Authentic Shaanbei Mutton Stew:

Main Ingredients: Mutton (front leg) 1500 grams 4 people

Supplementary Ingredients: 8 grams of salt, 3 red onions, 10 slices of ginger, 3 grams of peppercorns, 3 grams of dried chili peppers

Steps 1: cut the mutton chop into chunks and wash into an iron pot, add cool water, add the pre-prepared Add the pre-prepared green onion, ginger, peppercorns, dried chili peppers, and start stewing on high heat.

Step 2: When the water boils, skim off the surface of the floating foam, and cover the pot with a lid to medium heat.

Step 3: Add salt after thirty minutes and change to low heat and simmer.

Step 4: Stew until soft and rotten can collect juice out of the pot.

Shaanxi mutton stew notes:

Mutton cold water in the pot, hot water to cook out the meat is red, so remember to cold water in the pot, large fire boiling, skimming foam, and then put all the above seasonings and salt, salt should be put in early, if you put the late meat has no flavor, and then stew slowly over a small fire until the meat is soft.

Shaanxi cuisine historical background:

Hengshan is Yulin territory along the ancient Great Wall in the middle and the southern edge of the Mao Wusu Desert convergence of an ancient border city. It is a place where the loess farming culture, the grassland nomadic culture, the ancient Great Wall border culture, the religious and historical culture, the modern revolutionary culture as well as the far-reaching folk culture are all gathered. We traveled to the county to enjoy the rich natural and humanistic landscapes, and to taste the local cuisine featuring "mutton".

Mutton is an everyday delicacy for the people of Hengshan, and even "haggis", made from the entrails of sheep, is a famous northern Shaanxi delicacy. Leather coats and jackets made of sheepskin were the "treasure garments" of farmers, goat herders and footmen in the past, providing protection from the wind and rain during the day, and keeping warm at night as a bedding cover.

Sheep's wool is Hengshan people "sheep wealth" of the treasure, cashmere winter clothing has long been sold nationwide.

Sheep to Hengshan brought delicious, brought wealth. The three sheep are auspicious and lucky. Today's Hengshan people raised their eyebrows, the days are full of joy.