Mutton is often seen on our tables. It is a meat product that we often eat in our lives. It is very nutritious. It is hot and suitable for eating in winter. It has a significant effect of warming the stomach and dispelling cold. So can frozen mutton be made into soup directly? Many people freeze their uneaten mutton and take it out when they want to eat it. Can the frozen mutton be made into soup directly? How to make soup from frozen mutton? Let’s take a look below!
Can frozen mutton be made into soup directly?
No, the meat on the outside may be stewed and there may be ice residue inside. It is best to defrost it.
If it is just taken out of the refrigerator, the meat will not be cooked well. The lamb wrapped in a layer on the outside will be cooked first and the inside will be cooked slowly. If you wait until the inside is cooked, the outside meat will be cooked. Anyway, if the mutton is just taken out of the refrigerator and defrosted in the microwave, it can be cooked quickly~~
Ingredients for making mutton jelly:
< p>1000g mutton, 200g white radish
Seasoning: 5g salt, 3g chicken essence, half ginger, 3 cloves garlic, 5g light soy sauce, 5 dark soy sauce grams, 5 grams of rice wine, 1 green onion
Steps:
1. Prepared ingredients: rice wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, chicken essence, green onion, ginger, garlic
2. Main ingredients prepared: 1000 grams of mutton, 200 grams of white radish
3. Wash and peel the radish, quarter the radish and cut into four pieces
4. Peel and chop the ginger, cut the shallot into small pieces, and mince the garlic
5. Heat the vegetable oil pan, sauté the minced ginger and garlic, and add the mutton cubes
6. Add radish and green onions
7. Pour water until the mutton and radish are covered. After boiling over high heat, take out the mutton pieces
8. Put the mutton pieces into the inner pot of the electric pressure cooker, and add enough water to cover the mutton pieces
9. Cover the lid and set it to the bone broth setting for 35 minutes
10. After the pressure cooker is pressed, remove the bones, put the mutton into the pan, and add the soup broth
11. Add an appropriate amount of old wine and add dark soy sauce for color
12. Add light soy sauce, season to enhance freshness, add an appropriate amount of salt, which also enhances freshness, and finally put it into a bowl. After one night, the soup will solidify. Take off the bowl, turn it over and serve it on a plate.
Nutritional effects:
Mutton can not only drive away cold, but also nourish the body. It is good for general wind-cold cough, chronic bronchitis, cold asthma, kidney deficiency and impotence, abdominal cold pain, It has therapeutic and replenishing effects on all deficiencies such as physical weakness and fear of cold, soreness of waist and knees, sallow complexion, thinness of Qi and blood, physical weakness after illness or postpartum, etc. It is most suitable for consumption in winter, so it is called winter tonic and is deeply loved by people. welcome. Because mutton has an unpleasant smell of mutton, it is ignored by some people.
What should I do if the mutton is not cooked thoroughly?
1. If you are not in a hurry, just press the pressure cooker for a few more minutes. Usually it's 12-15 points, so just give it 20-25 points, it will always be bad.
2. If the meat you bought is too old and difficult to cook, there is no need to rush to cook it at this time. Before stewing the meat, you might as well apply a layer of mustard on the outside of the lamb and put it in the refrigerator. Wash off the mustard the next day and simmer it in a pot, which can greatly shorten the stewing time and make the mutton tender and delicious.
3. It is most scientific to use cold water to cook mutton. Using hot water will instantly denature the protein in the meat and make it hard, which will make the mutton very unpalatable. Boil the mutton in cold water. During the cooking process, the ice in the meat will sublimate into water vapor, so the meat will be soft and fragrant. Moreover, when the mutton is put in boiling water, the surface of the meat will be cooked instantly, and the blood inside will be locked. Running the pot under cold water can bring out the flavor inside.
4. After boiling over high heat, uncover the pot and simmer for 20 minutes to remove the odor, then cover and turn to low heat to keep the oil floating on the soup surface warm and act as a simmer. It will be easier to rot.
5. When cooking mutton, add salt last and add enough water at a time. If you find that there is less water, add boiling water. Don't add salt too early, otherwise it won't be fresh and soft.
6. When stewing mutton, you can choose to add some wine or vinegar. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of wine or 1 to 2 tablespoons of vinegar to stew 1 kilogram of mutton to make the meat tender.
7. 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.
8. After the water in the pot boils, be sure to turn to low heat and simmer slowly. At the same time, add dry hawthorn slices, which will speed up the softness.
Conclusion: Above we talked about whether the frozen mutton taken out of the refrigerator can be used directly to make soup. The answer is no. Try to thaw it before using it to make soup. In fact, whether it is mutton, pork, chicken, fish, etc., it is best not to use it directly for cooking after it is taken out of the refrigerator. It must be thawed before cooking.
Otherwise, the frozen meat will contain purine, which is not good for your health. It needs to be rinsed with clean water.