Stewed mutton with Codonopsis pilosula

1

. Cut the mutton into walnut pieces and wash it with clean water.

2

Pour the remaining boiled water into a sand jar, pour clear water (1500 ml), add ginger slices, spring onion segments, refined salt, cooking wine, codonopsis pilosula, and aniseed into the jar and bring to a boil. Seal the mouth of the jar tightly, move to light heat for 4 hours, until the meat is thick and rotten.

3

Open the seal, add lotus sprouts and simmer thoroughly. Remove the onions, ginger, and aniseed and serve.

4

Serve it together with the sand jar when serving. When eating this dish in winter, you should place a charcoal stove under the sand jar as above to keep the dish boiling and boiling hot.

Production Tips: This dish is made from fat sheep waist meat and is paired with Shanxi specialty Shangdang Codonopsis pilosula. It is rich in nutrients and has certain therapeutic functions. Simmer it in a sand jar and it has a strong taste. The meat of the sheep's waist nest is old and has many connective and fibrous tissue. Before sealing the jar and simmering, enough soup water should be added to adjust the taste. No soup or seasoning should be added during simmering, so as to maintain the original flavor and highlight the characteristics of simmering vegetables. Nutritional analysis: 1. Mutton is warm in nature. Eating mutton often in winter can not only increase human body calories and resist cold, but also increase digestive enzymes, protect the stomach wall, repair gastric mucosa, help digestion of the spleen and stomach, and play an anti-aging role;2. Mutton is nutritious and is very beneficial to pulmonary tuberculosis, tracheitis, asthma, anemia, postpartum deficiency of both qi and blood, cold pain in the abdomen, body deficiency and fear of cold, malnutrition, soreness of waist and knees, impotence and premature ejaculation, and all deficiency cold diseases; It has medium effects in tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, replenishing deficiency and warming. It is suitable for men to consume frequently.