The practice of jar chicken

Authentic jar chicken is Tengchong cuisine, which originated in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished in the early Qing Dynasty. It is made by adding secret medicated diet to chicken and stewing it in a porcelain jar. Chicken tastes tender but not greasy, which is very suitable for the elderly and children. Because the jar chicken porcelain jar is specially made and the Chinese medicine formula is confidential, it is very difficult to make it, but people like this delicious food very much, so many home-cooked dishes have been continued. Instead, it is braised in a domestic casserole, and it tastes very good. Next, I will talk about the method of making jar chicken, hoping to help you.

Prepare ingredients:

A chicken, pepper, star anise, fragrant leaves, cinnamon, cooking wine, yellow wine, ginger, soy sauce, fennel, garlic, chicken essence.

Cooking steps:

Buy a native chicken, gut it, clean it, and shape it.

Wrap all the prepared ingredients in gauze and put them in the chicken's stomach.

Put the chicken in a casserole, add water, add soy sauce, soy sauce, cooking wine and yellow wine, and bring to a boil.

After boiling, simmer for three hours. If it is an old chicken, you can add more time until the chicken is cooked.

Add salt when it is almost cooked, sprinkle with chicken essence after cooking, and take out the chicken to eat.

Cooking skills:

Now jar chicken has expanded into a common home-cooked dish. You can add your favorite seasoning according to your own taste, or you can add your favorite vegetables, such as mushrooms and radishes, and stew them together, so that the taste is better.

When choosing chickens, we should pay attention to the fact that free-range chickens at home are the best, and chickens that are too fat or too thin are not allowed. Moderate chicken is best. Too fat chicken is very greasy when cooked, and it is easy to go too far in the process of stewing too thin, which is not delicious and has a bad shape.

If you want the jar chicken to be delicious, you can also fry it in the oil pan in advance, brush a layer of honey on the surface of the machine, then fry it in the oil pan, and then stew it in the jar after frying, which will taste better.

Nutritional value of jar chicken;

Because the jar chicken is stewed in a jar, the effective nutrients in the chicken are locked to a great extent, and the chicken itself has the effect of tonifying the middle warmer, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, so the effect of the jar chicken is better. It is very suitable for symptoms such as initial recovery from a serious illness or maternal weakness after discharge, and is also very suitable for children. It is a rare delicious and healthy food.