Mutton pad paper is one of the local specialty snacks in Yongchang County, Gansu Province in Hexi Corridor. Different from hand-grabbed mutton, it not only has the heroic hand-grabbed mutton, but also shows the exquisiteness of Hexi pasta to the fullest.
In Hexi area, because the staple food of sheep is salty grass in Beishan, mutton is tender and thin, rich in nutrition, and has no taste of food, so it is a delicious food. Jinchang lamb pad paper pays attention to materials, strict formula and excellent technology. During production, lambs aged 1-2 were slaughtered, and after unique cooking, flour rolls were added to the broth and processed at the same time. Its color is positive, its taste is pure, its fragrance is rich, it is fresh and delicious, and it is unforgettable.
However, mutton pad paper was not so beautiful when it was invented. On the contrary, there is a lot of helplessness. Perhaps you don't know, the initial production of mutton pad paper actually started from "killing lambs" every winter and spring. Why kill the lamb? It turns out that in the breeding season of sheep in winter and spring every year, a large number of lambs are born on the grassland.
Usually, these lambs can't be raised because the grassland area is limited after all. In order to better graze and protect the grassland, people should slaughter a certain number of lambs according to the requirements of grassland carrying capacity, so as to maintain the balance of grassland pasture.
This was originally a last resort. Those slaughtered lambs are generally not much bigger than rabbits, and their skins are stretched to make lamb skins in the future; And their large amount of meat, herders invented mutton pad paper stew, which became a famous local food. This is why it is best to use mutton for mutton mats.
Chop mutton into pieces, stir-fry with clear oil, add onion, garlic slices and dried Chili, add Jiang Mo, pepper, salt and other condiments, and add water to stew until it is 80% cooked. Roll the dough into pancakes with clear oil, roll it into a tube, cut it into inches, put it on the meat, and stew it until the dough is cooked and the meat is rotten. Mutton pad paper is famous for its fragrant noodles, tender meat, delicious taste and rich nutrition. Mutton and refined flour, both rigid and soft, have both the delicious mutton and the authentic chewing head of Hexi high-quality flour, which complement each other. It is the combination of red flowers and green leaves, talented people and beautiful women that creates a wonderful combination.
Different from hand-grabbed mutton, it not only has the heroic hand-grabbed mutton, but also shows the exquisiteness of Hexi pasta to the fullest. Compared with the pure nomadic lifestyle in Mongolia, there is a relatively developed farming civilization here, and cultural blending is also reflected in a folk food, which is also considered to be quite critical.