Method 1

Ingredients: half tender chicken (450g), 150g chestnuts with skin removed, two fresh red bell peppers, 1 whole garlic clove, 20g ginger slices, two green garlic cloves.

Working ingredients: 2 tbsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp oyster sauce, 1 tbsp cooking wine, 1 cup chicken broth.

Making: chicken washed and chopped into small pieces, red pepper cut into small pieces, garlic peeled with whole ginger sliced sliced green garlic cut into segments; shelled and peeled chestnuts first boiled in cold water, boiled and then boiled for 5 minutes to drain the water. Heat 2 tbsp oil in a wok and sauté the chestnuts until the surface turns golden brown.

In the remaining oil, add ginger and garlic and sauté. Add the chicken pieces and stir-fry. When the chicken pieces turn golden brown on the surface and the meat is visibly reduced in size. Pour in 1 tbsp cooking wine and cook until dry. Add in the sauteed chestnuts.

Put in all seasonings and 1 cup of chicken stock. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to low and cook, covered. Cook on low heat, covered, until water runs out. Stir in green garlic and red bell pepper. Stir in green garlic leaves and cook until done.

If you buy large chestnuts, you can cut them in half so that they don't get soft enough when you cook them; wild chestnuts, also known as chestnuts, are the best ingredient for chicken stew.

It is best to use an iron pot to stew, if not, use a sand pot. It should first be brought to a boil over a high fire, and when the white air has risen, the communication should be changed to a low fire. Then give it a lid. Then the aroma will start to produce, at first it is the meat aroma, slowly there is the sweet smell of chestnut, then the sweet aroma of chestnut, wait until the aroma is getting stronger and stronger, the sweetness and nutrition of chestnut will all enter the chicken meat, especially the chicken bone marrow. Such chestnut stewed chicken is called chestnut stewed chicken.

Method 2

Chestnut stewed chicken

Raw materials

Chicken (whole) 1, 250 grams of chestnuts, auxiliary color pepper 1, seasoning salt 6 grams, half a green onion ginger 4, a slice of garlic in the right amount of star anise, 2 dry chili pepper, 4 wine, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in the right amount

Practice

1. Cut a cross in the top of the chestnut;

2. Pour boiling water into the chestnut, not over, add salt;

3. Cover the pot with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes;

4. Remove one by one to peel the chestnut meat;

5. Running the chicken washed, drained;

6. Chopped into chunks, blanched with hot water to remove blood and impurities;

7. . Fish out and rinse with hot water, drain and spare;

8. start the frying pan, stir fry chestnuts on slow fire to brown and remove;

9. pan bottom oil explosion incense onion, ginger and garlic, star anise and dry red chili;

10. after the aroma, into the chicken pieces of high-flame stir-fry, cook the wine;

11. add no more than the hot water, high heat to boil, turn the heat to simmer;

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12. to the chicken 7 minutes cooked, add chestnuts, add salt, sugar, soy sauce seasoning, a little soy sauce color;

13. stew until the chicken and chestnuts are cooked, high heat juice, add bell peppers stir-fry evenly can be out of the pot.

Chestnuts have enjoyed the "king of dried fruits", "hardcore crops" and other beauty, produced in the territory of the mountainous areas. Varieties of chestnut, oil chestnut, rice chestnut, chestnut, hair chestnut, chestnut (a rounded small chestnut) and so on. Chestnut flesh yellow and white, crisp and sweet, nutritious. Chestnut stewed chicken, duck, unique flavor. Tang Dynasty physician Sun Simiao said: "Chestnut, kidney fruit, kidney disease should eat." .

Peel chestnut skin, first use a kitchen knife to cut a knife in the center of each chestnut, and then put them in a basin, pour boiling water, soak for about ten minutes, the skin is all peeled off, and even inside the layer of hairy thin skin is also off, that is, it does not come off clean, it is also easy to tear it off.