Roasted Chicken of Daokou Roasted Chicken

Daokou roasted chicken produced in Henan Province, slip County, Daokou town, Henan Province, China old. Long history, unique flavor, famous at home and abroad, is China's famous local specialty food.

Daokou roasted chicken was founded in the 18th year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1661 AD) with a history of more than 300 years, according to the records of "Joon County Records" and "Slide County Records", in the beginning of more than a hundred years, due to the poor technical conditions, not yet characterized, and the business is not booming. To the Qianlong fifty-two years (AD 1787) roast chicken masters, representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage Zhang Zhonghai ancestor Zhang Bing, accidentally met with the Qing Palace Imperial Kitchen chef friend Liu Yi, who opened a small roast chicken store in the town of Daogou Dajie Street, due to the production of the law, the business is poor. One day an old friend, who had worked as an imperial chef in the Qing Palace's imperial kitchen, came to visit, and he was very skillful. The two men met again after a long time and had a drink. Zhang Bing asked him for advice, the friend then told him a secret recipe: "To roast chicken flavor, eight ingredients plus old soup." The eight ingredients are Chenpi, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves, sand nuts, grass nuts and angelica dahurica; the old soup is the old soup in which the chicken is cooked. Every time you cook a pot of chicken, you must add the old soup of the first pot, so along the way, the older the better. Zhang Bing as the method, made the chicken really fragrant. From then on, business is booming, Zhang Bing named his roast chicken store "Yixing Zhang", meaning "You Yi Xing Zhang".

Qing Jiaqing years, once the Jiaqing Emperor patrol through the road, suddenly smelled a strange aroma and invigorated, and asked the left and right people said: "What issued this incense?" Left and right replied: "Roast chicken". Attendants will offer the roasted chicken, Jiaqing tasted said: "color, aroma, taste, three great". Since then, Daokou roasted chicken became a tribute to the Qing court. Generations of Zhang Bing's children and grandchildren, inherited and developed the mastery of their ancestors, so that "Yi Xing store" roast chicken has maintained his unique flavor. (According to 100 chickens as raw materials)

Cinnamon 90g Serratia 15g

Ginger 90g Clove 5g

Dahurica dahurica 90g Nutmeg 15g

Caojiao 30g Nitrate of soda 10g~15g

Chenpi 30g Salt 2Kg~3Kg 1, raw materials, the selection of chickens

Choose live chickens without disease, weighing about 1.5kg. Weight of about 1.5kg, chicken age of about 1 year, chicken age is too long, the meat is coarse and old, too short, the meat flavor is not good. Generally do not use meat chicken as raw materials.

2, slaughtering and processing

Pre-slaughter preparation: chickens need to stop eating for about 15h before slaughtering, while giving enough water to facilitate the discharge of digestive tract contents, to facilitate the operation, reduce pollution and improve the quality of meat.

Puncture bloodletting: cut off three tubes of bloodletting below the head and neck junction, the cut should not be large, pay attention not to cut off the neck bone, drenching blood for about 5min, bloodletting should be sufficient.

Scalding: prepare hot water first, then put the chicken into the water after bleeding, so that the chicken is submerged in hot water, the water temperature is maintained at about 62 ℃. At any time with a wooden stick up and down the body of the chicken, in order to facilitate the soaking uniform, about 1min, with the hand up the wings of the long hair, a lift will be off the description of the soaking good. Immediately fish out the chicken, the rapid hair, do not continue to soak in hot water, or soaking too much skin brittle and easy to rot. Retirement of hair, along the direction of the hair flow plucking, pushing, stroking combination, quickly retire the hair clean. At the same time to remove the keratinized beak and claw texture layer. The whole operation process should be careful not to break the skin, so as not to cause inferior products. Finally, the chicken immersed in water, plucked the residual hair, washed and ready to open.

Rifling to take the viscera: put the bare chicken on the case, first in the neck on the left side of the skin cut open about 1cm small mouth, carefully separated from the crop, at the same time, pull out the esophagus, trachea, and then use scissors around the anus to cut open the abdominal wall into a ring-shaped incision, separated from the anus, exposing abdominal visceral organs. Hold the chicken body steady with your left hand, and reach into the abdominal cavity with the index and middle fingers of your right hand to slowly pull out the liver, intestines, gizzard, glandular stomach, ovaries and oviducts of the hen, and other internal organs. Rinse with clean water, then soak in clean water for about 1h, remove and drain.

3, modeling: roast chicken modeling good or bad related to the customer's interest in buying, so roast chicken has always attached importance to the inheritance and development of modeling. Daokou roast chicken modeling like a triangle (or Yuanbao shape), beautiful and chic.

First, the two hind limbs from the hock joints to cut off the claws, and then the back to the lower abdomen upward, the head outward tail inward on the case. Use scissors to expand the abdominal wall from the front edge of the incision to the inner side of the two thighs in an arc (can also be used in the slaughtering and processing of rifling from the anus to the inner side of the two thighs in an arc to cut the abdominal wall of the method, to remove the internal organs after the excision of the anus), and in the abdominal wall of the rear edge of the middle of the hole cut a small hole, the length of about 0.5cm. with a dissecting knife to intervene from the incision at the incision of the body cavity, respectively, placed in the spine on both sides of the roots of the knife edge to the ribs, and force the back of the knife, cut off The ribs were cut off by pressing hard on the back of the knife, taking care not to cut through the skin with too much force. Then turn the chicken body to lie on its side, press the breast with the palm of the hand, press down the ribs, and flatten the breast. Cut the skin inside the corner of the elbow joint of both wings to allow the wings to elongate. Take a bamboo stick about 15cm long and 1.8cm in diameter, cut both ends into a double-forked shape, one end of the double-forked stuck to the waist spine, the other end of the chest to support the breast, and put the broken ends of the two hind limbs through the small holes in the back edge of the abdominal wall. Cross the two wings at the back of the neck, so that the head and neck to the back of the spine, the tip of the wings around to the neck of the ventral side of the bloodletting incision, the two wings from the incision to the oral cavity through. After modeling, the outer shape is like a triangle, beautiful and chic.

After modeling, the surface of the chicken body is washed with water and dried.

4, playing sugar

The caramel or honey and water mixed according to the ratio of 3:7, heated and dissolved, evenly coated in the modeling of the chicken after the appearance. Sugar even with or without a direct impact on the effect of deep-fried color, such as uneven sugar, resulting in uneven color deep-fried, affecting the aesthetic, after playing sugar to hang up the chicken to dry the surface moisture.

5, deep-frying

Fried chicken oil, to choose vegetable oil or chicken oil, not and other animal oil. The amount of oil to be able to submerge the chicken body to the extent that the first oil heated to 170 ° C ~ 180 ° C, will play the sugar after drying the water chicken into the oil frying, the main purpose is to make the surface sugar caramelization, caramel pigment, and make the body surface color. About half a minute, such as the surface of the chicken body is persimmon yellow, immediately fish out. Due to the rapid change in color when frying, the operation should be fast and agile. Frying to prevent the oil temperature fluctuation is too large, affecting the effect of deep-frying coloring. Chicken frying should not be placed for a long time, especially in summer should be cooked as soon as possible to prevent deterioration.

6, ingredients cooking

Different varieties of roasted chicken flavor varies, the key lies in the different ingredients. The selection and use of ingredients is an important process in the processing of roasted chicken, the relationship between the flavor of the roasted chicken and the quality of the advantages and disadvantages and complementary nutrition.

When cooking, the ingredients should be weighed proportionally to the weight of the chicken. The spices should be wrapped in gauze and put under the pot. After deep frying the chicken layer by layer into the pot, big chicken and old chicken in the pot on the lower layer, small chicken and young chicken on the upper layer. Use bamboo grates to press down on the top, then add salt, sugar and soy sauce into the pot. Then add the old soup so that the chicken submerged into the liquid below the surface, first boil with high fire, the sodium nitrate with a small amount of soup dissolved and sprinkled into the pot. Changed to micro-fire cooking, the pot can be slowly bubbling soup can be, do not boil, cook until the chicken is soft and cooked through. From the pot people soup boiling start timing, cooking time, about one year chicken about 1.5h, about two years of chicken about 3h. cooked out of the pot that is the finished product. Cooking if there is no old soup available water, pay attention to the appropriate increase in ingredients.

7, the preservation of brined chicken will be left to cool, both fresh sales, can also be vacuum-packed, refrigerated storage. Square bag roast chicken, is Zhoukou's famous halal food, but also a local household name of the specialty treasures. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang fought against the Yuan army and retreated to Chenzhou (present-day Huaiyang), where he escaped the Yuan army's pursuit at Fuxi Temple, and fainted after getting tired, and was rescued by a kindly old farmer surnamed Fang. He was rescued by a kind old farmer surnamed Fang, who made a roasted chicken out of the only old hen in his house and presented it to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang ate it and was so impressed that he called the old farmer into the palace after he became the emperor, specializing in the production of roasted chicken for the imperial family. Later, the old farmer returned to his hometown and opened a roast chicken store in Chenzhou City.

The years have passed, the stars have changed, the Fang family roast chicken production process has been improved, passed down from generation to generation, to the generation of Fang Bubao officially named "Fang Bubao Roast Chicken". Fang Bubao roast chicken production fine, reasonable ingredients, after more than ten procedures, the selection of more than thirty natural precious spices, supplemented by recycling the use of aged broth, made of roast chicken attractive color, chicken flavor, salty and light, tasty, not greasy, the degree of its cooked especially amazing, often eat can be adjusted to the gas and health of the spirit, to drive away the cold and stop the dampness, and prolong life. In addition, in the chicken soup cooked out of the tofu skin is people can not forget to eat, renowned in the Central Plains.

Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken

Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken Shop in Beiguan, Huaiyang is a halal delicatessen that mainly deals with roasted chicken and also sells sheep's head, mutton and tofu skin. Over the past decades, Mr. Su Yizhong has studied and learned from the famous food from all over the world, and created his own secret recipe, which has made Su's roasted chicken famous in the east of Henan Province. Mr. Su Yizhong roasted chicken is famous for its unique production, beautiful shape and color, rotten meat off the bone, and rich nutrition, which is favored by people from all walks of life, and everyone who tastes it applauds it. Well-known painter Lan Tianye (Jiang Ziya's character in "The List of the Gods") praised it after tasting it, saying that Suyizhong roasted chicken meat is fresh and flavorful, Chenzhou's best. In 2006, Mr. Su Yizhong was appointed as the advisor of Halal food by the organizing committee of Henan TV "King of Kitchen" competition, and in 2007, Su Yizhong roasted chicken became the only restaurant in Huaiyang with the best meat and flavor, which is the best in Chenzhou. In 2007, Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken became the only restaurant in Huaiyang to be awarded the municipal "Civilized and Honest Merchant".

Mr. Su Yizhong inherits the essence of traditional craftsmanship and has developed a set of unique experience in the selection of chickens, slaughtering, propping up the type, cooking, soup, fire, etc. He is strict in selecting chickens within two years. He is strict in the selection of chickens, the choice of two years or less of woodchucks to ensure the quality of chicken; with a variety of valuable seasonings, cooked and fried in vegetarian oil, refined production of roasted chicken, rich in protein, with five flavors, crispy soft, salty and mildly palatable, fat and not greasy, fragrant, white and tender meat characteristics.

Decades, Su Yizhong roast chicken always adhere to the traditional operating procedures, so the masses of its roast chicken has "out of the door a hundred paces away, the after-smell to stay in the mouth," the praise; often eaten can be received to open the stomach and spleen, warming and benefiting the qi, and the efficacy of the lift of the spirit. Today, Su Yizhong Roasted Chicken has become a good gift for people visiting relatives and friends in Huaiyang, and it has become the first choice of famous food for tourists from home and abroad. Wang Lan roast chicken is Shenqiu characteristics of local famous food, the head office is located in Shenqiu County, Yongji New City, by Ms. Wang Lan after more than 30 years in the ancestor of the secret system based on the development of research and its creation of roast chicken colorful, fragrant and soft rotten pine. Raw materials used in the first grade chicken supplemented by dozens of valuable Chinese medicine secret system, unique taste, cooked and rotten especially suitable for elderly people to eat, and the development of the launch of vacuum packaging series, improve the storage time. Its roast chicken is also Shenqiu County Government reception designated local specialties.