Shikou roast chicken originated in Shikou Town, Dongying, Shandong Province, and is a famous food in northern Shandong. Shikou Town is located on the banks of the Yellow River and Bohai Sea, with a long history, rich products, extensive ingredients and developed commerce. Shikou roast chicken inherits the traditional techniques of Shandong cuisine, and absorbs the flavor of this dish. It is made of local varieties of chicken through slaughter, taking blood, depilating, cleaning the five internal organs, removing fishy smell, embryonic plate, seasoning six flavors, cooking and fumigation, etc. Because of its flavor characteristics of "mellow, crisp and delicious, mild and salty, heavy but not greasy, complete in nutrition, suitable for both north and south"
It is a new cultural fashion in the 21st century to visit the Yellow River Estuary, enjoy the charm of the river and taste the delicious roast chicken in Shikou.
production method
the production of Shikou roast chicken is divided into four steps: chicken selection and slaughter, cleaning and shaping, ingredient stewing and sugar barbecue, which seems simple but requires extremely high skills.
Chicken selection and slaughter
Chicken selection: Chickens with large live chickens and raised by farmers for about one year are selected for authentic Shikou roast chicken, instead of pure meat chickens. The feeding period of meat-eating chicken is extremely short, and hormones and antibiotics are widely used in the feeding process. Its meat quality is extremely soft, easy to turn into mud after stewing, sticky and tasteless, and the taste and healthy taste of Shikou roast chicken are self-evident.
Slaughter: Cut the trachea of a live chicken weighing about 15g, drain the blood, scald it with hot water at about 65℃, remove chicken feathers, peel off the old skin of legs, mouth and claws, then cut it open from the buttocks, remove the internal organs and drain the blood.
Cleaning and shaping
Roll up the chicken's legs, insert the paws into the abdomen, cross the right wing out of the mouth, connect the chicken head with the right wing into a whole, arch the chicken neck, and point the left wing at the root of the wing. The whole roast chicken is restrained, solemn, generous and beautiful.
ingredients stew
before stewing Shikou roast chicken, put an iron grate at the bottom of the pot to prevent the pot from being burnt, then discharge the processed chicken into the pot according to the age and tenderness, and mix it with soup to prevent the chicken from floating. When cooking, cook it with strong fire, simmer with low fire, and simmer with floating oil and gas for 4 to 5 hours. During this period, there should be a special person waiting to master the heat. There is a secret of long red-cooked chicken: "If you want to roast chicken, add eight ingredients and soup stock". Eight condiments are tangerine peel, cinnamon, cardamom, galangal, clove, Amomum villosum, Amomum tsaoko and angelica dahurica. Soup stock is the old soup for cooking chicken. Every time you cook a pot of chicken, you must add the old soup of the pot, and so on, the older the better. The first store of Shikou roast chicken has a history of more than 2 years, and the skills of the old soup are passed down from generation to generation. The chicken made is really fragrant, and the old soup can be described as the trick and essence here.
BBQ with sugar
Take out the stewed cooked chicken and drain the soup. Put the iron grate on the top of the iron pot, place the cooked chicken neatly on the iron grate, add white sugar and brown sugar to the bottom of the pot in proportion, heat with fire to make the sugar burn, barbecue the cooked chicken and color it, and taste it again.
The Shikou roast chicken made in this way is a nutritious food with high protein and low fat. It has a complete and beautiful appearance, golden and red color, soft and palatable meat, and always maintains a unique flavor. Its color, fragrance, taste and rottenness are called "four unique", and it has the functions of appetizing, tonifying kidney and helping digestion.
product features
Shikou roast chicken is fat but not greasy, delicious in color, and you don't need a knife to eat it. When you shake it with your hand, the flesh and blood will separate by yourself. No matter whether it is hot or cold, it is full of fragrance, and it is still mouth watering when you aftertaste it.
Shikou roast chicken sales
Shikou roast chicken has dozens of stores in Shikou town, each with its own characteristics, and has sales outlets all over the city.
At a time when everyone laments that there is no safe, green and safe food, Shikou Roast Chicken will adhere to the principle of "safety, green and health" and offer real human delicacies to people who love food all over the world. Welcome new and old customers to taste and buy.
information source: Wen/Tu/Shikou Town