Kelan baizi mutton

Baizi sheep is produced in Kelan mountain area, where small cypresses and ancient cypress forests grow all over the mountains. Goats feed on cypress seeds and leaves, so they are called "cypress seed sheep". Mutton with cypress seeds has fine meat quality, clear texture, delicious taste and unique cypress seed flavor. The dishes cooked with this kind of mutton are not fishy and delicious. The Baizi sheep in Kelan is mainly stewed, and the original soup is original and delicious, so it does not need to be covered with condiments. Cypress-seed mutton is distinct in meat and oil, tender and delicate in fat, purplish red in meat and jade-white in oil, which is quite different from other mutton. Meat dishes and meat stuffing made of cypress seed mutton are not greasy, but also have a fragrant cypress, unique flavor and endless aftertaste. "Baizi Mutton" contains eight kinds of essential amino acids which can't be synthesized by human body, in addition to the nutrients contained in ordinary mutton. Eating this kind of meat can regulate blood and qi, soothe the nerves and replenish the heart. The administrative area under the jurisdiction of kelan county, Shanxi Province, is the Letter of the People's Government of kelan county on Delineating the Scope of Protection of Geographical Indication Products of Kelan Baizi Mutton, the Quality and Technical Specification of Kelan Baizi Mutton by kelan county Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau (No.22, 2012), and the number of Kelan Baizi Mutton is No.7.
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