Different regions have different requirements for mutton hot pot, for example: Guangdong people don't eat spicy, Hunan people eat spicy, Sichuan people eat spicy, Shanghai people eat sweet and so on. Mutton hot pot usually ingredients are cooking wine, rock sugar, ginger, white onion, dried chili peppers, tangerine peel, peppercorns, star anise, grass fruits, cumin and so on.

1, cooking wine: the main ingredients are yellow wine, sugar, dextrin, organic acids, amino acids, esters, aldehydes, miscellaneous alcohol oil and leachate. The role is to deodorize and increase the aroma.

2, rock sugar: white granulated sugar decoction into ice-like crystals, is made from sucrose plus protein raw material formulations, by re-soluble, clean processing and recrystallization of large particles of crystalline sugar, monocrystalline and polycrystalline two kinds of transparent or translucent.

3, ginger: is the ginger family, the ginger genus of perennial herbaceous plants fresh rhizome, varieties of Yufeng ginger, Shandong Changyi noodles ginger, Qingzhou bamboo root ginger, Shanong one ginger, Qingzhou small yellow ginger.

4, scallion white: is the lily plant scallion near the root of the bulb, all over China are planted, ready to be picked.

5, dried chili: red chili pepper after natural drying, artificial dehydration and other processes and the formation of chili products. It is characterized by low water content and suitable for long-term preservation.

Eating Instructions

The Chinese medicine believes that mutton is warm, warms the middle and warms the kidneys, benefits the qi and replenishes the blood. The most obvious effect is that in winter, when you are afraid of cold, you will be warm after eating a few meals of mutton.

But it is worth noting that mutton is dry, cold or body heat is not suitable for more food, often eat mutton pot or mutton hot pot is also easy to "fire". Therefore, when eating hot pot, you can put a few pieces of chrysanthemum petals into the hot pot, not only the pot of chrysanthemum aroma, chrysanthemum can also clear heat and detoxification, clear the liver and eyesight, and evacuation of the wind and heat.

If you are afraid of fire, after eating mutton casserole or mutton hot pot, you can also eat some silver fungus, lilies, pears and other food that nourishes yin and moistens the dryness, or drink chrysanthemum, silver flowers and other fire-reducing medicines.

Source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Lamb Hot Pot