Mutton is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can tonify deficiency and warm the middle warmer, tonify kidney and strengthen yang, treat fatigue and cold, and treat five strains and seven injuries. It is an excellent warm and strong food. It has a good nourishing effect on all symptoms of yang deficiency, such as chronic asthma due to deficiency of cold, impotence due to kidney deficiency, abdominal cold pain, soreness of waist and knees, sallow and emaciated face, deficiency of both qi and blood, and physical weakness after illness or postpartum, and is especially suitable for people with yang deficiency constitution.

Modern nutritional value

1. Mutton is rich in protein and vitamins, but less in fat and cholesterol than pork and beef. Because people's body temperature is 37℃ and the fat melting point of mutton is 47℃, it is not easy to be absorbed by the body, and eating more is not easy to cause obesity. The cholesterol content of goat mutton is lower than that of mutton, which has the function of preventing arteriosclerosis and heart disease, and is more suitable for hyperlipidemia patients and the elderly.

2. Mutton can increase digestive enzymes, protect stomach wall, repair gastric mucosa and help digestion of spleen and stomach.

Mutton contains an anticancer substance, and this fatty acid called CLA has obvious therapeutic effect on cancer.

Diet should be avoided.

Suitable: it can be eaten by the general population, especially those with yang deficiency and cold in winter.

Avoid:

1) It is not advisable to drink tea immediately after eating mutton, nor to drink tea while eating mutton. Because mutton is rich in protein and tea contains more tannic acid, drinking tea immediately after eating mutton will produce a substance called protein tannic acid, which is easy to cause constipation.

2) Mutton is warm. It is warmer when used with spicy condiments such as pepper, pepper, ginger, clove and fennel, and should be eaten in moderation.

3) Mutton is warm, not suitable for people with fever, toothache, sore mouth and tongue, cough and phlegm. People with yin deficiency and dry heat should not eat more; Liver disease, hypertension, acute enteritis or other infectious diseases should not be eaten.

4) Traditionally, mutton is not suitable for eating with pumpkin, watermelon and catfish, but it is easy to cause qi stagnation, buckwheat, bean paste and prunes, but modern research has not found enough evidence.

Edible method

Eating mutton is different in different places. The back and hind legs of sheep are tender and easy to cook, suitable for frying, frying and rinsing; Tendon and breast are rich in gluten, tender and thin in tendon, less in sheep's head and tender in sheep's tail, which can be boiled, stewed, sauced and marinated. Neck meat is suitable for stuffing and meatballs because of its many connective tissues. To sum up, mutton can be roasted, stewed, sauced, marinated, fried, fried and rinsed. It is a common meat material for cooking medicated diet in winter.

1. pot method: yuba mutton pot is made of leg of lamb with skin, horseshoe, bamboo rattan, carrot, yuba, mushroom, etc. Cantonese people are afraid of getting angry, so they seldom cook with barbecue. They often use a lot of moist products to cook, neutralize the dryness of mutton, and it is not easy to get angry when they eat it often. It is indeed a nourishing product.

2. Stewing method: There are high requirements for the freshness of mutton. Mutton stew soup is original, sweet and delicious, and it is a delicious food in cold weather. Danggui mutton soup uses Danggui and ginger to cook mutton and soup to eat meat. Angelica sinensis is warm and moist, which can not only replenish blood and promote blood circulation, but also regulate menstruation, reduce swelling and relieve pain, moisten intestines and relax bowels, and play a role in moistening dryness and warming with ginger.

The proper collocation of different ingredients of stewed mutton can also play different roles. Adding 5g fennel is beneficial to those with severe kidney-yang deficiency; Using 20g of Astragalus membranaceus is beneficial to people with qi deficiency; Use Lycium barbarum 15g to improve eyesight, solidify essence, strengthen tendons and tonify kidney; Appropriate amount of radish can eliminate phlegm and promote digestion, tonify deficiency and strengthen the body, strengthen the spleen and stomach, warm meridians and dispel cold; There is no milk or lack of milk after delivery, and those with yang deficiency can be matched with pig's trotters; Old people with yang deficiency and those who are afraid of cold can be prepared with prepared Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata 10g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g, Cortex Cinnamomi and Fructus Anisi Stellati. Abdominal pain caused by deficiency of spleen and stomach, hernia pain caused by deficiency of liver and kidney, or dysmenorrhea caused by cold uterus in women can be mixed with Angelica sinensis 15g and ginger. Elderly constipation due to deficiency of kidney yang can take 20 grams of cistanche deserticola.

3. Rinse soup method: Guangdong instant-boiled mutton is mostly in the form of hot pot, which is especially suitable for winter consumption and can be eaten by the general population.

4. Burning method: Roast mutton is to fry the salted mutton until golden brown, put it at the bottom of the pot, add soup, Shaoxing wine, ginger, garlic, pork belly and seasonings, boil it with strong fire, then stew it with slow fire, and steam the meat. Its taste is mellow and tender. After steaming and boiling, mutton is more explosive, moist and less dry, and can be eaten by the general population.

5. Steaming and frying method: Before the establishment of Hainan Province, "East Goat" was one of the famous Cantonese dishes, and now it is listed as the top of Hainan's famous dishes. This dish is mainly mutton brisket, with ginger, onion, garlic and pepper as seasoning, which is more conducive to the warmth of mutton. This dish is seasoned with cinnamon, dried tangerine peel and fermented bean curd, and then boiled, fried, fried and steamed. It tastes delicious and has the effects of nutrition and beauty.