Mutton Powder Soup

[ Mutton Powder Soup ]

How to make it

It is the traditional light repast in Dunhuang. Choose the plump and sturdy Xie sheep which are feet by local people in Dunhuang, kill, wash clearly and cut into the big pieces, then put them in the pot with clean water. Wait for it is good, beat clearly the blood, put little refined salt of person, the meat gets after is familiar, shaving the bone, the empress will shave the bone to return to pot, boil soup. Edible, add water to the bone soup firstly, put the just right amount of ginger, pepper, wild pepper, cassia, the jade fruit, hot pepper, refined salt, turnip slices, garlic etc. the spice to boil, ladle up the familiar meat and cut into the thin slice the whole piece and cool powder in prosperous bowls, put into the boiled soup again, add parsley end, Chinese chives and spring onion, hot pepper end etc. on the top. Green, white, red and yellow of the view, the flavor comes into nostrils, the joss-stick of the food is hot and good to eat, fatty but don't get fed up with. It has the effects of nourishing, having fever and dispelling cold.