how to stew chicken?
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how to stew chicken? Throw my answer first: there are two keys to stew chicken delicious. The first is to choose the ingredients, and the second is to grasp the cooking details.
Nutritional value of stewed chicken
Due to the development of society and the continuous improvement of living standards, it is no longer difficult to eat chicken. I remember that in the past, I could only enjoy the treatment of eating chicken on major festivals or when guests greeted me. Nowadays, eating chicken is a very common thing, and chicken has frequently appeared on the dining table of every family because it is easy to get and cook, and stewed chicken is a very high proportion of daily recipes at home.
well-cooked stewed chicken is crispy, fragrant and tender, and the soup is delicious, and the fat content of the chicken is low. The stewed chicken is rich in nutrition and suitable for all kinds of people.
According to my cooking experience for many years, there are two core factors to make the stewed chicken well:
First, material selection, so-called good material selection, less trouble in cooking. Good ingredients are the key to making a good food. It is no exaggeration to say that ingredients account for at least 7% of the decisive factors whether a good food is delicious or not. Therefore, cooking a delicious food has actually started from buying food. The same is true of stewed chicken. The core of stewed chicken is the chicken. If the chicken is bought, even if the technique is not particularly exquisite, the cooked chicken will not taste bad.
chickens should choose native chickens raised in the wild. This kind of chicken is fresh and fragrant because of its great exercise and compact meat quality, and it can eat a lot of weeds and vegetables in the wild. Due to the long growth cycle of wild chickens, the amino acid content in chicken is very high, which is the source of the delicious taste of chicken.
Don't choose tender chicken or Sanhuang chicken. These two kinds of chicken are suitable for frying, roasting and stewing.
then some students will ask, how to choose chickens? Needless to say, in the countryside, just looking for a chicken farmer to buy wild chickens, we are all close neighbors, and we won't lie to you if we know the roots.
In the urban vegetable market, the chicken feet are black, and the black chicken feet are black-boned chicken. However, these two kinds are easy to distinguish. Black-boned chicken is black all over and is mainly used for stewing soup. Choosing according to chicken feet is not a panacea, but it is also close.
There is a difference between raising wild chickens and raising wild chickens. Real wild chickens are hard to find, so it is good to choose wild chickens.
Because there are no live birds in the city vegetable market now, it is impossible to kill and sell them now, but don't choose those that have been frozen for a long time.
the second point: control the details. When stewing chicken, put as little seasoning as possible. Too much seasoning will mask the fresh flavor of the chicken itself, and the heat should not be too strong. Stew the chicken slowly with a small fire. Mushrooms are dried mushrooms, and the aroma of dried mushrooms will be more fragrant.
Let me share a method of stewed chicken with mushrooms that I often cook at home:
Stewed chicken with mushrooms ingredients:
Native chicken, dried mushrooms, salt, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, soy sauce, parsley, green pepper and red pepper (optional)
Method of making stewed chicken with mushrooms:
Step 1: Processing ingredients and cutting chicken into pieces. Soak mushrooms in water, and don't pour out the water soaked in mushrooms (this water is the water soaked in mushrooms after washing off the sediment, so don't pour the water containing sediment into it). Sliced ginger and garlic. Cut the pepper into pieces, cut the coriander into sections, and choose the big pepper, also called vegetable pepper, which is not spicy. You can also skip the pepper, which is not the key to this dish.
Step 2: Take the pan and add oil. The oil temperature should be high. When the pan is slightly smoky, the ginger and garlic are sauteed. When the ginger and garlic smell fragrant, cut the chicken pieces, stir-fry for 2 minutes, add cooking wine, stir-fry until the cooking wine smells fragrant, add mushrooms and stir-fry, add light soy sauce to taste, then pour in the water that soaks the mushrooms, sprinkle with salt, and boil.
Step 3: Start another casserole, pour a pot of boiled chicken with mushrooms into the casserole, simmer for 3 minutes on low heat, then add some Chili pieces, stir fry, stew for 5 minutes, sprinkle with coriander, and serve. Don't collect the juice too dry, leave some juice in the pot.
You see, it's such a simple and delicious thing to cook a delicious chicken stew. In fact, very few things are used. I always advocate simple cooking, fewer steps and less seasoning. With few steps, everyone can learn, and the practice is not troublesome, so you can do it at home. Less seasoning, not only to eat the fresh flavor of the ingredients, but also to eat healthier.
Tips:
1. Don't blanch the chicken. Many friends probably don't pay attention to this step. Blanched chicken will be very firewood, and chicken can only be blanched when stewing soup. It is estimated that some people will say that drowning will remove fishy smell. Don't worry, there are ginger and cooking wine, and good chicken is not fishy.
2. Use of seasonings: Don't put a lot of seasonings. Although seasonings are cheap and easy to get now, even the best seasonings can't compare with the natural taste of the ingredients themselves. Too much seasonings will only cover up the taste of the ingredients themselves.
3. Use of cooking wine: The purpose of using cooking wine is to remove fishy smell, and at the same time, cooking wine can bring a little wine aroma. However, it is skillful to use cooking wine. It is best to cook cooking wine when it is stir-fried in high temperature, so that it will produce a special wine aroma at high temperature. If the temperature is not enough, it will not taste like this. Be sure to wave this cooking wine before adding other seasonings.
I found this skill after trying it many times. You can also try it yourself, and you will find that the taste is quite different. Why do some friends say that a dish is too alcoholic? It is because the alcoholic taste has not volatilized.
4. casserole stew is more delicious. the advantage of casserole is that the temperature is more uniform, and the stewed chicken will taste better than that of wok stew.