Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: rendered beef tallow cooled until solid.

Beef fat

牛油Niúyóu

Cattle-derived fat over the cooking stock.

Type
Cooking fats and oils

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Cattle-derived fat over the cooking stock.

In the kitchen

Covers the cooking stock for Pingyao beef.

Here niuyou means beef fat, not butter.

Ask about this ingredient

这道菜里有牛油吗?

Does this dish contain Beef fat?

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