Unlike many other country cuisines, Mongolian meals are simple includes basic ingredients, influenced by the nomadic way of life, weather, and availability of ingredients. You could cook most Mongolian meals using meat and wheat flour.
Ingredients:
Fatty beef (ribs are preferable)
Salt
Water
How to cook Mongolian beef?
Boil the fatty Mongolian beef low and slow in saltwater, as long as how tender meat you wish. Tapping the pot helps keep the meat nutrients besides shortening the beef tendering process. The nomadic Mongolians do not pay much attention to meat tenderness. Instead, they prefer chewy meat. Therefore, Mongolians cook the beef for one hour to one and a half hours.
We suggest you cook the beef for 2 hours or longer.
Nowadays, there are alterations in Mongolian beef cooking, boiling vegetables (carrots, potatoes, and cabbage), and rolled-out simple dough that consists of water and flour in the same soup at the same time. However, calculate the vegetables and flour cooking time and boil them at the later stage of cooking.
You can drink the soup or use it for another dish. For example, when making noodle soup.
You also can prepare a beef soup dip, taking some amount from the boiling beef soup and mixing it with more salt and raw onion.
What is the quality of Mongolian beef?
Mongolian beef contains less heavy metals apart from it is not polluted by radioisotopes as a result of year-round pastoral grazing. According to studies, Mongolian beef comprises less fat and tends to be chewy as animals graze in open pastureland.
Mongolian cow breed protein content increases when the cows age. Due to the practical high consumption of meat and Mongolians’ tendency not to slaughter young animals, visitors to Mongolia should expect protein-rich beef in Mongolia.
Mongolian beef price
Mongolian beef price differentiates a little depending on the region. For example, the average boneless beef per kg price is MNT 14.000 equals 4.90$ in Ulaanbaatar. The price in central Mongolia is similar to Ulaanbaatar. Although, the per kg price is 2000 to 3000 MNT/ 0.70 to 1.05$ lower in eastern Mongolia, where the more meat breeds are or Bayan-Ulgii province of western Mongolia, where the Kazakh people prefer horse meat to beef. On the contrary, the beef costs a bit high in the Gobi Desert regions, the least suitable area for cow breeding. 1 kg beef costs 15.000 to 15.500 MNT 5.26 to 5.43$ in the Gobi Desert.