Home-style Hand-Pulled Lamb Rice Meal Preparation

　　Rice is the classic staple food for Chinese people, from our earliest memories, rice has been inseparable from us. Every meal at the table features it, and if we leave rice out, even the most delicious dishes would feel incomplete.

Xinjiang, in my heart, is always a dream-like place. My family always wants to drive there for Xinjiang and Tibet, but I am still hesitating. Sigh, people who think too much can't handle it.

Recently, Xinjiang restaurants have become very popular in Wuhan with many opening up. We've gone to five or six different ones already, each offering the same dishes, such as grilled lamb ribs.Spicy chicken dish, all of which taste great, definitely a paradise for meat lovers.

Electric rice cooker slow-cooked exotic delicacies---hand-pulled mutton rice.

Rice: 135 grams mutton ribs, 235 grams lamb tenderloin, 160 grams of rice.Vegetables: onion

120 grams,tomato 80 grams, carrot 100 grams, potato 120 grams. Marinade: 3 grams salt, 4 grams of cumin seeds,black pepper 1 gram,

egg white 1 piece. Ingredients:butter 30 grams,

raisins 10 grams, 3 grams salt, coriander . Hand-pulled mutton rice preparation steps 1. Rinse the lamb and soak in clean water for an hour to remove blood water; add a few Sichuan pepper slices and ginger pieces with cooking wine for better flavor.2. After soaking, remove the bones from the lamb and cut into small cubes. 3. Add some water to the lamb bones along with a few onions and tomatoes, simmering it into mutton broth; don't add too much water as 150 grams are enough for cooking rice.

4. While simmering the mutton broth, marinate the lamb pieces in the marinade.

5. Mix well and let it sit for 30 minutes.6. Prepare all side dishes, cut into small cubes. 7. Soak the potato cubes in water to prevent them from turning color.8. Rinse the rice with the mutton broth, soaking for 15-30 minutes. 9. Prepare the raisins.10. If there are very fatty parts in the lamb, separate and fry out the mutton fat. 11. A lot of fat was rendered.

12. Fry the lamb pieces with the fat until they turn color; remove from heat after frying.

13. Melt butter in a pan.

14. Add onion first, and when fragrant, add tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots, stir-frying them together.

15. Add the lamb pieces and season with salt to taste.

16. Once cooked, transfer the side dishes into the

rice cooker

and cook as usual. After the rice is done cooking, mix well, and add more salt and coriander according to your preference for a delicious dish.Hand-pulled mutton rice preparation tips 1. When stir-frying, it might seem like there are too many ingredients, but after cooking the rice, you can reduce them by about one-third; you can use lamb ribs or lamb tenderloin exclusively.

2. The amount of salt in the above list may be insufficient; mix well and taste before adding more according to your preference, I added another 3 grams at last.

3. For cooking rice, I used 150 grams of mutton broth.

4. The number of onions and tomatoes added when simmering lamb bones is not specified here, just a few pieces are enough.

5. We don't usually like raisins much, so we only used a little bit.

6. While I had made hand-pulled mutton rice before, using the lamb bone to make broth and cooking the rice with that broth is inspired by an Xinjiang friend's method; it makes for a more authentic taste.

Hand-pulled mutton rice Ingredients A suggestion for pairing

Rice and

asparagus can be consumed together: consuming them together greatly increases their nutritional value, which is beneficial for children's growth. Millet

and lamb can also be eaten together: lamb contains high protein with only half the fat content of pork; it also contains phosphorus, iron, calcium, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and niacin. It has a warm taste, sweet flavor, and benefits such as replenishing qi and strengthening the middle energizer, treating erectile dysfunction, early ejaculation, postpartum weakness, stomach pain due to coldness, poor appetite, lung weakness with prolonged coughing, or asthma.

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Above the ingredient list, there might not be enough salt. After steaming the rice, mix it well and taste it to adjust the salt according to your preference; I added about 3 grams more.

When cooking the rice, I used 150 grams of mutton broth.

For the bone soup, I didn't specify the amount of tomatoes and onions. A few slices should suffice.

We don't usually like raisins much, so we used a small amount.

Although we've made hand-pulled mutton rice before, using lamb bones to make stock and then cooking the rice in the broth is inspired by a Xinjiang friend; it feels more authentic.

Hand-pulled Mutton Rice Ingredients Complementary Tips

Rice and Asparagus Can be eaten together: Consuming both enhances nutritional value significantly, benefiting children's growth.

　　Rice and Millet can be eaten together: Lamb is rich in protein,while the fat content is only half that of pork, and contains phosphorus, iron, calcium, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, etc. It has a warm and sweet taste, providing nourishment, warming the middle burner, and treating various conditions like impotence, chronic cough, and weak lungs.