Sheep and scorpions can be traced back to the Kangxi period. King Naiman, the Mongolian prince, came back from hunting and passed by the backyard and smelled the fragrant aroma. After asking the servants, I found out that the new cook was stewing the lamb spine for the servants to eat. Prince Naiman tastes delicious. Then he saw that the shape of the spine resembled a scorpion, so he named it "Sheep Scorpion" and made it a family recipe. Later it spread to the people.

Sheep scorpion can be called a high-quality and low-priced gourmet snack. The main raw material is the sheep keel, which is the most nutritious and delicious in sheep - the complete bone from the neck to the tip of the tail with tenderloin and spinal cord. The sheep spine, each section of the sheep keel, is shaped into a "Y" shape when viewed from a cross section, and underneath the "Y" shape, there is a small bifurcation, which is the flamboyant shape of a scorpion. , hence the name "Sheep Scorpion".

When Su Shi was demoted to Danzhou, he was very poor and could only spend a few pennies to buy sheep spines that the butcher did not want to stew in. It was named after its shape like a scorpion.

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Lamb Spine Hot Pot (yáng xiē zi) (Lamb Spine Hot Pot) is a complete sheep spine with tenderloin and spinal cord. Because its shape is similar to a scorpion, it is Commonly known as Sheep and Scorpion. Sheep and scorpion are low in fat, low in cholesterol, high in protein and rich in calcium. It is easy to absorb, has the effects of nourishing yin and kidney, beautifying and aphrodisiac. It is often used to make clear soup hot pot, which is delicious.

Sheep and scorpion hot pot in clear soup with sheep and scorpion as the main ingredient has a history of more than 300 years in northern my country. On the basis of the original clear soup, pepper, pepper, tempeh, cinnamon, cumin, pepper, dried More than 30 kinds of pure natural Chinese herbal spices such as ginger, galangal, Amomum villosum, cloves, kaempferol, angelica root, astragalus root, rehmannia root, peppercorns, grass fruit and other more than 30 kinds of pure natural Chinese medicinal spices are carefully brewed into the old soup. The raw materials of sheep and scorpions are only 5-6 from Inner Mongolia. The one-month-old lamb undergoes more than a dozen processes such as soaking, picking, roasting, stewing, and braising before it can be cooked.