Mutton is a common meat ingredient, which is sweet and warm, and has a good effect of warming and dispelling cold. So in the cold autumn and winter, many people like to buy some mutton and stew mutton soup, which can not only dispel the cold, but also supplement nutrition.

In fact, cold mutton soup is also suitable for hot summer. There is a traditional food festival in China called. Fuyang Festival? It lasts for one month from the first day of the first lunar month to the end of the last day. ? Eat sheep in dog days? It has a long history in Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, dating back to the Yao and Shun period.

▲ There are few mutton soup outside.

The annual Fuyang Festival is very lively, and many people come here to eat mutton and drink mutton soup, which has distinctive folk characteristics.

In the local area, there are? Fu Yang, a bowl of soup, without a doctor? Statement. ? Fu yang? It's mutton after crouching. Eating mutton in dog days is actually a kind of dietotherapy to clear away heat, sweat and detoxify, and drive away the toxic moisture in winter and spring.

In other areas, many people will buy stewed mutton to nourish their bodies after summer. Mutton is different from pork and has a strong smell. In order to remove the odor, most people will add a lot of spices and seasonings to the stewed mutton in an attempt to cover up the odor. The truth is true, but not all seasonings are suitable for stewed mutton, and some seasonings will be counterproductive.

▲ A mutton soup 18 yuan.

What is the most taboo when stewing mutton? Adding these two spices, the mutton soup will not smell after being put in, and the color of the mutton soup is black instead of bright white. The longer the stew, the stronger the taste. Next, I will share with you the skills of stewing mutton.

Two seasonings that can't be put in stewed mutton

The first kind, fennel

Anita, or star anise, chefs often say? Pigs don't pepper, sheep don't expect it? This is a very practical skill.

Pigs don't have peppers, that is, they can't put peppers when cooking pork, but they should be done in different ways. If it is braised pork, you can put it. If it is fried pork, you can put it. Because of the addition of pepper to the stew, the lean meat of pork will become dry wood, and some will not be chewed at all. Unexpectedly, the stewed mutton can't add more ingredients, and the color of mutton soup is black, which also masks the original flavor of mutton soup, but the smell is heavier.

Second, cooking wine.

Cooking wine is a common seasoning in family kitchens. Its function is to remove fishy smell and enhance freshness. Adding some cooking wine properly when cooking can effectively remove fishy smell and enhance umami flavor, but don't add cooking wine when stewing mutton.

After adding cooking wine, the mutton and cooking wine have a chemical reaction, which makes the mutton sour and smells strange.

▲ cooking wine

Skills of stewing mutton

First, whether it is mutton or beef, the blood in the meat must be cleaned before stewing. Washing with water is not enough. It must be soaked in clear water for at least 8 hours, changed every half hour, and soaked in the refrigerator in summer. Once the blood is not cleaned, the stewed mutton soup smells fishy and the soup turns dark.

Second, although star anise can't get into mutton, adding star anise can't make mutton stink. If you want to add spices, fennel and angelica dahurica are the best collocation with mutton, which can not only remove fishy smell, but also make mutton soup more delicious.

▲ Mutton soup

Third, when stewing mutton soup, add as much water as possible, but add enough at a time. Don't cover the pot when stewing, which is beneficial to the volatilization of fishy smell. After stewing, the mutton soup will taste delicious.

Fourth, stew mutton soup, be sure to put salt before cooking, or put salt when drinking, don't put salt too early.

▲ Mutton should be soaked.

The method of mutton soup

1, the mutton is cut into large pieces, soaked in bloodletting water, washed and drained.

2. Pour a proper amount of water into the wok, add onion, ginger slices, mutton and cold water, cook for 5 minutes, skim the blood foam, remove and rinse.

3. Add water to the soup pot, add boiled mutton, add onion, ginger slices, fennel and angelica dahurica, simmer for 2 hours after the fire is boiled, and stew the mutton soup.

4. When eating, cut the mutton into thin slices and put it in a bowl, pour in the right amount of mutton soup, add the right amount of salt and pepper, sprinkle with chopped green onion and coriander, and a bowl of delicious mutton soup will be ready.