Northwest cuisine
MarcelinaAuer
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! <br />"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! <br />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! <br />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. <br />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. <br />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. <br />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.
