When it comes to mutton delicacies, it will definitely make everyone drool. Everyone knows that mutton is a very nutritious food. But when making mutton at home, it often happens that it doesn’t cook well. This makes many friends who are not good at cooking no longer want to cook mutton. In fact, there are still many tricks to make mutton soft and delicious. If you master these methods, you can stew soft mutton.
1. Tips for stewing mutton
1. If the meat you buy is too old, you don’t have to rush to cook it. You can apply a layer of mustard on the outside of the mutton and then put it in the refrigerator. . Wash off the mustard the next day and simmer it in a pot, which can shorten the stewing time and make the mutton tender and delicious.
2. Use hot water, do not add cold water. Hot water can quickly coagulate the protein on the surface of the mutton, prevent the amino acids in the meat from being leached out, and keep the meat delicious; after boiling over high heat, uncover the pot and simmer for 20 minutes to remove the odor, then cover and switch to low heat to make the soup noodles The floating oil maintains the temperature and acts as a stew.
3. During the cooking process, the salt should be added late and the water should be added enough at one time. If the water is found to be low, boiling water should be added; the day before stewing the meat, apply mustard on the surface of the meat to stew the meat. Wash it with cold water before cooking, so that it not only cooks faster, but also the meat is fresh and tender.
4. When stewing mutton, add some wine or vinegar. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of wine or 1 to 2 tablespoons of vinegar to 1 kilogram of mutton to stew the mutton. It can also make the meat soft and rotten.
5. When stewing mutton, add a pinch of tea leaves (wrapped in a gauze bag) and cook together. The mutton will be cooked quickly, and the taste of the mutton will not change at all. If you don’t have tea at home, you can use hawthorn instead. Both tea and hawthorn can make mutton crispy and remove the fishy smell.
2. Recommended mutton recipes
1. Stewed mutton with radish
⑴Ingredients
Mutton, water chestnuts, radish, angelica, and zhizhu , garlic, hoisin sauce, oyster sauce.
⑵ Method
① Cut the mutton into pieces and blanch the mutton in hot water to remove the fishy smell. The time can be slightly longer, about 25 minutes.
② Heat oil and sauté garlic until fragrant, then add mutton and sauté until fragrant, then add seafood sauce and oyster sauce and sauté thoroughly.
③Put water chestnuts, radish, angelica and other ingredients into the pot, add soup and water, and simmer until tender.
2. Yam and mutton soup
⑴Ingredients
200 grams each of mutton and yam, 6 slices each of carrots, 1 green garlic, 2 slices of angelica, wolfberry 15 ml, 4 slices each of Chuanxiong, Astragalus, and ginger, 4 black dates, 1000 ml broth, 500 ml water, 120 ml rice wine, 5 ml salt
⑵ Preparation method
① Green garlic Wash and cut into diagonal slices; peel and cut the yam into cubes; peel and slice the carrots;
②Put the yam, carrots and mutton into a pot together, add other ingredients (salt is added when the pot is out of the pot), and season with salt. Wrap the mouth of the pot with hot glue film, cover the pot, transfer to a steamer, heat water, and steam for 30-40 minutes.
③Add salt and green garlic slices before turning off the heat, put it into a bowl and eat immediately.