What is the best food to eat with mutton? How to choose mutton

Mutton is rich in protein, and its content is higher than that of pork and beef. Compared with pork and beef, mutton contains more calcium, iron and vitamin C. Mutton has a unique smell, mainly because the fat contains carbolic acid. After removing the fat, mutton will no longer have a smell. The reason why many friends don't like to eat mutton is mainly because they can't smell the smell of mutton, but friends who like to eat mutton like to eat it very much. So today we will see what is the best to eat with mutton and how to choose good mutton.

Contents of this article

1. What is the best food to eat with mutton?

2. How to choose mutton

3. Tips for eating mutton

What is the best food to eat with mutton?

1. Radish: Lamb stewed with radish is a very popular dish in winter. Stewing the two together can fully bring out the cool effect of radish, which can help eliminate stagnation and reduce phlegm and heat.

2. Ginger with skin: When stewing mutton, add some ginger with skin. It will not only make the taste more delicious, but also remove the mutton smell, and it can also disperse fire, remove heat, and dispel wind.

3. Tofu: Cook mutton and tofu together. The gypsum in tofu can clear away heat and fire, relieve restlessness and quench thirst. Tofu is also rich in various trace elements.

4. Cool vegetables: Lamb is a nourishing food, and eating it often can easily cause internal heat. Traditional Chinese medicine has a dietary therapy method of "cold heat to treat heat", which means that hot food combined with cold food can achieve better therapeutic effects. When cooking lamb, you can pair it with cool and sweet vegetables, which can play a role in cooling, detoxifying, and removing internal heat: cool vegetables include winter melon, loofah, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, wild rice stem, etc.

5. Ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, fennel and seasonings: Cook the mutton with these seasonings, cut into slices and eat after it is cooked. It can relieve indigestion caused by spleen and kidney deficiency, abdominal pain, and cold pain in the waist and knees.

6. Chinese medicine: Cooking mutton with some Chinese medicinal materials can not only remove the mutton smell, but also achieve the greatest therapeutic effect. For example, simmering mutton with cooked aconite, licorice, angelica, salt, ginger, cinnamon, star anise and water in appropriate amounts over low heat can have a certain effect on colds, cold coughs, physical weakness, backaches, weak legs, and frequent urination in the elderly.

How to choose mutton

There are some particularities when selecting mutton, and it should be identified based on its color, elasticity, viscosity and smell.

Fresh mutton: The meat is bright red and uniform, shiny, fine, tight and elastic, slightly dry on the outside, not sticky, with a fresh smell and no other peculiar smell.

Stale mutton: The meat is dark in color, sticky on the outside, loose and inelastic, and has a slight ammonia or sour smell.

Spoiled mutton: The meat is dark in color, dull and sticky on the surface, contains mucus, the fat is yellow-green, and has a strange smell or even a foul odor.

Old mutton: The meat is darker red in color, slightly coarse in texture, and difficult to cook. Fresh old mutton has a normal smell.

Lamb: The meat is light red in color, firm, fine and elastic.

Tips for eating mutton

1. Many people like to eat hot pot mutton. You cannot not cook it thoroughly just to keep the meat fresh and tender. You must choose qualified mutton and cook it thoroughly.

2. Do not add vinegar to pumpkin, because lamb is hot and vinegar is sweet and warm, cooking the two together can easily cause fire and blood. Especially for people with heart problems or blood diseases, pumpkin is also a warm food, eating them together can easily cause "burning".

3. Don’t drink tea when eating mutton, as tea is the “nemesis” of mutton. This is because mutton is rich in protein, while tea contains more tannic acid. Drinking tea while eating mutton will produce tannic acid protein, which will weaken the peristalsis of the intestines, reduce the water content of the stool, and cause constipation.

4. Do not eat it with bamboo shoots and red beans, as this will cause abdominal pain and even poisoning in severe cases.

5. When eating mutton, you should also eat more fruits and vegetables. Vegetables contain a lot of vitamins and are cool in nature. They can not only eliminate greasiness and supplement vitamins, but also have the effect of cooling and removing internal heat. However, vegetables should not be overcooked, otherwise the effect will be lost. You can also eat some fruits after meals, which also have the main function of reducing internal heat.