Ingredients required:

Ingredients: 500 grams of mutton. 5 grams of pepper, 5 grams of cinnamon, 5 grams of tangerine peel, 50 grams of coriander, 5 grams of grass fruit, 10 grams of galangal, 5 grams of angelica, 10 grams of green onions, 15 grams of refined salt, 25 grams of red oil, 15 grams of pepper water, 5 clove noodles grams, 5 grams of cinnamon noodles, 5 grams of soy sauce, and 25 grams of sesame oil.

How to make water basin mutton

Ingredients: 750 grams of mutton belly.

Ingredients: coriander.

Seasoning: salt, chicken essence, cooking wine, onions, ginger, pepper, cooking oil.

Method: 1. Wash the mutton belly and cut into thick shreds; 2. Put the pot on fire and pour in the base oil. When the oil is hot, add the ginger slices and stir-fry until the aroma is released. Then pour in boiling water and add Season with salt, chicken essence, cooking wine, and pepper. After the water is boiled, put in the mutton and cook. Sprinkle with shredded green onions and coriander leaves and serve. [2]

How to make mutton soup

Preparation method:

Wash the mutton and cut it into pieces 10 cm long, 3.3 cm wide and 0.7 cm thick. Break the bones and lay them on the bottom of the pot, put the mutton on top, add water until the meat is covered, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the blood foam, and decant the soup.

Add additional water, bring to a boil over high heat, and skim off the foam. Add an appropriate amount of water, boil and then skim off the scum. Then add the mutton oil and boil for a while, then skim off the scum again.

Wrap the pepper, cinnamon, tangerine peel, grass fruit, galangal, white mango, etc. with gauze to form a spice bag, put them into the pot with the ginger slices, green onion segments, and refined salt, and continue to cook over high heat. When the mutton is eight times cooked, add red oil. Boil the pepper water for about two hours.

At this time, the soup pot should always be kept boiling. Take out the cooked mutton, cut the top into thin slices, put it into a bowl, sprinkle with minced coriander to make the broth. You can put the chili oil and scallions on a sauce plate, put the lotus leaf cake on a large plate, and serve it together with the mutton soup.

Put a little chili oil when eating, add green onions to the lotus leaf cake, and eat it with mutton soup.

Preparation Tips

Keep the water in the pot slightly open when boiling, and keep the broth bubbling when stewing.

Dish Features Editor: Water Basin Mutton

When Shaanxi people eat water basin mutton, they often eat it with sesame cakes, accompanied by fresh garlic, spicy sauce or sugared garlic. You can soak the steamed buns in it. You can eat and drink a bowl of soup, or you can eat a mouthful of steamed buns and a sip of soup. The most authentic water basin mutton in Dali County, Shaanxi Province is eaten with a kind of Crescent Shaobing. A bowl of mutton is paired with two Shaobings, which makes the fat and lean meat better. The alternating mutton slices are sandwiched in a freshly baked crescent moon cake, and the other cake is soaked in the mutton soup.

The mutton in water basin is called mutton steamed bun in Dali, Pucheng, Chengxian and other state capitals. The mutton steamed bun in Xi'an is called boiled steamed bun. The characteristics of Dali's "Water Basin Mutton" are "the soup is fragrant, the meat is crispy, and the cake is browned."

The biscuits served with it are basically round or crescent-shaped. They are all made from winter wheat flour produced in the Weibei Plain. Due to the long growth period, the flour is white and strong, and the biscuits produced are crispy and delicious!