When making or buying fragrant glutinous rice chicken, we don't know how big fragrant glutinous rice chicken to choose and how many grams of fragrant glutinous rice chicken is under normal consumption.
At present, the fragrant glutinous rice chicken on sale is generally 350 grams according to different brands and products. When we do it at home, we can also do it according to the specifications sold in the breakfast shop outside.
2. Is the fragrant glutinous rice chicken cooked or steamed?
Lotus-flavored glutinous rice chicken is a local specialty snack in Guangdong, China, which belongs to Cantonese cuisine. The preparation method is to put chicken, barbecued pork, ribs, salted egg yolk, mushrooms and other fillings into glutinous rice, then wrap them with lotus leaves and steam them in a steamer. The entrance of glutinous rice chicken is full of lotus leaf fragrance, which sticks to the teeth when chewing and has the meat flavor of chicken.
The fragrant glutinous rice chicken is usually steamed, and the fragrance of lotus leaves has a long aftertaste, which is in harmony with the fresh fragrance of chicken, so that the delicious food is fully displayed. Steam the cooked glutinous rice chicken on a low fire until the color of the lotus leaves darkens and the fragrance of the lotus leaves can be smelled, and then take it out for eating.
Of course, if you don't have a steamer, you can cook it, but boiling it in water will make the glutinous rice chicken less delicious and the fragrance of lotus leaves will not be brought into play. Cooking is generally not recommended.
Third, why is glutinous rice chicken called glutinous rice chicken?
The reason why glutinous rice chicken is delicious stems from this historical story:
It turns out that a long time ago, there was a chicken vendor in Pantang (that is, near Liwan Lake Park) who sold chickens across the street every day. One day, he plans to take the leftover chicken home and steam it for his family. He was about to put the prepared chicken on the plate when his hand slipped and broke the plate. Because people were poor at that time, there was only one dish at home, and they couldn't buy it immediately if it was broken. What should I do? So the chicken vendor put the cut chicken pieces into the rice cooker and steamed them with the rice. When he eats it, he feels delicious. So he had a brainwave and cooked this kind of steamed rice with slippery chicken for dinner every night. The result is very popular. Some diners suggested to him that it would be more delicious if the glutinous rice used for cooking was replaced by glutinous rice. So glutinous rice chicken was born. Restaurants near Pantang are also competing to imitate, and Pantang is rich in lotus leaves, so chefs wrap rice balls with lotus leaves and add various ingredients such as mushrooms, shrimp skins and salted eggs, which has evolved into today's Guangzhou cuisine.