People who come to Xinjiang will be infected by the generosity of Xinjiang people. Everything in Xinjiang is so bold, even the hand-grabbed meat in Xinjiang can make you feel such a breath. Eating meat and drinking in a big bowl is not simply a few words to describe! When you go deep into it, accompanied by wine and dance, that kind of bold breath will go deep into your essence, just like the Uighurs described in martial arts novels, which is worth feeling!
The history of grabbing meat can be traced back to the beginning of Xinjiang nationality. Many ethnic groups in Xinjiang, such as Uighurs, Mongolians, Kazakhs, Kirgiz, Tajiks and so on, love to grab meat with their hands. In history, the main food of nomadic people was mutton and beef, and the meat was stewed in a large pot. Everyone around the pot of mutton into a big circle, big mouth chewing mutton, drinking broth. Its delicious and nutritional value is excellent!
The process of cooking mutton by hand is not difficult. Chop the mutton into large pieces first, remove the froth when cooking in the pot, and then chop the onion into strips. After the mutton is boiled for 40 minutes, add carrots and tea magu, and simmer slowly. After cooking, put the meat, carrots and tea magu on a plate, put onion slices and sprinkle with a little salt water, and serve.
Xinjiang people should have wine and appetizers every time they eat meat. The appetizer for eating meat is tiger dishes, not onions, tomatoes and green peppers. Green pepper and onion are cut into thin strips, and tomatoes are cut into large pieces and mixed together. Because eating meat is very greasy, tiger dishes can regulate greasy meat, so you can rest assured to eat meat.
However, it is also necessary to pay attention to eating hand-grabbed meat.
There are some rules for eating hand-grabbed meat in Xinjiang. Generally, the owner takes a knife first, cuts off the best piece of meat from the sheep and gives it to the most distinguished guests. Secondly, the owner distributes sheep's heads. For example, for people who often show their faces, the owner will cut the sheep's face to him and say, "We must give everyone a long face in the future." Sheep ears will be given to those children to educate them to be obedient in the future.
Forehead is an important position, of course, for the elderly or respected people. And so on until the sheep's head is distributed. Come down, open your belly and taste the delicious mutton.
When eating hand-grabbed meat, don't just pick lean meat, not because it's impolite, but because lean meat is not as delicious as fat meat. The mutton in Xinjiang has no smell, and the fat melts in the mouth, which is very delicious. For mutton with bad smell, you can put some orange peels in cook the meat to reduce the bad smell, and the effect is very good.