Bucket chicken is a particularly delicious Kaifeng dish. Hen is usually used as the main ingredient, which is not only nutritious, but also easy to digest, so it is loved by people. In fact, the practice of bucket chicken is very simple, and it can be completed in only eight steps. However, it should be noted that the shape of bucket chicken is very important, and the chicken must be rounded before cutting.

1. Details of ingredients

1,5 grams of hen, 1 grams of pepper, 1 grams of star anise, 2 grams of salt, 6 grams of yellow rice wine, 7 grams of green onion and 5 grams of ginger

2. Methods of barrel chicken

1. Slaughter hens, molting, eviscerating, washing, chopping off claws and removing them.

2. Then open the mouth from the back of the neck, take out the crop and rinse it clean;

3. Two thighs are broken from the roots and tied with ropes;

4. Illicium verum is wrapped with gauze;

5. first, put some pepper and salt in the chicken belly and shake it to make the salt and pepper evenly soaked;

6. Fold the washed lotus leaves into pieces 6 cm long and 3 cm wide, and insert them from the knife edge to support the chicken tail;

7. Hold the lotus leaf at one end and the chicken back at the other end with a straw stalk to round the chicken;

8. Set fire to the pot of white brine soup, boil and skim. First, rinse the bucket chicken, tighten the skin, then put it into the pot, add star anise, yellow wine, onion, ginger and soup, bring to a boil, simmer on slow fire for about half an hour, and take it out.

Third, the nutritional value

The content of protein is high, there are many kinds, and the digestibility is high, so it is easy to be absorbed and utilized by the human body, and it has the functions of strengthening physical strength and strengthening the body. Female chicken contains phospholipids that play an important role in human growth and development, and is one of the important sources of fat and phospholipids in Chinese diet. Female chicken has a good therapeutic effect on malnutrition, chills, fatigue, irregular menstruation, anemia and weakness.