Chicken is a kind of meat that people eat most often besides pork, and it is also a source for people to get protein. The protein content of chicken is high, which is similar to that of beef, and the frequently eaten chicken breast is as high as 24.6g/ 100g.

And now the price of chicken is much lower than that of pork. Chicken is more than ten yuan a catty, while pork is as high as 40 yuan a catty. Pork is not as nutritious as chicken. Pork is high in fat, while chicken is low in fat and high in protein.

Nowadays, chicken is cheap because of its high yield. The so-called broilers are chickens that are slaughtered in about 2 months, and the time from birth to slaughter is very short. Such chickens are called broilers. But you know what? In fact, many broilers are roosters, because the rooster has a high meat yield, and the rooster can be converted into more meat with the same feed. Therefore, broilers are generally roosters, while hens, as laying hens, are used to produce more eggs. So the chicken we buy in the supermarket is generally male chicken, and the chicken we usually eat is also male chicken.

For example, the braised chicken you eat is probably male chicken, so where is the female chicken?

Because the taste of female chicken is different from that of male chicken, male chicken is tender and suitable for dry frying, braising and stewing, while female chicken is firewood and high in fat, so it is suitable for stewing soup.

Generally, we stew chicken soup, which is called old hen soup, because hens are used to lay eggs, and when they reach a certain age and don't lay eggs, they are slaughtered, but the old hen tastes too firewood, so it is only suitable for stew soup.

Old hen stew is very nourishing. People who are weak after operation, parturient, the elderly, etc. can often drink old hen soup, because the old hen soup is rich in nutrition, and most of the nutrition of female chicken is water-soluble and easy to absorb after drinking.

Only then did I know that there was such a big difference between the female chicken and the male chicken. Their practices were different and their nutritional values were different. Don't make any mistakes in the future.

When cooking chicken, you should also pay attention to it. If it is fried chicken, dry roast chicken, braised chicken, etc., it is best not to blanch it, because the meat becomes old and the taste becomes worse after blanching. You can choose to marinate, add some seasoning to cover up the fishy smell, and keep it fresh and tender.

If you stew chicken soup, it is best to blanch it to remove the fishy smell, and then stew it in the pot. The stewed chicken soup is not greasy and delicious.