WHAT IS MUTTON
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... we recommend that you choose your mutton at the "two-tooth" age. Around a year old. Then it has the flavour of mutton, but the tenderness of lamb.
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INGREDIENTS
The basic ingredients of a mutton recipe are, wait for it... mutton! What I love about mutton in Holland is that it's the only red meat that you can sure be has enjoyed the great outdoors. It's relatively "natural". Beef and pork spend a great deal of their lives indoors fed on corn and whatever. You can certainly taste the difference. An animal that has fed primarily on grass, its natural fodder.I have no scientific evidence to back it up for our What is Mutton page, but with eggs for example, there's ample evidence that the fat profile is quite different between scratch eggs, and chickens fed primarily on corn. They are more healthy. And they taste better, if you have a discerning tongue. However, no matter how healthy your lamb is, it's still going to be high in saturated fat, the stuff that clogs your arteries. There's an easy and delicious solution: add lots of your favourite vegetables. Here are mine: - 3 lbs of mutton neck, sliced between bones.
- 3 onions
- 5 potatoes
- 1 eggplant /aubergine /brinjal.
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- 3-4 tomatoes (plus extra tomato paste?)
- Whole corm of garlic
- Bunch of Celery leaves (keep the stalks for your salads and lunch boxes.
- Let your imagine run wild: mushrooms, zuccini, bell peppers, carrot, of course, ...
- Hot chili pepper
- Ginger
- Salt and pepper, your favourite herbs and spices. Curried mutton? Easy, add the right spices for your Indian mutton recipies.
- One bottle of beer.
Let's go...
STEP 1
Cut most of the meat off the bone into pieces about the size of the last digit of your thumb. Then you can cook the neck bones slightly longer to extra the rich gelatine that's full of glucosamine, the stuff that's good for your cartilage. Pour a little olive oil into a heavy pot, moderate heat, add the mutton vertebrae, turning frequently until lightly browned. Remove.More olive oil, likewise the mutton pieces. Not too hot, they will burn. ASIDE 1: Only cook with butter or olive oil. The polyunsaturate oils like sunflower oil are unstable, and will break down at high heat, forming nasty trans isomers. We eat too much polys anyway, throws your Omega-3 / Omega-6 ratio right out of balance. ASIDE 2: If you want your mutton recipe to look more like mutton chops, actually mutton neck, than ground mutton goulash, then leave the neck pieces whole. It will take longer to cook. ASIDE 3: Before braising your mutton neck slices, take a good look at some of the hyaline cartilage in the joints. It's the super smooth hard white stuff IN the joint. See the knife below... That's how you want your hyaline cartilage to stay.
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By now the mutton bones should be nearly brown, keep turning them so they don't burn.
STEP 2
Meanwhile chop your onions roughly. No need to slice them finely. Then peel the potatoes, leaving them whole, and prepare the garlic and ginger. (Do it right, take the time to do fresh garlic and ginger, it's worth it both because it tastes better, isn't oxidised and full of preservatives...)
STEP 3
Scoop out the mutton recipe pieces, keeping the bones and the pieces separate. Add a little more olive oil to your skillet, and cook the onions, garlic and thinly sliced fresh ginger on low heat until golden brown. If you are making Indian mutton recipes, this is the stage where you add the curry powder, the masala, the dhania powder, the curry leaves... cinnamon, your favourites.
Meanwhile prepare you other veges. Peel the garlic, and the ginger slicing the latter finely, wash your aubergine and celery leaves and chop them coarsely. If you have a sweet tooth, DON'T ADD SUGAR, rather use some dried fruit. I often toss in half a dozen apricots...
STEP 4
Scoop out the onions and garlic/ginger mix, and place the mutton bones at the bottom followed by the whole potatoes. Or vice versa!
STEP 5:
Now cover the mutton recipe bones and potatoes with alternating layers of vegetables and semi chopped/ ground mutton pieces. If you've favoured the Indian mutton recipes version they neighbours' noses will be twitching by now, and the kids will be calling: "What's cooking, Dad?" I'm no sexist but this is definitely brave work. ASIDE: Let the squaw clean up the mess. I just tossed out my favourite potato peeler with the peels. Twit! Her favourite too, I'm in trouble. "GET OUTA MY KITCHEN!"
Add the beer and turn onto moderate heat until boiling, and then turn right down. Watch it carefully, it may run dry and burn if the heat is too high.
I like to add the coarsely chopped tomatoes (and, if you're making curried mutton, the fresh coriander leaves, nearer the end. (Not shown). About an hour from when you add the beer. Meantime, with all this cholesterol start to prepare your side dishes.
WHAT'S FOR DINNER?
Meantime, the good wife's been busy with Helens 15 euro salad, the one that saved my bacon. Literally. To which I like to add a good dollop of our authentic hummus recipe. The one you can make in your own kitchen in only four minutes...
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Then because I have so much cancer in my family, I make sure we'll be having another dish like Helen's very special sauteed mushrooms recipe. Full of anti-cancer good stuff. Read more...
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SLOW FOOD, MADE FAST?
I regret not! This mutton recipe takes a lot longer than bbq mutton, but I promise you it tastes and lot better, and you'll live a lot longer too. In fact, I absolutely guarantee that by the time you've made this curried mutton, and the salad and mushrooms, your cholesterol will be lower than when you started. ASIDE: Read the medical stuff about cholesterol with a slightly cynical, jaundiced eye. Our forebears ate plenty of cholesterol rich food, and heart disease was virtually unheard of - literally - until 100 years ago. The spoke in the wheel isn't cholesterol, you can't live without that, your hormones are all made of cholesterol, but our life style. Rush and hurry aren't of the Devil. They are the very Devil. But I promise you Gran and Gramps didn't eat meat and potatoes. They ate a well rounded diet full of fruit and veg to go with their butter and red meat. Your granparents live longer than your parents, too?
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CHIROPRACTIC CORNER
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