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Sheep meat

Also called lamb and hogget

Sheep meat is meat that cooks can boil, simmer, or braise. They can also grill, roast, steam, or stew it.

  • Meat
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens
  • Pork depends on the product

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in
Africa, Europe
Top country
Italy
Sheep meat, whole

Photo: Tvabutzku1234 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use sheep meat

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer
  • Braise
  • Grill
  • Roast
  • Steam
  • Stew

Cooking with it

Hogget and mutton tend to be tougher than lamb and suit casserole cooking. For forequarter cuts from older sheep, use slow cooking, such as braising, stewing or slow roasting.

Around the world

Where sheep meat is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use sheep meat. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list sheep meat among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1600s · United States

    The Navajo incorporated lamb and mutton into their cuisine after Spanish explorers and settlers introduced sheep.

On the table

Dishes made with sheep meat

2 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Msoki

    Tunisia

  • Mutton biryani

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include sheep meat.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: sheep meat in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
From: meatChecked and not found: egg, fish, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
Depends on the product (depends on which animal the meat comes from)

Family

Related forms

A kind of
meat
Kinds
lamb meat, mutton

Around the world

What sheep meat is called

Names in 61 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    carne de oveja · carne ovina

  • French

    viande de mouton · viande ovine · mouton (viande) · viande de brebis

  • Italian

    carne ovina

  • Portuguese

    carne de ovino

  • German

    Schaffleisch

  • Dutch

    schapenvlees

  • Greek

    πρόβειο κρέας

  • Turkish

    koyun eti

  • Russian

    баранина · мясо барана · баранятина

  • Polish

    baranina · mięso baranie

  • Arabic

    لحم ضأن · ضأن

  • Persian

    گوشت گوسفند

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  • Afrikaans

    Skaapvleis

  • Albanian

    mish deleje

  • Azerbaijani

    qoyun əti

  • Bashkir

    һарыҡ ите

  • Basque

    ardiki · ardi-okela · ardi-haragia

  • Belarusian

    бараніна

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    бараніна

  • Breton

    Kig-dañvad

  • Bulgarian

    овче месо

  • Cantonese

    羊肉

  • Catalan

    carn d'ovella

  • Chinese

    羊肉

  • Croatian

    ovčetina

  • Czech

    skopové maso · skopové

  • Danish

    fårekød

  • Esperanto

    ŝafaĵo

  • Estonian

    lambaliha

  • Finnish

    lampaanliha

  • Haitian Creole

    vyann mouton

  • Hebrew

    בשר כבש

  • Hungarian

    birkahús

  • Indonesian

    daging domba

  • Irish

    caoireoil

  • Japanese

    羊肉

  • Javanese

    daging domba

  • Kazakh

    қой еті

  • Korean

    양고기

  • Kyrgyz

    кой эти

  • Latvian

    aitas gaļa

  • Lithuanian

    aviena

  • Macedonian

    овчо месо · јагнешко место

  • Malay

    daging biri-biri

  • Maltese

    laħam tan-nagħaġ

  • Māori

    mīti hipi

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    sauekjøtt · fårekjøtt

  • Odia

    ମେଣ୍ଢା ଛୁଆ

  • Piedmontese

    Carn ëd feja

  • Romanian

    carne de oaie

  • Serbian

    овчетина · овчје месо

  • Simplified Chinese

    羊肉

  • Slovak

    ovčie mäso

  • Slovenian

    ovčetina · ovčje meso

  • Swedish

    fårkött

  • Tatar

    сарык ите

  • Traditional Chinese

    羊肉

  • Ukrainian

    баранина

  • Urdu

    بھیڑ کا گوشت

  • Uyghur

    قوي گۆشى

  • Uzbek

    Qoʻy goʻshti

  • Vietnamese

    thịt cừu · thịt trừu

  • Welsh

    cig dafad

  • Wu Chinese

    羊肉

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q123122627

Photos

Photo: Tvabutzku1234 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons