What are the traditional Mongolian foods?

Mongolian diet can be roughly divided into three categories, namely meat, milk and grain.

There are more than 70 kinds of traditional ways to eat mutton, such as all-sheep banquet, tender all-sheep banquet, all-sheep banquet with wool, roast sheep, roast sheep heart, stir-fried sheep belly and stewed dishes with sheep brain. The most distinctive ones are Mongolian roasted whole sheep (peeled and roasted), oven roasted whole sheep with skin or Alashan roasted whole sheep, and the most common one is grasping sheep by hand.

Fried rice is a unique Mongolian food, which occupies the same important position as red and white food in daily diet. Mongolians in the western region also have the custom of "bumping people" with fried rice. There are more and more foods made of flour in Mongolian daily diet, the most common ones are noodles and pancakes. They are good at making distinctive Mongolian buns, Mongolian pies and stuffed Mongolian cakes. Mongolian people can't live without tea every day. In addition to drinking black tea, almost everyone has the habit of drinking milk tea. The first thing in the morning is to boil milk tea. Milk tea is best boiled with clear water. After boiling, pour into a clean pot or pot filled with tea powder and boil for 2-3 minutes. Then, mix fresh milk and salt and boil.

Mongolian milk tea sometimes adds butter, or milk skin, or fried rice. , fragrant and salty, is a nourishing drink containing many nutrients. Some people even think that it's okay not to eat for three days and not to drink milk tea for one day.

Mongolians also like to cook milk tea with fruits, leaves and flowers of many wild plants. Boiled milk tea has different flavors, and some can prevent and treat diseases.

Most Mongolians can drink alcohol, mostly white wine and beer, and some areas also drink milk wine and koumiss wine. Every holiday or when friends and relatives get together, there is a habit of drinking a lot. Koumiss is fermented from fresh koumiss without distillation.

Typical food: There are many distinctive Mongolian foods here, such as roast sheep, roast whole sheep with skin, hand-pulled mutton, fried sheep, roast leg of lamb, milk tofu, Mongolian buns, Mongolian pies and so on. There are also folk: thin cream; Milk skin; Mao Mao sheep feast; Cooked roast sheep; Chinese cabbage and mutton rolls; Xinsu cake; Dry the rice.