roasted mutton

By MarcelinaAuer

roasted mutton
In my childhood memories, there is a halal delicacy in Beijing,"Roasted Mutton", which tastes wonderfully delicious! The soup of roasted mutton is also very expensive. When you buy two liang of roasted mutton and half a catty of old soup, when you go home, you make a bowl of hand-rolled noodles yourself and pour the soup and chopped meat on the surface. It is really delicious in the world. Eat it once and you will never forget it! From time to time, it will remind you of the beautiful taste. The mellow old soup and fragrant roast mutton, and the aroma of your mouth will suddenly stimulate your taste nerves again. The desire to eat makes you feel like you can't stop! I sighed that since I went abroad, I have no chance to enjoy the taste of childhood twenty years ago!
"Roasted mutton" and served with sesame sesame cakes from old Beijing, it will be even more fragrant! Break the freshly baked yellow and crispy hot sesame seed cake, put a few slices of roasted mutton inside, and bite it in one bite. Wow, it's so fragrant. It's not an exaggeration to say that it's a god!
In the old Muslim shop 100 meters away from my home, when you were eating fragrant sesame cakes with mutton, you could always see some elderly people taking out two or two bottles of small Erguotou from their pockets, taking a bite of sesame cakes with meat, and taking a bite of Erguotou, showing a satisfied look on their faces. They held sesame cakes and mutton in their hands and ate happily, and bystanders would involuntarily swallow their saliva. If you listen carefully, they will grunt in their throats and make a slight noise. At this time, the people in line will always shout impatiently,"Faster the one in front, and give me two too." Hehe, how greedy! This is my childhood memory!
The "roasted mutton" in the capital has never the slightest smell of mutton. There is only one word "fragrant"! Its practice is very particular. Every day, first mix part of the old soup and new soup, then use the low-fire sauce for two to three hours, then soak the sauce mutton in the soup for five to six hours, and then remove and drain the soup. Heat and fry, the purpose is to lock the soup and increase the aroma of the meat. When eating, you can slice it with a knife. You can eat it with sesame cakes or pancakes, or you can eat it with meat and soup mixed noodles.
The blending of soup is the store's secret. In fact, the ingredients used are not very precious, but the mixture ratio and the cooking time of the sauce will taste good. To blend the miso soup, you must use yellow sauce water from old Beijing, plus several spices such as cinnamon, star anise, amomum villosum, tsaoko, fennel, and tangerine peel. Old soup is a soup that has been sauced more than twice. It is called old soup. One quarter of the old soup must be mixed into the new soup every day.
In the past, when saucing meat, green onions were generally not put in it. Green onions will sour the soup, making it difficult for the old soup to be preserved for a long time. Therefore, only ginger and spices should be put in the soup. The key is to control the proportion of various spices well, the amount should not be too large, and the taste of the soup should be fragrant and not too strong. Only then can the stewed soup be delicious and the old soup will be more mellow! For example, Yueshengzhai, a time-honored brand, and several time-honored shops that specialize in roast mutton do this.
If you cook roast mutton at home, there is no need. To add some green onions to add flavor, you can also add some green onions. There is a refrigerator at home, so you can use clean ones.

Recipe Recommendations

  • flour 250 grams
  • onion 20g

Steps for roasted mutton

  • Make  step 0
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    Roast mutton raw materials: sheep kidney meat, yellow wine, old Beijing yellow sauce, soy sauce, onion, ginger, pepper, cinnamon, star anise, fragrant leaves, tsaoko, amomum villosum, nutmeg, angelica dahurica, fennel seed, tangerine peel, crystal sugar, salt, old soup, clear water
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    Ingredients for sesame seeds: flour, white sesame seeds, sesame paste, soda, dry yeast, warm water, pepper, cumin, sesame oil, peanut oil, salt. Skin dipping; soy sauce, flour, water.
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    Put 40 grams of yellow sauce in a bowl.
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    Pour in 2000ml of water and stir well.
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    Leave the stirred miso soup to stand for 3-4 hours until it settles. After the miso soup settles, only decanting the clear sauce water on it and pouring it into the soup pot. Discard the remaining sauce residue and sediment.
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    Add appropriate amount of old soup into the soup pot, then add rock sugar and spices.
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    Put the chopped green onion and old ginger slices into the soup pot and boil.
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    After the soup is boiled, pour in a proper amount of Shaoxing rice wine, sprinkle with a proper amount of salt, and then add a little soy sauce to taste.
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    Add water to another pot and add mutton to boil.
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    After the water boils, skim off the foam and cook for 5 minutes, then remove the mutton.
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    Put the boiled mutton into the boiling soup pot, switch to the sauce over low heat for two hours, then turn off the heat, and soak the cooked mutton in the soup pot for 5-6 hours.
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    Remove and drain the miso soup, heat it in another pot, add cooking oil and cook until it is 60 to 70%, add in the mutton sauce and fry it.
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    Fry the mutton until the surface of the mutton dries slightly before removing it.
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    After fishing out the mutton, use a thin knife to slice it into a plate and serve it on the table.
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    Make sesame cakes; first bake the pepper and cumin in a pan and let cool.
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    Use a crusher to beat it into powder, or roll it with a rolling pin.
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    First stir the sesame paste with 50% sesame oil and peanut oil, then pour in the cooked pepper and fennel noodles, and then sprinkle with appropriate amount of salt and mix well.
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    Add soda and dry yeast to the flour.
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    Use warm water to synthesize soft dough.
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    After combining, simmer the dough for 10 minutes.
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    After boiling, stretch it with your hands to form a thin slice, and then evenly spread the seasoned sesame paste with your hands.
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    Then roll up the dough sheet, pull it into eight evenly distributed dough sheets, gather the ends of the dough sheets with your hands, wrap them tightly, and then place them on the chopping board with the joint facing downwards and the smooth surface facing upwards.
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    Press the sesame cake dough wrapped with sauce one by one, apply a thin layer of thin batter made of flour, soy sauce and water on the skin with a brush, and then pat on sesame seeds.
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    Place the sesame seeds face down in a baking pan and bake for 10 seconds, then turn over and bake for another 10 seconds.
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    Wait until the sesame cakes are a little firm before putting them into the baking sheet.
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    Bake at 220-230 degrees for 10 minutes.
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    Serve it with roasted mutton. When eating, break open the hot sesame seed cake and add the roasted mutton to enjoy.
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    Beijing-style sesame seed cake, with old Beijing roast mutton sandwiched in it, tastes extremely delicious and is unforgettable.
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    Characteristics of roast mutton: brown-red skin, soft meat, rich aroma, soft taste, strange aftertaste, and very delicious.
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    Characteristics of sesame cakes: brownish color, fragrant smell, crispy outer skin, soft inner skin, rich sauce aroma, attractive pepper aroma, hot taste, fragrant mouth.
  • roasted mutton Make Tips

    Warm tips: 1. Make sure to choose fresh mutton. The meat in the waist area is the best. It is okay to have no legs of mutton. 2. It is better to settle the mixed miso soup for a long time. Both thin yellow sauce and dry yellow sauce can be used. After settling, only choose the thorough sauce water above, and do not use any sediment. Soy sauce only serves to enhance the flavor, and must not put too much. 3. When making 500- 1,000 grams of mutton in sauce, the spices should not be too much. Except for star anise, cinnamon, prickly ash, and fragrant leaves, 1 gram of each of the other is enough. If the medicinal aroma is too strong, it will not be beautiful. 4. After stewing, it is best to soak the mutton for more than 4 hours, so that the taste inside and outside will be even, the flavor will be profound, and it will taste more delicious. 5. When frying mutton, the oil temperature should be higher. Drain the soup before the meat is put into the pot to prevent explosion and splash. It is best to use oil-absorbing paper to dry the soup on the surface. You don't need to use too much oil at home. You can just turn it back and forth with bamboo chopsticks when frying. Fry it until it is straight and slightly discolored. The surface color is even and you can fish it out. Drain the oil and dry it for a while before slicing. Be sure to use a thin knife with a sharp edge. Good, otherwise it will be fragile. Let it cool and cut it is not easy to break, but it will be more delicious when eaten hot. 6. Add cooked pepper and cumin powder to the sesame seed cake. It will taste more fragrant. You can also add it at home, but the aroma will be much different. 7. When baking with a baking pan, since the surface of the sesame cake is soft, it only serves the purpose of shaping it slightly, and then it can be baked. The baking temperature should not be too low, otherwise the sesame cakes will dry out and taste bad! High temperatures can immediately lock in moisture, making the outside charred and the inside tender.