year. Whether its a homemade or restaurant version, the abundance of colours are the other main attractions of the dish. So I kinda made my own version with a few different colours of vegetables this year.

It’s not hard to make it at home, but it’s quite alot of work!

Enjoy! Huat ar!

Healthy Yee Sang Salad For Chinese New Year

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Prep Time 45 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 50 minutes mins

Course Appetizer

Servings 10

Ingredients

  

MAIN INGREDIENTS

• Carrots, shredded
• Daikon, shredded
• Cucumber, shredded
• Beets, shredded
• Corn, cooked
• Red cabbage, shredded
• Cherry tomatoes, whole
• Pomegranate seeds
• Mango, sliced
• Mandarin orange, segmented

SAUCE

• 4 tbsp Plum sauce
• 2 tbsp Honey
• Juice of 2 limes

OTHER CONDIMENTS

• Crushed peanuts
• Roasted sesame seeds
• Crackers

Instructions

 

• Arrange all the ingredients on a big plate.
• Make the sauce by mixing plum sauce, honey and lime juice.
• Sprinkle sesame seeds and crushed peanuts.
• Pour sauce over yee sang in a circular motion.
• Toss the salad as high as you can and say auspicious wishes for the coming year during the “lou hei” tossing ceremony.
• Eat

Notes

Other Ingredients:-

Seafood: fresh salmon, smoked salmon, jelly fish, abalone

Nuts: sunflower seeds, Pumpkin seeds

Fruits: pomelo, papaya

The idea is to keep the yee sang colourful and to ensure that you’ll be able to hold the ingredients with chopsticks and toss them high up.