How to freeze lamb rolls

In winter, people like to eat hot pot food very much, especially mutton hot pot, because mutton can bring a little warmth to people's bodies. If you go out to eat mutton hotpot, many people will worry about whether the mutton is pure. In order to eat pure mutton, people would rather buy mutton and eat it in hotpot at home. How to freeze lamb rolls at home? Here I will tell you how to cut lamb into lamb rolls.

1. How to cut mutton into mutton rolls

Key points: Frozen lamb, sharp knife edge, fast and thin.

1. Cut it yourself

If you cut it yourself. Choose the meat first. It is advisable to choose sheep spine.

A slightly fatty part or leg of lamb. Then wash the mutton with water. Use a knife to cut the mutton into strips. The cross-sectional area of ​​the strips is the size of the mutton rolls you want. It depends on yourself, and it is best to have square strips. Then wrap the lamb tightly with plastic wrap, put it in the freezer of the refrigerator, and freeze it for 1 hour (-18 degrees). Wait until the meat is completely frozen and the surface is frozen solid before cutting.

Take it out and tear off the plastic wrap. When cutting, the knife must have a sharp blade so that the slices can be cut thinly. It has to be fast and thin so that it can be rolled up. Cut it into slices to make lamb rolls. In addition, do not press the meat with your palm when holding the meat. The warmth from your palm will soften the frozen meat. Just press the meat with two or three fingers. In short, it is theoretically feasible.

2. Use machine cutting

But this is a skilled job, and it won’t work without experience. In actual practice, it is generally difficult to cut the rolls by hand and make them look good. You might as well freeze the mutton you bought first, and then take the frozen mutton to a store selling hot pot ingredients, seafood mutton rolls and other products. There usually are mutton roll cutting machines there, and you just need to pay them a processing fee. If you need to use it frequently, you can also buy a small slicer for your home if conditions permit.

Of course, this machine can not only cut lamb rolls, but also slices and shreds. However, it is difficult for most people to make mutton rolls, and most people use machines to make it. The rolling machine is suitable for large hot pot restaurants and large and medium-sized beef and mutton wholesalers.

2. Why does the lamb roll break when you cut it yourself?

It depends on whether you are cutting frozen meat or fresh meat? If you use a special slicer, is the slicer used to cut frozen meat or fresh meat? Different slicers are for different types of meat and are not universal, so the meat you cut will be broken into pieces. Furthermore, factors need to be considered, such as whether the meat is stuck when cutting, whether the slicing area is clean and smooth, and whether you know how to use a slicer.