What are the delicious specialties in Inner Mongolia?

1. Roast whole sheep: a traditional Mongolian dish, specially prepared for entertaining VIPs or holding banquets at major celebrations. Generally, the sheep fattened on the grassland and weighing about 40 kilograms are slaughtered, and the whole sheep is roasted with seasonings such as onion, ginger, pepper and salt in the abdomen, without hair and skin. This dish has a complete sheep shape. The sheep kneels in a square wooden plate with golden red color, crispy sheepskin and tender mutton.

2, mutton hot pot: originated in the Yuan Dynasty. Inner Mongolia instant-boiled mutton mostly uses the outer ridge, hind legs, sheep tail and other parts of the big-tailed sheep, cut into thin slices and gently rinsed in hot pot boiling soup; Then take the prepared sesame paste, fermented bean curd, chives, chopped green onion, shredded ginger, shrimp oil, etc. As seasoning. Sliced meat is tender and delicious, not greasy, and eaten while rinsing. It is worth mentioning that what is popular now is a new way of eating represented by Baotou "Little Sheep".

3. Roast leg of lamb: It is made of boneless hind leg meat of sheep and onion and celery. When eating, change the knife and cut into pieces, keep the original state, and serve with yellow sauce, onion and lotus leaf cake. This dish is beautiful in appearance, reddish brown in color, crispy in meat and mellow in taste.

4. Sheep's back: a precious dish loved by Mongolian people, which can only be seen at festivals, weddings, birthday celebrations for the elderly or banquets to welcome relatives and friends. Method: Divide the whole lamb into seven pieces (excluding the chest fork), put the tail into the pot and cook with salt. First, put the limbs, sheep's back and neck leaves on the cauldron, put the sheep's head on the sheep's back, and serve in a crawling posture similar to that of a sheep. When eating, everyone first pulls a piece of fat from the sheep's tail with a Mongolian knife, and then takes what they need.

5, hand-grabbed meat: not eating hand-grabbed meat is not considered to have been to the grassland! Braised pork is the favorite and most commonly used traditional food of people of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia prairie for thousands of years, and it has also become one of the local flavors in Inner Mongolia. The method of making and eating is very unique: divide the sheep into several pieces according to the bones of each joint, put them into a pot of boiled water, without adding seasonings such as salt, keep the original flavor with fire, and properly control the heat. As long as the meat changes color, it can be eaten. The meat is fresh but not tender, fat but not greasy and easy to digest.