What do Mongolians eat as staple food every day?

The Mongolian staple food is milk, meat and milk, which is called "Chaganyide" in Mongolian and literally translated as "free food", which means purity and auspiciousness.

1, milk food

Milk can be divided into food and drink. The main foods are white butter, yellow butter, milk skin and buttered eggs. White ghee: After fresh goat's milk or fresh milk is fermented into yogurt in a porcelain jar, it can be separated from the yogurt by pestle for about 10,000 times.

2. Meat

Mongolian meat is mainly beef and mutton, followed by goat meat, camel meat and a small amount of horse meat, and yellow mutton is also hunted during the hunting season. There are more than 70 kinds of traditional ways to eat mutton, such as all-sheep banquet, tender-skinned all-sheep banquet, all-sheep banquet, roasted sheep, roasted sheep heart, fried sheep belly and stewed dishes with sheep brain.

Mongolians pay attention to the clear cooking of mutton and eat it immediately after cooking, so as to keep the mutton fresh and tender, especially when cooking mutton, avoid overcooking it. The Mongolians in the Mongolian-Chinese mixed area in the east of Inner Mongolia also like to add seasonings to cook the meat into crispy mutton. In some areas, Mongolians also like to cut the meat on the tenderloin of sheep into large pieces and fry it into fried meat slices, which is called "big fried sheep" by the people.

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Mongolian Custom-Five Tea Banquets

The ceremony of "Five Tea Banquets" was very grand. First of all, according to the customs of Mongolian in Erdos, guests are seated from VIP to elder in turn. At this time, the host brought a well-done whole sheep, put it on a square wooden plate and put it on the red-painted Eight Immortals table among the guests. The whole sheep is lying on a wooden plate, with its four legs folded and its head on the meat, facing the guests. After that, the host raised the silver bowl and presented the guests with white fresh milk, indicating that he welcomed the guests with the most sacred and auspicious food on the grassland and the highest courtesy of the Mongols.

The guests took the fresh milk in turn, dipped a little milk in the ring finger of their right hand, and solemnly tasted it once to the sky, once to the earth, and finally tasted it themselves to show their respect for heaven, earth, God and their master. Then, the host sang the traditional congratulations on the whole sheep in a clear tone. After the congratulations, the host and guests turned the wooden tray around and let the sheep's head face the host.

The master took out an exquisite Mongolian knife from his body, cut a little around the whole sheep and put it in a small cup, throwing it into the sky, which means to worship God and the earth first. Then, skillfully cut the whole lamb into more than 50 pieces, put it away, turn the wooden tray around, hand it to the guests, stand respectfully, raise your palms with both hands, say "you eat", and then go out backwards. The guest takes off the sheep's head, cuts three pieces of meat on each side of the recommended bone part of the whole sheep, puts them down left and right, and then invites everyone to dinner. Abundant whole sheep and rich atmosphere allow guests to be exposed to the unique customs of Mongolian people.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Mongolian style