"Yimeng bachelor chicken" is a famous local food in Mengyin, which is popular in Yimeng mountain area with its unique flavor. Founder Fu Zeming opened a fried chicken shop in Chengxiling, Mengyin County, which specializes in frying local farmers to eat pine nuts, drink mountain spring water and raise Mengshan chickens (commonly known as stupid chickens) in barren hills. Due to the unique frying technology and ingredients, the fried bachelor chicken is bright in color, juicy, rich in flavor and inexhaustible in fragrance, which is well received by customers. Because the staff of the fried chicken shop are all men, and the materials used are all big cocks, they call this dish "bachelor chicken" and "bachelor chicken shop", which has been praised as "the best fried chicken" by the central, provincial and municipal leaders for many times.

Main raw materials: a grass chicken, oil, green pepper or dried red pepper, ginger, onion, soy sauce, broth, salt, dried tangerine peel, star anise and pepper.

Characteristics of Yimeng bachelor chicken: bright red color, wide juice, strong taste, mellow fragrance and strong medicinal fragrance.

Specific steps:

1, chicken chops, washed. Add about 100g of cool oil (half peanut oil and half lard) into the pot, add onion, ginger and dried red pepper into the auxiliary materials and stir fry, then add chicken pieces and stir fry until slightly yellow.

2. Add about 50g of soy sauce and continue to stir fry for a while. Add about 500g of water, and simmer over medium heat until there is little chicken soup. Add Chili pieces and fried chicken raw materials and continue to stir fry. Cut off the pepper and serve.

3. Stir-fried chicken materials (star anise 75g, cardamom, cinnamon and fennel 40g each, angelica dahurica, Amomum tsaoko and kaempferia kaempferia 30g each, Amomum tsaoko and geranium 25g each, clove and licorice10g each, washed, stir-fried with low fire, cooled and ground into powder).