When it comes to mutton stew, I believe everyone is familiar with it. In fact, mutton stew is a kind of stew mainly made of mutton. It not only has beauty and beauty benefits, but also nourishes the spleen and stomach, enhances immunity and other effects. Especially when eaten in winter, it also has the effect of warming the stomach. It is a good nourishing product for post-operative patients and postpartum women who are weak. So what is the home-cooked way to stew mutton?

1. The home-cooked way to stew mutton

Yam and wolfberry stewed mutton:

Production materials: mutton (lean) 500 grams, 400 grams of iron yam, 20 grams of wolfberry, 20 grams of dates (dried), 20 grams of longan meat, 25 grams of vegetable oil, 10 grams of ginger, 6 grams of salt, and 10 grams of cooking wine.

Method:

1. Wash the mutton and cut into pieces;

2. Peel the yam, wash and cut into pieces;

3. Wash the wolfberry, longan meat, and red dates and set aside;

4. Add an appropriate amount of vegetable oil to the pot, heat it until it is 60 to 70% hot, add the mutton and ginger pieces and stir-fry;

5. Add cooking wine and appropriate amount of water to boil;

6. Move the mutton soup to a casserole, add yam, longan, wolfberry, etc. and cook until the mutton is cooked. Add salt to taste.

Stewed mutton

Ingredients: 500 grams of mutton, 25 grams of green onions, a little radish, 25 grams of coriander, appropriate amounts of MSG, salt, ginger, vinegar and pepper, 5 grams of sesame oil .

Method:

1. Chop the mutton into 2 or 5 cm square pieces, break them with a knife, shred part of the green onion and cut off part of it; cut the radish in half;

2. Rinse the mutton with boiling water to remove the blood stains, pour it into a pottery pot, add ginger, green onion segments, radish, and boiling water (as long as the mutton is submerged), and then place it on a small iron rack in the pot. Go up, add an appropriate amount of water to the pot (the lower part of the pot should be in the water), cover the pot tightly, and when the meat is tender, skim off the floating oil, remove the green onions, ginger, and radish, and add shredded green onions, coriander, and radish when eating. Vinegar, pepper, sesame oil, MSG, salt and other seasonings.

2. How to remove the mutton smell from stewed mutton

I believe you all know that many people who eat mutton are very disgusted with the mutton smell. So how to remove the smell of mutton stew? Stewing mutton will make the taste of the mutton more delicate, as if it melts in your mouth. But before making mutton stew, you need to learn how to remove the mutton smell.

Commonly used method to remove the odor - when stewing mutton, add: carrots, ginger, onions, cooking wine

Secondly, you can add Sichuan peppercorns. If there is one pound of mutton, add about 10 peppercorns when stewing the mutton. After stewing, the mutton smell will be greatly reduced and the taste will be more fragrant.

In addition, adding white radish and garlic can also remove the smell of mutton stew, keep the taste of the mutton delicious, and minimize the loss of nutrients.

If you choose to roast or boil mutton, you can prepare a pot of boiling water, pour some rice vinegar or curry powder, add the mutton and cook until the pot boils, then the mutton smell can be removed. The next step is to cook the mutton stew.

3. Nutritional effects of mutton stew

Mutton stew is a home-cooked stew with fat mutton as the main ingredient. It can lower blood sugar and fat, beautify the skin, and enhance resistance. The methods are diverse and the nutritional value is rich.

Sweet in taste and hot in nature, it enters the spleen, stomach, kidney, and heart meridians; it warms and nourishes the spleen and stomach, and is used to treat nausea, body weight, and chills caused by deficiency and coldness of the spleen and stomach; it warms and nourishes the liver and kidneys. It is used to treat soreness, weakness, coldness and pain in the waist and knees, impotence and other symptoms caused by kidney yang deficiency; it can nourish blood and warm menstruation, and is used for cold abdominal pain caused by postpartum blood deficiency and cold menstruation. Ancient Chinese medicine believes that mutton is a good product for supporting yang, replenishing essence and blood, treating lung deficiency, and relieving strain. It is an excellent warming and strengthening agent.

Suitable crowd:

The general population can eat it.

1. Suitable for people with weak body and cold stomach;

2. People with fever, toothache, mouth and tongue sores, coughing up yellow phlegm and other symptoms of internal heat should not eat it; liver disease, high blood pressure, It should not be consumed during acute enteritis or other infectious diseases and fever.

Foods that are incompatible with each other: Bamboo shoots are incompatible with each other: eating them together can cause poisoning; avoid eating field snails: eating them together will cause food accumulation and causing bloating; avoid watermelons: eating them together will damage your vitality. Hepatitis patients should avoid eating mutton.

4. Taboos of mutton stew

1. Avoid eating it with tea: tea is the "nemesis" of mutton. This is because mutton is rich in protein, and tea contains more tannic acid. Drinking tea when eating mutton will produce tannic acid protein, which will weaken intestinal peristalsis and reduce stool moisture, thus inducing constipation.

2. It is not advisable to eat it with vinegar: sour vinegar has an astringent effect and is not conducive to the growth of yang energy in the body. Eating it with mutton will greatly reduce its warming and tonic effect.

3. Avoid eating with watermelon: Eating watermelon after eating mutton can easily "damage your vitality". This is because mutton is sweet and hot in nature, while watermelon is cold in nature and is a cold product. After eating, it not only greatly reduces the warming effect of mutton, but also hinders the spleen and stomach.

4. People with certain symptoms should not eat mutton: those who often have erosions of the mouth and tongue, red eyes, bitter mouth, irritability, dry and sore throat, swollen and painful gums, or those who have diarrhea, or those who take Chinese medicine containing pinellia, ternata, etc. People with calamus should not eat mutton.

5. It is not suitable to eat with pumpkin: There are records in ancient Chinese medicine books that mutton should not be eaten with pumpkin. This is mainly because mutton and pumpkin are both warm foods. If they are eaten together, they will easily get burned. For the same reason, when cooking mutton, you should also use less hot and spicy condiments such as chili, pepper, ginger, cloves, and fennel.

6. It is not advisable to drink tea immediately after eating mutton: Because mutton is rich in protein, and tea contains more tannic acid, drinking tea immediately after eating mutton will produce a kind of tannic acid. Protein substances can easily cause constipation.