The rice cooker is a necessary household appliance in our kitchen. We can't cook without an electric cooker every day. It can be said that the rice cooker is an indispensable electrical appliance in the kitchen. With the progress of society, there are more and more types and uses of rice cookers. If you use an old-fashioned rice cooker at home, it is not difficult to find that there are many more function keys on the rice cooker than before. In addition to cooking, there are many different functions such as cooking rice and porridge.

So what can rice cookers be used for besides cooking? What I want to share with you today is another wonderful use of the rice cooker "cooking". I don't know if you have ever tried to cook in standby mode with the rice cooker at home. In fact, cooking with a rice cooker is also very simple, so don't worry about cooking. What I want to recommend to you today is the' salted chicken' made by rice cookers, which is also very suitable for supplementing nutrition for family members in autumn. Delicious and simple.

Name of dish: rice cooker salted chicken

Ingredients required: fresh chicken 1 piece, right amount of roasted salt powder, 5 slices of ginger, onion 1 root, gardenia 1 flower.

Cooking steps:

1. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients, such as fresh chicken. If there is no baked salt powder, you can also use a proper amount of turmeric powder, salt, white pepper, chicken essence and cooking wine to make a sauce instead.

2. In order to make the color of salted chicken more appetizing, you can use Gardenia, cut it into pieces, put it in a bowl and soak it in proper amount of water. Gardenia is also a very common food dye, so you can use it with confidence to make the salted chicken as bright as the one bought outside.

3. Find a bigger plastic bag, clean the whole chicken and put it in the plastic bag, then pour in the prepared roasted salt powder, gardenia water, ginger and onion, grab it and put it in the bag for pickling. Remember to spread the seasoning evenly on the outside and stomach of the chicken.

We can see that the plastic bag has turned yellow after being mixed evenly. It is also used for pickling to prevent dishes and green hands from turning yellow. When curing chicken, we can spread it evenly through plastic bags, then twist the bags and leave them for more than 1 hour.

After curing, we can take out our rice cooker. First, spread the prepared ginger and onion segments on the bottom of the inner liner of the rice cooker, put the marinated chicken into the rice cooker, cover it, and select the cooking function. There is no need to add water, because the chicken will secrete oil during cooking, and there is no need to worry about the problem of burning the pot, which will make the taste stronger.

6. The prepared salted chicken can be torn into small pieces by hand, which is more convenient to eat. Chicken is delicious, too. It's not too greasy and healthy. Let's have a try.

Cooking skills:

1. Gardenia is mainly used to make the color of chicken more appetizing, and it can also be as delicious as the salted chicken bought outside. Gardenia is a safe dye, so don't worry when using it.

2. Because of the heavy color of gardenia, it is best to separate the chicken with plastic bags.