Hexi Corridor has been the only way to the western regions since ancient times, and it is also the only place where the famous Silk Road passes. The water plants here are rich and beautiful, suitable for cattle and sheep breeding. Mutton is the most common food on the local table, and many foods are derived from mutton. Among them, mutton roll is the most representative food, which has a grassland style.

Mutton pad paper is one of the local specialty snacks in Yongchang County, Gansu Province in Hexi Corridor. Different from grasping mutton by hand, it has both the boldness of grasping mutton by hand and the exquisiteness of Hexi pasta.

In Hexi area, because the staple food of sheep is salty grass in Beishan, mutton is tender, thin and tasteless, and it is delicious. Jinchang lamb pad paper pays attention to materials, strict formula and excellent technology. During production, lambs aged 1-2 were slaughtered, cooked uniquely, flour rolls were added to the broth, and processed at the same time. Positive color, pure taste, rich fragrance, fresh and delicious, unforgettable.

However, mutton pad paper was not so beautiful when it was invented. Instead, there is a lot of helplessness. Maybe you don't know, the initial production of mutton pad paper actually started from "killing sheep" every winter and spring. Why kill the lamb? It turns out that in the breeding season of sheep in winter and spring every year, a large number of lambs are born on the grassland.

Usually these lambs can't be raised, because the grassland area is limited after all. In order to better graze and protect the grassland, people should slaughter a certain number of lambs according to the requirements of grassland carrying capacity, so as to maintain the balance of grassland.

This was originally a last resort. Those slaughtered lambs are generally not much bigger than rabbits, and their skins are elongated and used as lamb skins in the future; And their large amount of meat, herdsmen invented mutton pad paper through stew, and it became a local famous food in the future. Therefore, it is best to use mutton for the mutton pad.

Chop mutton, stir-fry with clear oil, add onion, garlic slices, dried Chili, add ginger powder, pepper powder, salt and other condiments, and stew with water until it is 80% cooked. Roll the dough into pancakes with clear oil, roll it into a tube, cut it into inches, put it on the meat, and stew it until the dough is cooked and the meat is rotten. Mutton pad paper is famous for its fragrant noodles, tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition. Mutton and refined flour, both soft and hard, have the delicacy of mutton and the authentic chewing head of Hexi high-quality flour, which complement each other. It is the combination of red flowers and green leaves, talented people and beautiful women that makes a wonderful combination.

Different from grasping mutton by hand, it has both the boldness of grasping mutton by hand and the exquisiteness of Hexi pasta. Compared with the pure nomadic lifestyle in Mongolia, there is a relatively developed farming civilization here, and the cultural blending is also reflected in a folk food, which is also relatively critical.