Scorpions are also called sheep spines or sheep keels. To put it bluntly, it is the whole spine of the sheep, and sometimes the bones in the neck of the sheep are also included.
A complete scorpion should be a complete sheep spine from the neck to the tip of the tail. Because the sheep keel looks like a "ya" shape in cross section, there is a small fork at the bottom of the "ya" shape, and the whole shape is a scorpion shape with claws, so it is called a sheep scorpion.
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Scorpions have both tenderloin and spinal cord, which are nutritious, delicious and smooth. Sheep scorpion can be said to be the best in mutton. The main way to eat is to stew soup or make clear soup hot pot. Its soup is fragrant but not smelly, and it also has the special effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, supplementing calcium and benefiting qi.
It has been more than 300 years in China to make clear soup hot pot with sheep scorpion, and it is still one of the popular hot pots.
Some restaurants write "sheep scorpion" as "sheep scorpion", which is actually wrong. Because the word "Jie" refers to "Jie sheep", that is, castrated rams.
Sheep scorpion, I take it back to my hometown every year, but my hometown really can't understand this food. Why do you have to call it a scorpion? But it is said that it is delicious after eating.
In fact, this name is not difficult to understand. As long as you have seen the complete sheep scorpion, you will understand that the first person to hand over this name is simply a genius-
Judging from this structure, does it look like a scorpion?
Needless to say, the scorpion is the backbone of the sheep. Generally, there are two kinds of scorpions on the market, one is bone scorpions without meat, and the other is meat scorpions that are not shaved cleanly, and the price is slightly higher. Just a few years ago, one hundred dollars could buy two scorpions, and now there is almost one. Talk about the speed of price increase.
Why are sheep scorpions delicious? There are three main reasons: bone marrow, bone marrow and sauce.
Gourmets all know that if you eat meat, the ideal appetizer is the circle where the meat faces the bone. From the point of view of meat, it is really no different from ordinary tenderloin, but there is a lot of gluten here, especially when the bone is stewed, the layer of meat torn from the bone is very elastic; Moreover, people who like to eat brittle bones, how can they miss this part? Therefore, the delicious meat is certainly not to be missed.
Since it is a spine, there is naturally a spinal cord. If you eat a stick, the spinal cord is usually sucked through a straw. Many people who eat it for the first time smoke it all at once and still have to burn it. Mainly there is a lot of bone marrow and oil in the wooden stick. As for the spine, the two ends are transparent, and the oil has already leaked into the soup. What's left is a large piece of bone marrow. You can eat it in your mouth by poking it with chopsticks. What do you need to say about this taste?
There are many ways to eat sheep scorpions, such as roasted sheep scorpions, which have become popular in recent years and attracted many people. But to tell the truth, it is the most popular to sauce the scorpion, because the scorpion is rich in amino acids, and the practice of sauce meat can hydrolyze amino acids to the greatest extent. The final result is one word-fresh.
Finally, scorpion, don't think about buying it directly and chopping it yourself. It's really hard to cut, and the axe doesn't work ... talking too much is just tears.
What exactly is a "sheep scorpion"? It's really interesting to say. Why do you say that? Because unless you have eaten it yourself or have a little knowledge of food, you have no idea what this "sheep scorpion" is, and most people really don't understand it.
Speaking of Beijing's delicious food, I think the most representative ones are old copper pot instant-boiled mutton, stewed mutton with brine, hot pot mutton scorpion, especially clear soup mutton scorpion.
The question "which part of the sheep is a scorpion" is actually very simple. To put it bluntly, it is the backbone of the sheep, that is, the backbone of the sheep from beginning to end (leaving a small part of the meat). Why do you have the word "scorpion" in your name? It is also recorded in the literature that in the Qing Dynasty, a prince in a palace often used sheep's spine to stew hot pot. This bone was shaped like a scorpion before it was chopped, and later it was named scorpion, which is the origin of scorpion's name.
In the past, the eating method of sheep and scorpions was also particular, which was roughly divided into three steps: stewed sheep scorpion, eating soup first, then eating bones, then instant-boiled mutton and vegetables (mainly cabbage). Let's follow these three steps to eat. Specifically, what is good about the nutrition and delicacy of the scorpion? If you understand, you may really like this kind of food.
First, stewed sheep scorpion, the taste of soup is mainly "fragrant" with a "fresh" taste. You should have soup first.
Scorpions used to make hot pot are usually made from the spines of rams, which were "castrated" when they were very young. When they grow up, mutton and sheep bones will be tasteless.
The so-called "bone-free is not fragrant", we usually make soup, why do we use sheep bones, cow bones or pig bones, mainly to get its "fragrant" taste, and there are a lot of mutton on the sheep bones themselves, and the "fresh" taste comes out again. So to eat sheep scorpion hot pot, you should drink soup first.
Second, eat meat after drinking soup, even the flesh and blood are delicious and delicious, with bone marrow inside.
This is another feature of the scorpion. Let's talk about flesh and blood first. People who usually eat meat like to choose flesh and blood to eat. Why? Because even flesh and blood are attached to the bones, close to the bones, the taste is the most "fragrant" and the taste is the most chewy.
In addition, it is the bone marrow in the bone. The sheep bone used by scorpions is the backbone of sheep. There is a lot of bone marrow in the spine. This kind of bone marrow is rare in other bones, not to mention its nutritional value. Therefore, after eating soup and meat, you should also suck out the bone marrow inside. Old diners who can eat usually bring their own small straws, hehe.
Third, after eating soup and meat, it is more perfect to rinse some mutton and cabbage.
It says it wants soup and meat. It would be more perfect if this scorpion was used to rinse hot pot. The first is instant-boiled mutton. It is of course the most suitable to use mutton bone soup to rinse mutton. How can there be no vegetables in hot pot? Rinse some Chinese cabbage or small rapeseed, or order some noodles mixed with meat dishes, so you are full. A pot of sheep scorpion was not wasted in the end.
Stewed sheep scorpion's easiest way.
All the above are about how to eat sheep scorpions, but is it troublesome to do it? In fact, it is very simple, as follows: chop the fresh sheep scorpion into large pieces. Of course, it's best to let others cut it when you buy it, otherwise it will cost a lot of money, and your hands-on ability is poor, and you can't cut it for half an hour. Don't doubt it.
Then put the pot into the water, only put ginger slices (don't put onions, onions stink easily), cook wine, put some peppers and angelica dahurica at most, and don't need to put others. Mutton stew is the most taboo. Then simmer for 2 hours, and sprinkle some salt (stewed mutton and the like, just a little salty) before taking out the pot.
There are children and old people at home in winter, so it is beneficial to stew some sheep and scorpions.
The mutton scorpion is stewed, the soup is delicious, the thick mutton bone soup is delicious, and the mutton bone is rich in nutrition, which is very suitable for the elderly and children. In addition, the practice is simple. Friends who have time can try it. After the sheep scorpion is stewed, it will be used as a hot pot. The family will eat steaming, thinking and thinking.
Don't make wild guesses. This is a sheep scorpion. You may buy fakes.
Which part of the sheep is the scorpion?
Thank you for inviting me: I'm confused by scorpions, and I really don't know what it is. I didn't know until I answered this question. Scorpions are the backbone and back of sheep. Because my Mandarin is not standard, I often express it in dialects. Now I understand.
I always like to eat mutton hotpot and mutton scorpion soup in autumn and winter. It will be better to eat in autumn. Drinking soup in cold winter is the best choice to warm the stomach and drive away the cold. Boil the Yangxiezi soup with medicinal materials, add red dates, yellow Dangdang, Lycium barbarum, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, a little raw Qiang, mutton soup and simmer soup for 3 hours, which is rich in flavor and delicious.
Practice: sheep scorpion, boiled water, white? Stir-fried, put in water, put the herbs together in a pot and cook for at least three hours. Medicinal materials should also be weighed, and red dates can't be round.
This soup has the taste of my hometown, and it is the best tonic for people with weak body and cold constitution. Eat a few more times and you will get immediate results.
Mutton is low in fat and cholesterol, rich in protein and nutrition, which is beneficial to physical and mental health and physical fitness. There are many ways to do it. All parts of .......... have their own characteristics and taste better.
My famous food recommendation here is roast mutton, which has a unique taste and a good price.
"Sheep scorpion" is a complete sheep spine from neck to tail tip.
1. When merchants in Beijing and its surrounding areas sell mutton, they always pick it out and sell it in different parts. Different parts have different prices. Remove the remaining bones, the limbs are called "big bones", and the complete spine is named "sheep scorpion" because it looks like a scorpion.
2. Scorpions are cheap. After chopping and stewing, its soup is delicious and there is not much meat on the bones. It is a relatively affordable food.
We are all familiar with scorpions. I believe many friends have eaten scorpions, but which part of the sheep is scorpions? What are the specific statements that many people may not know? This question and answer mountain will be introduced to you in detail, hoping to help curious friends.
There are many kinds of sheep, and they are kind and timid by nature, but there is a folk saying that they are heroic sheep. Belonging to the earliest animals that have contact with humans, it can be traced back to ancient times. Famous breeds include Boer goat, small-tailed Han sheep, Dupo sheep, Saneng dairy goat, etc. Among them, small-tailed Han sheep is an excellent breed in China and enjoys a high reputation in the world.
Scorpions are no strangers to people who have lived in the countryside. When I was a child, I probably caught scorpions and sold them for money to eat fried scorpions. Although people living in cities have never seen scorpions, they should have seen them on TV, and they have all seen the cartoon "Huluwa". I believe everyone is not familiar with scorpion essence, which has always been a representative of evil and diabolical. For example, the scorpion essence in The Journey to the West is the embodiment of beauty and magic.
Perhaps it is hard for us to imagine how people can name sheep as a kind and docile animal. But from the outside, they are really alike.
A whole sheep is like this.
It doesn't look anything like a scorpion.
But when almost all the mutton is shaved ... does it feel like a scorpion?
It is said that the early mutton was scraped clean, and people would not eat sheep bones. It was Su Dongpo who came up with this method of eating mutton, and specially asked the mutton seller to leave some meat on the bones. The result was so delicious that it was handed down.
I still agree with this statement, because there were not so many sheep in ancient times, especially in the Central Plains, and the output of mutton was even less. Therefore, only princes and nobles have the right to eat mutton, so it is really difficult for Su Dongpo to eat mutton after being demoted.
And these nobles are obviously disdainful of eating sheep bones, or eating meat from sheep bones. I have to admire Su Dongpo's cleverness and feel that these arrogant ancients missed such delicious food before Su Dongpo.
However, for the name of the sheep scorpion, I prefer to explain it in words and dialects, not because the shape of the sheep thorn is similar to that of the scorpion.
As shown above, scorpions refer to the sheep's spine, which is segmented.
Scorpion refers not only to scorpions, but to all arthropods, such as locusts, butterflies, shrimps, crabs, centipedes and so on. All belong to arthropods, and their bodies and limbs are segmented, so I think the origin of the sheep scorpion may be related to the interpretation of the word scorpion.
As for why, it should be related to Shandong dialect. Many of them have belts in many titles, such as gecko, where they are called topkapi, and snail is called snail buff; Toad is called a crooked stick; Tadpoles are called Gudangzi, Toad Gadou and so on. They have many ribbons.
One of the most interesting things should be eyelashes. They call it eyelashes. When I first heard it, I felt something in my eyes.
To sum up, scorpions refer to the spine of sheep, and many people think that it is wrong to refer to the whole sheep shelf, or to say that scorpion sheep (fanning sheep) is wrong. Scorpions are delicious and nutritious. You can eat more if you like, and friends who haven't tasted it can try it.
On the street, there are plaques on the facade that say "Capricorn" and some that say "Sheep Scorpion". Everyone knows that both of them are sold by boiling sheep spines. Is it Capricorn or Scorpion? This is a question worth talking about.
In modern Chinese dictionaries, "Xie" is pronounced as "Xie". Jie is a nation in ancient China and a branch of Xiongnu. It used to live in the south of Shanxi Province. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after Zhao established political power in the Yellow River valley, Jie people became king. There are two words beginning with the word "knot": one is "knot drum", which is an ancient drum in China. It has skin on both sides and a thin waist and is said to come from the knot family; The second "Jie sheep" is a castrated ram. The pronunciation of "scorpion" is "Xie". There are three words beginning with the word "scorpion": one is "tokage", that is, gecko; The second kind of "scorpion", an arthropod, is mostly yellow-brown. It has a pair of claws on both sides of its mouth, four pairs of feet on its chest, a thick front abdomen, a slender back abdomen and a poisonous hook at the end, which is used to defend against enemies or prey. Viviparous, feeding on insects. Chinese medicine; Third, there are two kinds of "scorpion grass", one of which is that people are stung by scorpions and can be treated with the stem or juice of this grass.
Therefore, "Jie" and "Scorpion" are not homonyms or synonyms, and they are completely different. Then, should the boiled sheep spine sold in restaurants be called "Capricorn" or "Sheep Scorpion"? The answer is yes, it should be the latter-The Sheep Scorpion. Because there are several ribs in the front half of the sheep's spine, which are very similar to the feet of scorpions, the back of the sheep's spine is slender and very similar to the back abdomen of scorpions, and it looks like the shape of scorpions as a whole, so it is named "Sheep Scorpions".
Nowadays, the "Capricorn" on the street has been flooded, confusing people and hurting many people. I believe that in many people's concepts, "Capricorn" will be equivalent to "Xie", which is probably confused by the "sheep" on the left. Talking about "sheep scorpion" and eating "sheep scorpion" is probably another matter.
Next time we eat sheep scorpions, look at the signs before entering the door. If the words are not authentic, what shall we eat?