Shanxian mutton soup uses local high-quality goats as raw materials, with reasonable mix of fresh meat, skeleton and seasoning, and emulsified into oil at high temperature. Its main feature is that the soup is thick but not oily, delicious, but not greasy.
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Shan county in Shandong province is located at the junction of eight counties in Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui provinces, with the old Yellow River in the south and Dasha River running through the whole territory in the north. With abundant aquatic plants, shady trees, abundant sunshine and humid climate, it is a natural high-quality pasture and is known as the "hometown of green goats in China". The mutton in Shan County is tender, smooth and delicious, with little fishy smell. Its color is as white as milk, water and oil blend, pure texture, delicious and refreshing, appetizing and invigorating the spleen. Eating in the mouth is delicious, fragrant but not greasy, rotten but not paste.
Shanxian mutton soup is very particular about cooking. The method is as follows: firstly, add 50 liters of water into the pot. When the pot boils, add 30 kg of fresh meat, 2 pairs of mutton offal and skeleton, boil with strong fire (firewood is better), remove the bleeding foam and dirty air with a bamboo spoon, add 10 kg of cold water, remove the blood foam after the pot boils, then put 3 kg of sheep oil into the pot, and rub the blood foam into pieces again. Then put angelica dahurica, cinnamon, tsaoko, dried tangerine peel, almond and other seasonings into the pot according to a certain proportion, add salt at the same time, cook for another 40 minutes, and add a little clove noodles when filling the bowl. There are two key techniques in cooking: first, the use of various condiments, most of which are too strong, while the few are greasy and unclean; The second is to master the temperature. If the fire is small, it will not be able to blend water and oil. If the fire is too urgent and the taste is not complete, it will lose nutrition. Many people want to learn the craft of Shanxian broth, and it is because they can't master these two points that they fail.
Shanxian mutton soup has a history of 200 years and is as famous as many famous foods in China. For example, Jinhua ham and Beijing roast duck. It is called south leg and north duck and middle soup. In China's famous food list, only Shanxian mutton soup is included in the list, which is called "the best soup in the world" by Chinese people.
There are three unique skills in a single county: mutton soup, Baishifang and Baishoufang. There are 100 lifelike lions carved on the posts of the Hundred Lions Square. Baishoufang is engraved with 100 characters with different styles. The two workshops are exquisite in structure, exquisite in carving, exquisite in knife work, simple and elegant, complex but not chaotic, and can be called art treasures. Masons and sculptors who build workshops drink mutton soup every day. If you don't drink for a day, you will be listless and don't work. Some people say that the two sides are poured out of mutton soup, and the first of the three must be mutton soup.
Shan county is rich in green goats. Mutton soup has a history of thousands of years. Until more than 200 years ago, Xiguan Xu Gui improved it, carried it forward, and created the brand of "Sanyihe", which is famous all over the world. After four generations of fire, it was inherited and developed by Sanyichun. It takes fresh mutton as the main material, and adds mutton and seasonings such as pepper, star anise, angelica dahurica, cinnamon, cinnamon, dried tangerine peel, Amomum villosum, onion, ginger, etc. when cooking, and adds water to cook until the cooked meat soup is milky white. When eating, chop the cooked mutton into soup, put it in a bowl, then put the mutton soup on it, and add salt, minced garlic, coriander and spicy oil. Delicious, fat but not greasy, a must. In sales, every time you add water, you should add a certain amount of raw meat before cooking, and add it when you sell it to keep the soup delicious. There are mutton soup made of mutton offal, such as smallpox soup, kouzi soup, tripe soup, milk residue soup, heart, liver, lung and intestine soup. There are different colors and tastes. It's a perfect match to eat with baked wheat cakes. The unique style of Shanxian mutton soup is praised by Renye Fang, who doesn't eat mutton. At present, Shanxian mutton soup has become a good hospitality product, and it has blossomed everywhere in Shandong and Henan. Entering the capital from 65438 to 0986, the diners are like a tide, which is very popular.
Speaking of Shanxian mutton soup, there is another story. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Song and Zheng fought in a place not far from Shan County. Before the war, Huayuan, the coach of the Song Dynasty, arranged to kill sheep and make soup, and personally rewarded the soldiers. It may be dark under the light, but he forgot to give it to the sheep driver. The next day, on the battlefield, the coachman said viciously to Huayuan, "Yesterday, it was you who decided to divide the mutton soup, but today, it was me who decided." So I drove Huayuan behind enemy lines and became a prisoner. This is the origin of the idiom "go your own way". According to a busybody's textual research, the chef who cooks soup is from Shan County. Look how powerful this Shanxian mutton soup is!
Although mutton soup is mellow, before the reform and opening up, there was not enough to eat. Putting down your stomach and drinking mutton soup is a beautiful thing that can only be realized in a dream. When you go to the store, look at the cauldron of soup, smell the attractive fragrance, touch the shriveled pocket and leave with a sigh. That sigh is even longer than the Yellow River! Now that life is good and I have money in my pocket, drinking mutton soup has become a habit. I want to panic if I don't drink for two days. It is said that people are often not found when eating in Shan County. Where is it? To paraphrase: "Either drink mutton soup in the mutton soup kitchen or on the way to drink mutton soup."
Shanxian mutton soup
Shan county in Shandong province is now its administrative region.
Notice of Shan County People's Government on Determining the Protection Scope of Shan County Mutton Soup Geographical Indications, Shan Zheng Zi [20 12] No.7.
Shandong Province Local Standard: DB37/T797-2007 Shanxian Mutton Soup