When many people hear about Ningxia cuisine, the first reaction in their minds is to "grab the lamb by hand", or "roast the whole lamb". Few people will mention this "bowl of steamed lamb"!
Speaking of lamb, in fact, it is a kind of sensational meat, neither as blunt and shallow as pork, flooded, nor as mellow and monotonous as beef, lamb is more tender than them, and the taste is soft and aggressive, you will remember it the last time you eat it, which is a tongue that has numbed the sense of taste, eating lamb once is a pleasant out of the gui.
Everyone on earth knows that the lamb in Ningxia is delicious! When I arrived in Ningxia, it was as if I had never eaten mutton as if I had never been to Ningxia. The dishes made with lamb here are dazzling and are loved by the people. Unlike in the south, lamb except for stew soup is a dry pot, with little change.
In Yinchuan, the famous ones are, of course, "hand-grabbed lamb" and "roasted whole lamb". People who come to visit want to kiss Fangze, want to eat a full meal and then fast! In fact, locals rarely eat, the common on the table is sauerkraut noodles fried lamb, barbecue shop "roast lamb leg", kebabs, noodles made of lamb in the noodle restaurant, such as cheek noodles, braised noodles and so on.
Generally speaking, you can only see the "bowl of steamed lamb" when eating the table! Because in the past, Ningxia was popular for the feast of "nine bowls and thirteen flowers". "Bowl steamed lamb" is a must-have dish!
Ningxia lamb meat is tender and delicious, without a strong taste. The approach doesn't have to be too complicated. Lamb meat is best selected from the chest fork, upper spine, chopped into rectangular strips, washed with cool water, placed in a bowl, put ginger, green onion, garlic; Add a few more raw peppercorns and steam for about 30 minutes.
This dish is most suitable for the elderly, the taste is soft and delicious, and there is a strong taste of lamb in the light. However, for Wei Ji, I don't like it very much, Wei Ji has eaten several times, I don't know if it is the master's craftsmanship problem or will not eat, I really do not like to eat like this. Wei Ji still likes to eat lamb stew!
In fact, this dish has to be eaten in a national restaurant to have a feeling. Especially to Guyuan, Tongxin, Haiyuan area, where steamed lamb meat is authentic and delicious!
Don't look at the steamed lamb is simple, in fact, not only the production skills, but also a certain level of taste to capture the stomach and heart of the gluttonous. Otherwise, how can a bowl of steamed lamb be served at a feast? And it has been passed down for a long time.
The Method of Steaming Sheep is mentioned in the Qi Min Zhi Shu. It has been recorded in the "Diet Chapter", which was very popular in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the opening of the field and the sheep in the north went south to Beijing (Kaifeng) and became the meal of the dignitaries! Ordinary people can't eat, people only eat pork!
In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was not so easy to eat whole lamb, but wanted to maintain royal decency, jiangnan chefs refined it, and gradually evolved into a bowl "steamed sheep" ("steamed sheep" (that is, bowl steamed sheep) or "rotten steamed large pieces"), and spread!
The big foodie Su Dongpo said in "Old Food": "The dense frying of rotten cherry beads, the steamed lamb of the boiled cheese, the clams are half-cooked with wine, crabs are slightly raw and bad, and the heavenly beauty of the cover is the beauty of the gathering, in order to nourish my old food." One of the "steamed lambs with shimizu" is almond cake. Eating almond cake, I think of steamed lamb. Illustrate Su Dongpo's amazing insight and associative ability. Just kidding, the name of the world's first foodie is not covered!
Comparing almond cake with steamed lamb, you can imagine the delicate taste of steamed lamb. Although he said that he was eating pork, he still had a place for steamed lamb in his heart! This song "Old Food" can also be regarded as a small summary of his career of eating! Because at that time, he was being degraded again and again to Hainan.
Hainan is now a tourist attraction that everyone yearns for, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is a truly barbaric land, when everyone called Hainan "not inhabited by people", Su Dongpo had already written a will before leaving, leaving most of his family in Huizhou, and taking his younger son Su Guo to the road of the vast debasement again. When "dying old and deserted, there is no hope of resurrection", he can also write "Old Food Endowment", indicating that Su Dongpo's heart is not about himself, but about food!
Yang Wanli, one of the four great masters of the Southern Song Dynasty, said in the sentence "Taiguan steamed sheep embossed cake", which all show that the taste of steamed sheep is better than the taste of pastries. Wei Ji felt that he was suspected of imitating Su Dongpo!
After the Mongol Yuan destroyed the Song Dynasty, they naturally took these mutton delicacies for themselves and carried them forward, because they regarded themselves as experts when eating mutton. More importantly, there is no shortage of sheep! Therefore, in the national gathering place, this dish is delicious and effortless, just pay attention to the heat and time of the dish is popular!
Come to Yinchuan, Ningxia, if you eat a bowl of steamed lamb and do not eat the taste of the big foodie Su Dongpo's "steamed lamb of huangxiang cheese" and Yang Wanli's "steamed sheep embossed flower cake", then the steamed lamb in this restaurant is not in place.
Good luck and a delicious "bowl of steamed lamb".
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