What are the spices for cooking lamb?

Mutton is a common meat in our daily life. Many people like to eat mutton, but they are resisted by its fishy and smelly taste. When cooking mutton, most people are worried that the flavor of the mutton will affect the taste. In fact, this problem can be solved. As long as you pay attention to the combination of spices, you can also remove the fishy smell from mutton. So what are the specific recipes for cooking lamb spices?

1. Bay leaves and fennel

Bay leaves and fennel are often used in stewing pork, beef and mutton. They have the effect of removing fishy smell and enhancing fragrance, but they do not have medicinal smell and will not affect the original taste of mutton soup. They are also relatively cheap. Appropriately increasing the dosage of the two can reduce the cost of ingredients. Fennel is pungent and warm, regulates qi and harmonizes the stomach, dispels cold and relieves pain. It plays the role of suppressing fishy smell and enhancing flavor in Sichuan-style cold braised dishes. It also has good antiseptic effect. Its smell is spicy, mild, camphor-sour, slightly sweet, slightly bitter and has a burning taste. It has a strong aroma and has the effect of removing fishy smell, increasing fragrance and relieving greasiness.

2. Angelica dahurica

Lamb likes angelica dahurica, so when choosing, you must select those with relatively complete shapes; because the fragrance of angelica dahurica will gradually dissipate and disappear, so try to avoid choosing those that have been stored for too long.

3. Tangerine peel

Tangerine peel plays a great "neutralizing" role in the combination of spices, but it cannot be used too much, otherwise it will "eat up the flavors" (i.e. cover up the flavors of other spices), resulting in half the result with twice the effort.

4. Others

Lamb is a tender meat, and coriander, ginger, and angelica can all be used. Of course, spicy and sweet foods can also be used, but they will not remove the fishy smell. The mutton smell comes from ethyl caprylic acid, methyl caprylic acid, etc. This smell will not be covered up by the strong sweet taste of the spicy and sweet series. Therefore, we need to use lemon-based ingredients to remove the fishy smell, such as cumin, basil, and rosemary.