Lamb stew is not tender

Young people nowadays can basically count the number of times they have been to the vegetable market on one hand, so they don’t know much about any kind of food, and don’t know which one tastes good and which one is easy to stew. Some people find that the mutton they buy is not tender. This may be a problem with the mutton, or it may be caused by incorrect cooking methods. What should you do if the mutton is not tender? Here are some specific solutions to the problem of mutton not being tender.

1. What to do if the mutton is not cooked well

1. If you are not in a hurry, just put the pressure cooker on for a few more minutes. Generally it's 12-15 points, so bet on 20-25 points, it will always be bad.

2. If the meat you bought is tough and hard to cook, you don’t need to rush to cook it. Before stewing the meat, you may want to apply a layer of mustard on the surface of the lamb and then freeze it. Wash off the mustard the next day and stew the lamb in a pot. This can greatly shorten the cooking time and make the lamb tender and delicious.

3. It is most scientific to use cold water to cook mutton. Using hot water will cause the protein in the meat to denature and harden instantly, and the mutton will become very unpalatable. Boil the mutton in cold water. During the cooking process, the ice in the meat will sublime into water vapor, so the meat will be very soft and fragrant. Moreover, when the mutton is put into boiling water, the surface of the meat will be cooked instantly and the blood inside will be locked. Putting it in cold water can cook out the flavor inside.

4. After boiling over high heat, remove the lid and simmer for 20 minutes to remove the odor. Then cover the pot and use a low heat to keep the floating oil on the surface of the soup warm, which will help the food become more tender.

5. When cooking mutton, add salt last and add enough water at once. If you find that there is less water, add boiling water. Don’t add salt too early, otherwise it will not be fresh and will not be easy to soften.

6. When stewing lamb, you can choose to add some wine or vinegar. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of wine or 1 to 2 tablespoons of vinegar to 1 kilogram of mutton and stew it to make the meat soft and tender.

7. When stewing mutton, add a pinch of tea leaves (wrapped in a gauze bag) and cook together. The mutton will be cooked quickly and the taste of the mutton will not change at all. If you don’t have tea leaves at home, you can use hawthorn instead. Both tea leaves and hawthorn can make mutton tender and remove the fishy smell.

8. After the water in the pot boils, be sure to turn to low heat and simmer slowly. Add dried hawthorn slices at the same time, which will speed up the softening process.