Shanxian mutton soup is made of local high-quality goats as raw materials, fresh meat, skeleton and seasonings are reasonably matched, and oil is emulsified at high temperature. Its main feature is that the soup is thick without oily flowers, delicious and delicious, but not greasy.
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Shan county in Shandong province is located at the junction of eight counties in Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, with the old Yellow River in the south and Dasha River running through the whole territory in the north. With abundant water plants, shady trees, abundant sunshine and humid climate, it is a natural high-quality pasture, known as "the hometown of China green goats". The mutton in Shanxian County is tender and delicious, with little fishy smell. Its color is white as milk, water and fat blend, texture is pure, delicious and refreshing, appetizing and invigorating the spleen. When eaten in the mouth, it is delicious, fragrant but not greasy, rotten but not paste.
Shanxian mutton soup is very particular about cooking. The method is as follows: firstly, add 50 liters of water into the pot, and when the pot boils, put in 30 kg of fresh meat, 30 kg of mutton offal and two pairs of skeleton, boil it with strong fire (firewood is better), remove the bleeding foam and dirty air with a bamboo spoon, add cold water 10 kg, then remove the blood foam after the pot is boiled, and then put 3 kg of sheep oil into the pot and grate the blood foam again for a while. Then put all kinds of condiments, such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Cortex Cinnamomi, Fructus Tsaoko, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, and Semen Armeniacae Amarum, into the pot according to a certain proportion, add salt at the same time, and cook for another 40 minutes, and add a little clove noodles when filling the bowl. There are two key techniques in boiling: first, the use of various condiments, most of which are too strong, and less is greasy and unclean; The second is to master the heat. If the fire is small, it can't achieve the blending of water and oil. If the fire is too urgent, it will not taste completely, and it will lose nutrients. Many people want to learn the skill of Shanxian broth, and it is because they can't master these two points that they fail.
Shanxian mutton soup has a history of 200 years, which is as famous as many famous foods in China. Such as Jinhua ham and Beijing roast duck. It is known as the south leg and the north duck and the middle soup. In the Chinese famous food spectrum, only Shandong Shanxian mutton soup is included in the spectrum, which is called "the best soup in the world" by Chinese people.
There are three unique skills in Shan county: mutton soup, Baishifang and Baishoufang. There are 100 lifelike lions with different postures carved on the clamp column of Hundred Lions Square. Baishoufang is carved with the word "Shou" in 100 different styles. The two workshops are exquisite in structure, exquisite in carving, refined in knife cutting, simple and elegant, complex but not chaotic, and can be called art treasures. And the masons and carvers who build the workshop drink mutton soup every day. If you don't drink for a day, you will be listless and don't work. Some people say: the two squares are poured out of mutton soup, and the first of the three must be mutton soup.
Shan county is rich in green goats. Mutton soup has a history of thousands of years. Until more than 200 years ago, Xiguan Xu Gui made improvements to it, carried it forward, and created the brand of "Sanyihe", which was famous all over the world. After the fire was passed on to four generations, it was inherited and developed by "Sanyichun". It takes fresh mutton as the main ingredient, and when cooking, the mutton and pepper, anise, angelica dahurica, cassia bark, cinnamon, dried tangerine peel, Amomum villosum, onion, ginger and other condiments are added, and boiled with water until the meat is cooked and the soup is milky white. When eating, chop the cooked mutton in the soup, put it in a bowl, then put the mutton soup on it, and add refined salt, minced garlic, coriander and spicy oil. It is delicious, fat but not greasy, and it is a must. In sales, every time water is added, a certain amount of raw meat is added and then boiled, and it is added when it is sold to keep the soup delicious. There are also mutton soup cooked with mutton offal as the main material, such as smallpox soup, mouth soup, tripe soup, milk residue soup, heart, liver, lung and intestine soup, etc., with different colors and flavors. It is a perfect match to eat with the hanging stove sesame seed cake. The unique style of Shanxian mutton soup is praised by South Renye Fang, which doesn't eat mutton. At present, Shanxian mutton soup has become a good hospitality product, and it has blossomed everywhere in Shandong and Henan. 1986 broke into the capital, with a flood of diners and popularity.
Speaking of Shanxian mutton soup, there is another story. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Song and Zheng fought in a place not far from Shan County. Before the war, Song coach Hua Yuan arranged to kill sheep and cook soup, and personally rewarded the soldiers. Maybe it was dark under the lights, but he forgot to give it to the sheep driving. The next day, on the battlefield, the coachman said to Huayuan viciously, "You had the final say in splitting the mutton soup yesterday, and I have the final say in today's matter." So I drove Huayuan into the enemy line and made a prisoner. This is the origin of the idiom "go their own way". According to the research of a busybody, the chef who cooks soup is from Shan County. Look how powerful this Shanxian mutton soup is!
Although mutton soup is mellow, before the reform and opening up, there was not enough food to eat. It is a beautiful thing that can only be realized in a dream to let go of your stomach and drink mutton soup. When you go to the store, look at the cauldron where the soup is cooked, smell the attractive fragrance, touch the shriveled pocket and leave with a sigh. That sigh is even longer than the Yellow River! Now that life is better, I have money in my pocket, and drinking mutton soup has become a habit. I want to panic if I don't drink it for two days. It is said that it is often impossible to find someone in Shan County during the meal. Where is it? To paraphrase a sentence: "Either drink mutton soup in the mutton soup restaurant or on the way to drink mutton soup."
Shanxian Mutton Soup
Shanxian County in Shandong Province is now the administrative region under its jurisdiction.
Notice of Shanxian People's Government on Determining the Protection Scope of Shanxian Mutton Soup Geographical Indications, No.7 [2012] of Shan Zheng Zi.
Local Standard of Shandong Province: DB37/T797-2007 Shanxian Mutton Soup