Mutton is a common type of meat in our daily life. However, due to its strong smell and complicated preparation requirements, it is seldom prepared in ordinary families and is more commonly seen in restaurants. Mutton has a relatively high nutritional value and can promote digestion. It is a great tonic in winter and is indeed a rare delicacy. However, because mutton has a strong smell, it is very important to pair it with certain dishes. Let us now find out what dishes go best with mutton. Cool vegetables: Paired with some cool vegetables, such as winter melon, loofah, rapeseed, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, lotus root, wild rice stem, bamboo shoots, and choy sum, it can have a cooling, detoxifying, and heat-removing effect. It can not only utilize the tonic effects of mutton, but also eliminate the dry and hot nature of mutton. If conditions permit, you can also add some lotus seed core, which has the effect of clearing the heart and relieving fire. Ingredients: 1. Radish. Lamb stewed with radish is a very popular dish in winter. Stewing the two together can fully bring out the cooling effect of radish, which can help eliminate stagnation and reduce phlegm and heat. 2. Ginger with skin. When stewing mutton, adding some ginger with skin can 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. When mutton and tofu are cooked together, the gypsum in the 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 getting a sore throat. Traditional Chinese medicine has a therapeutic method of "treating heat with cooling", which means that combining very hot food with cold food can have a better therapeutic effect. When cooking mutton, you can pair it with cool and sweet vegetables, which can have the effects of cooling, detoxifying and removing heat. Cool vegetables include winter melon, loofah, spinach, cabbage, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, and wild rice stems. 5. Ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, fennel and spices. Cook 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. Traditional Chinese medicine. Cooking mutton with certain Chinese medicinal materials can not only remove the mutton smell, but also achieve the maximum therapeutic effect. For example, you can simmer mutton with cooked aconite, licorice, angelica, salt, ginger, cinnamon, star anise and water in appropriate amounts over low heat. It has a certain effect on colds in the elderly, cold coughs, physical weakness and fear of cold, back pain and weak legs, frequent urination, etc. |
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