Nourishing Braised Lamb Neck 滋补羊脖
Nourishing Braised Lamb Neck is featured among the local specialties of Hebei.
Nourishing Braised Lamb Neck (滋补羊脖) is a lamb dish from Hebei (河北). On 10 September 2018 the China Cuisine Association (中国烹饪协会) published its list of classic regional dishes and themed banquets for every province, "Chinese Cuisine" (中国菜), and this dish was one of the ten classic dishes it named for Hebei.
Flavour and texture
Hebei News Network (河北新闻网), describing the dish when the list came out, calls lamb neck meat fine and tender, with almost no layer of fat, and says it has a fresh, savoury taste.
Ingredients
The dish is built on lamb neck, and its name presents it as nourishing. Hebei News Network's description explains this with the meat itself: it notes that mutton is regarded as warm in nature and that the Compendium of Materia Medica (本草纲目) treats it as a warming tonic that restores yang and builds up blood and qi.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-24. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.