Daokou roasted chicken is one of the traditional Han Chinese dishes, made by the "Yixing Zhang" family roast chicken store in Daokou Town, Slide County, Henan Province, is a famous specialty in China. Created in the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi eighteen years, has been nearly three hundred and fifty years of history, the beginning of the production of the law, business is not prosperous, and then from the Qing Palace Imperial House of the Royal Chef where the production of roasted chicken secret recipe to make the chicken is really fragrant and beautiful. Daokou roast chicken production techniques have been passed down through the generations, forming its own unique style. Daokou roasted chicken is known as "the second chicken in the world", along with Peking duck and Jinhua ham.

History and Culture

Daokou Roasted Chicken was founded in the 18th year of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty, which is more than 300 years ago. According to Joon County Records and Slide County Records, in the beginning of the first 100 years, due to the poor technical conditions, it was not yet characterized by a thriving business. To Qianlong fifty-two years now roast chicken masters, representative bearer of intangible cultural heritage Zhang Zhonghai ancestor Zhang Bing, accidentally met the Qing Palace Imperial Kitchen chef friend Liu Yi, he opened a small roast chicken store in the town of Daogou Dajie Street, due to the production of the law, business is sluggish. 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 from the first pot, and so on, the older the better. Zhang Bing as the method, made the chicken really fragrant. From then on, business is booming, Bing Zhang named his roast chicken store "Yixing Zhang", which means "You Yixing Zhang". "Yixing Zhang" brand after playing, Zhang Bing repeated practice, in the selection of chicken, slaughter, support type, cooking, soup, fire, etc., to find out a set of experience. He is strict in the selection of chickens, to choose the tender chicken within two years to ensure the quality of chicken meat. Chickens should be kept for a period of time to eliminate tension and restore normal physiological functions, which is conducive to full bloodletting when killing chickens and does not affect the color of chickens. Dosing and cooking are the most crucial processes. Put the fried chicken in a pot, pair up the old soup, match the seasonings, boil it with martial arts fire, and then cook it slowly with civilized fire. The shape of the roasted chicken is even more original, after the chicken body is cut open, a section of sorghum stalks is used to hold the chicken open, forming a semicircle with two pointed ends, which is chic and beautiful. "Yixing Zhang" opened nearly three hundred years ago, Zhang Bing's roast chicken technology has been passed down from generation to generation, always maintaining a unique flavor, its color, aroma, taste, rotten is known as the "four best". Since then, Daokou Roast Chicken has been passed down from generation to generation, passing down both the family's best skills and the century-old soup. However, in the old society, due to the government's heavy taxes, the exploitation of the local powerful, the extortion of the rogues, so that Daokou roasted chicken suffered bad luck. Only after the liberation, Daokou Roasted Chicken was reborn and developed.

Practice

People love Daokou roast chicken, because it is rich in flavor, crispy and soft, salty and mildly palatable, cooked and rotten from the bone, fat and not greasy. And fresh out of the pot of roast chicken shaped like a treasure, golden color is particularly pleasant. These characteristics are easy to say, but do it is more difficult. Take the rich flavor of this point, Daokou roasted chicken need to use Chenpi, cinnamon, bean camp, Angelica dahurica, cloves, grass berries, sand nuts and ginger eight flavors of spices, you can not do without one. Crispy and soft is one of the reasons why Daokou is most popular. The procedure of cooking the chicken alone takes three to five hours, plus the adjustment of the fire, making the production technique very demanding. A well-made roasted chicken does not need to be cut with a knife, but with a gentle shake of the hand, the bones and the chicken meat are automatically separated. Needless to say is hungry, is after a full meal, it will also be mouth-watering. Daokou roast chicken has five good flavors, crispy and soft, salty and tasty, fat and not greasy characteristics. Eating does not need a knife cut, with a hand shake, flesh and bone that is separated from itself, no matter how hot or cold, the food are full of flavor. Xiangha network