Can you eat lambs hooves?
My local farm has some sheep that will be slaughtered soon. I'm challenging myself to find recipes (and non-food usages) of every part of their bodies, so that at least we'll not let them rot away.
I've managed to prepare ligaments and tendons for consumption, but I've never tried to eat hooves. Is it possible? Is it part of any existing cuisine?
Best Answer
Hooves are generally not eaten directly but make great soup. If you Google 'trotter soup', you will find recipes from many different culinary traditions, most of them middle-eastern or from the Indian sub-continent.
This page has some typical recipes: http://www.khanapakana.com/recipe-search/s/trotter
Although trotter generally means pig's hooves in the west, it's used to mean any hooves in the east.
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Can you eat hooves?
Hooves are generally not eaten directly but make great soup. If you Google 'trotter soup', you will find recipes from many different culinary traditions, most of them middle-eastern or from the Indian sub-continent. Although trotter generally means pig's hooves in the west, it's used to mean any hooves in the east.Why do we eat lamb and not sheep?
The meat from a lamb is tenderer as compared to the meat obtained from an adult sheep. On the other hand, mutton has more flavor. For most people that enjoy eating whole cuts like roasts and chops, lamb does the trick. It is mainly because of the tenderness of meat obtained from lambs.Why is lamb not popular in America?
Lamb is not popular with American consumers because it is harder to find a variety of cuts, most people did not grow up eating lamb and the price is higher per pound. Lambs are raised on grass all over the country.It's cool to eat the hooves of the northwest big sheep like this. You can eat 11 of them by yourself
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Answer 2
Ruminant hooves are essentially their toes, but the part that people think of is made from the same material, keratin, as human finger and toe nails. This is not digestible by humans in any manner. So no, lamb hooves cannot be consumed.
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