Where is Shouguang Tiger Head Chicken

Shouguang tiger chicken, also known as Shouguang Wang Gao tiger chicken, is a traditional Shouguang specialties. Previously, a large number of fall and winter roosters slaughtered after the difficult to save, they will be chicken chopping, hanging paste, deep-fried, into the clay jar to save the flavor of the coming year unchanged, after frying the chicken block shaped like a tiger's head, so the name of the tiger's head chicken. In the past, Wanggao town was the necessary route for Jiao Lai to enter Beijing, with many stores and wine flags. To the Qing Dynasty, Wang Gao people made the tiger head chicken has been famous. Its characteristics: stewed bones and tender meat, soup clear flavor; back to oil supplemented with salt, outside the crispy meat tender, slightly spicy and salty. Whenever the banquet to pay attention to: "a chicken, two fish, three gazpacho, four happy pills to follow," the harmonic for: "a Ji, two Yu, three good material," tiger chicken for Shouguang iconic local food, Weifang City intangible cultural heritage list.

Tiger head chicken is a traditional specialty of Shouguang, originated in the Qing Dynasty, in Shouguang to have hundreds of years of history. Shouguang people have a custom, came to the VIP and celebratory banquets, dishes are in accordance with the "a chicken, two fish, three cold dishes" order. This chicken is the tiger head chicken, which shows that the "tiger head chicken" dish in Shouguang feast on the weight!

Tiger head chicken production method is delicate, choose a domesticated rooster, slaughter depilated after the head, claws, chicken stacked into a square of about 1.5 centimeters, evenly dipped in the above portion. Beat three eggs and stir them repeatedly, then add the noodles and stir them into an egg-yellow paste. Boil the soybean oil (the temperature should not be too high), put the chicken into the frying pan with the egg paste, and press it until golden brown. At this point for the semi-finished product, because of its shape like a tiger's head, so called "tiger head chicken". Add warm water in a casserole or iron pot, put the squeezed chicken, cut yam or potato and seasonings, green onion, salt, ginger, etc., and simmer over low heat. When one of the yam or potato is good can be out of the pot, and finally according to taste sprinkled with green onion parsley can be. Characterized by: stewed chicken crispy meat rotten, mellow and delicious, chicken soup is delicious, for entertaining VIPs, celebratory banquets of the necessary delicacies.