Mutton is divided into sheep meat and goat meat. Mutton has a light smell, while goat has a heavy smell. In addition to the smell, mutton is dark red, with solid meat, soft muscle fibers, a small amount of fat mixed between muscles, and red and white like marble. Goat meat is red in color, soft in meat, thick in muscle fiber and fat-free between muscles, and its appearance is similar to that of ordinary livestock meat.

Generally speaking, compared with pork, mutton contains more protein and less fat. Vitamin B 1, B2, B6, iron, zinc and selenium are quite rich. In addition, mutton is tender and easy to digest and absorb. Eating more mutton helps to improve your immunity. "If you want to live a long life, you should always eat mutton" is scientifically based.

Mutton is higher in calories than beef, and has always been regarded as one of the important foods to keep out the cold and tonify in autumn and winter. Eating mutton often in cold winter can replenish qi and deficiency, promote blood circulation and enhance the ability to keep out the cold. Mutton can also increase digestive enzymes, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen, and help digestion. Chinese medicine believes that mutton is beneficial to kidney and liver, especially suitable for the elderly or weak young people. There are many ways to eat mutton, such as frying, frying, roasting, roasting, sauce and rinsing. Here are some ways to eat mutton. Do the same at home. You can enjoy cooking while enjoying delicious mutton.

White-cut goat is the top grade of Changyang goat in Hubei, and Hainan East goat is also good. Cut the goat mutton into long cubes with a length of 20cm, a width of13cm and a thickness of about 5cm, and then rinse them. Heat with clear water in a wok, make anise, clove, cinnamon, pepper, fennel and dried tangerine peel into seasoning packages, then pat ginger loose, tie shallots together, put them in a pot and boil them with refined salt, soy sauce, yellow wine, sugar and instant-boiled mutton, and simmer for about 40 minutes. Take out the mutton, drain it and put it in the refrigerator for the night. Take out the refrigerated mutton, cut it into thin slices about 5 cm long, 3 cm wide and 0, 3 cm thick, then put it in a flat plate and pour sesame oil on it. White-cut sheep is fresh and mellow in color, compact in meat quality and rich in sauce flavor. Even people with spleen and stomach deficiency and indigestion can enjoy it with confidence.

It is best to choose goat mutton with belt and bone for mutton pot. Put the mutton in a clear water pot, boil it over medium heat, take it out and wash it. Heat L tablespoons of oil in a wok, add green garlic, ginger slices and mutton for frying, and then add cinnamon, dried pepper, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, crystal sugar, refined salt and monosodium glutamate. After boiling, simmer over medium heat. At the same time, add carrot pieces, stew until rotten, and the juice is thick. Braised mutton is rich in nutrition, and various condiments can remove the smell and keep delicious. Chinese medicinal materials such as Fructus Lycii can also be added. Winter is a good choice for women who are not warm and afraid of cold.

The first two dishes of mutton hot pot are all made of goat meat, and mutton hot pot is best made of mutton. Small-tailed sheep produced in Inner Mongolia are the best. Only the tender parts of mutton (i.e. upper brain, big fork, small fork, grinding fork and cucumber strips) are sliced. When eating, put it into the mutton hot pot, rinse it with hot soup and dip it. The dip can be sesame sauce, soy sauce, cooking wine, fermented milk, pickled leek and Chili oil.

Guangdong people who know how to keep in good health are very particular about the soup base of mutton hot pot. Adding angelica, ginger, mutton warming qi and blood and angelica enriching blood to relieve pain can enhance the efficacy of tonifying deficiency, dispelling cold and relieving pain, and has a good nourishing effect on the weak, anemia and emaciated. In addition, adding ginseng to the soup base, boiling with low fire for 10 minutes, and then adding mutton to make hot pot, not only the soup is rich in fresh meat flavor, but also has the effects of invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, nourishing lung, calming the heart and improving intelligence, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

It is worth noting that mutton is relatively dry, and it is easy to "get angry" if you often eat mutton pots and mutton hot pots. Therefore, after eating mutton pot or mutton hot pot, you can eat some foods such as tremella, lily, pear, etc., or drink some herbal tea containing chrysanthemum and honeysuckle for purging fire. In addition, people with exogenous cold or internal heat should not eat mutton. & lt/SPAN>。