Mongolian Cuisine

Introduction

The traditional food of the Mongol people, built mainly on meat and dairy products.

Mongolian cuisine is the traditional food of the Mongol people, found in Inner Mongolia and other areas where Mongols live, and traditionally grouped as red food, meaning meat, and white food, meaning dairy, with milk regarded as sacred and white foods coming first. In the traditional daily pattern, breakfast is toasted millet with milk tea, and beef and mutton are eaten at noon and in the evening. Hand-held mutton is boiled and eaten by hand, simply seasoned to keep its original flavour; whole roast lamb is served as a high honour for distinguished guests, and milk tofu is fine in texture. The Yin Shan Zheng Yao, a book of the Yuan period, records many mutton dishes.