https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/lamb/ a culinary genealogy Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:12:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://thewoksoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-TWOL-favicon-4-32x32.png https://thewoksoflife.com/category/recipes/lamb/ 32 32 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-lamb-noodle-soup/ https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-lamb-noodle-soup/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:17:00 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=59536 This Chinese Lamb Noodle Soup recipe is inspired by the rich, milky broths of Western Chinese cuisine. It’s full of aromatics, but has a mellow earthy flavor from long-simmered lamb shanks, which cook down and fall right off the bone.  Bright green cilantro, Chinese celery, and chili oil cuts through the richness, making for an ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-lamb-noodle-soup/feed/ 8 https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-stew-spicy-sausage/ https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-stew-spicy-sausage/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:06:20 +0000 https://thewoksoflife.com/?p=23879 With most of the holiday decorations back in storage for the year and what seems like daily “gale warnings” popping up in my weather notifications this past week, it looks like that time of year is fully upon us here in the Northeast: full-on winter, without the holiday cheer to distract us all from the ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-stew-spicy-sausage/feed/ 16 https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-braised-lamb-casserole/ https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-braised-lamb-casserole/#comments Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:24:39 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=21001 Hong Kong Style Chinese Braised Lamb Casserole (zhi zhu yangrou bao, 枝竹羊肉煲 or foo jook yeung yuk bo in Cantonese), is a popular Cantonese dish perfect for the last few winter months. The subtle flavor of the casserole really lets the individual ingredients shine through. This is a telltale sign of a good, traditional Cantonese ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-braised-lamb-casserole/feed/ 57 https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb-burgers/ https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb-burgers/#comments Sat, 13 May 2017 20:03:39 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=18179 With Memorial Day in just a couple of weeks, it’s finally time to think once again about that most beloved of American pastimes—grilling meat. To kick off grill season, I have a really great recipe for you guys: Xi’An-inspired Cumin Lamb Burgers. The Flavor of Xi’An You may recall from our post about Xi’An street ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb-burgers/feed/ 14 https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb-biang-biang-noodles/ https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb-biang-biang-noodles/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:55:43 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=16874 If this recipe for Spicy Cumin Lamb Biang Biang Noodles piqued your interest, you’re probably in one of two camps: 1. The “Hm, this looks intriguing” camp: You saw the picture of the finished dish and thought, “Hm, this looks intriguing. Homemade noodles? With cumin? And lamb? Never heard of a Chinese dish like that, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb-biang-biang-noodles/feed/ 227 https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-rice/ https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-rice/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:01:01 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=15814 This Lamb Rice or Xīnjiāng shou zhuā fàn in Mandarin (新疆手抓饭) is a signature dish in Xinjiang home-cooking. It’s very special and usually reserved for holidays only—for good reason. Sheep are a precious commodity for Xinjiang or Uyghur people. Their wool is a good source of income, and their milk is an essential part of ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-rice/feed/ 49 https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-stew/ https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-stew/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2015 05:03:04 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=12021 Last Saturday as I looked into our impossibly stuffed pantry, full of spices–reds, yellows, greens stacked and crammed into our cabinets, I contemplated what to make for a big meal that would last the workweek. I found myself pulling spices like a hipster at Trader Joe’s yanking half-off cans of organic San Marzano tomatoes and devised this lamb stew ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/lamb-stew/feed/ 45 https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb/ https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:02:43 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=11126 Cumin lamb is a Xinjiang (新疆) dish, similar to Yang Rou Chuan (grilled lamb skewers). Like the wildly popular (and delicious) chuan, it has gone beyond Xinjiang to become a popular dish all over China. I’ve seen it most often at authentic Hunan, Sichuan, and Chinese halal restaurants. It’s really not difficult to see why cumin lamb, ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/cumin-lamb/feed/ 125 https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-lamb-buns-w-honey-soy-drizzle/ https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-lamb-buns-w-honey-soy-drizzle/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:30:17 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=6000 In China–Beijing especially, it seems, you’ll see a lot of things served with bread–pillowy soft steamed buns, doughy pancakes, and small hollowed-out bread “cups” that you can fill up with meat and vegetable fillings. Yes, here in China, the carb fest extends far beyond just rice and noodles. In the spirit of blissful carbohydrate intake–with a ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-lamb-buns-w-honey-soy-drizzle/feed/ 15 https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-beijing-lamb-skewers-yangrou-chuan/ https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-beijing-lamb-skewers-yangrou-chuan/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:21:47 +0000 http://thewoksoflife.com/?p=5084 Some of my only memories from our first trip to Beijing (I was five years old at the time) were of standing in front of a roadside grill joint, waiting for a few of these amazing yangrou chuan or grilled lamb skewers. Beijing was a different place back then—a lot more of the old and less ... View Post ]]> https://thewoksoflife.com/spicy-beijing-lamb-skewers-yangrou-chuan/feed/ 34