Today, I want to introduce a unique way to eat chicken legs: chicken legs with honey sauce.
Honey-soaked chicken legs have golden skins, and honey will be added when cooking. The chicken legs are bright and beautiful. Chicken leg with honey sauce is a member of Shandong cuisine. Shandong cuisine is similar to Japanese roast chicken legs, and the practice is similar. After the honey chicken leg is finished, it will be cut into pieces and put on a plate, then a bowl of rice and an upside-down plate will be served, and then some vegetables will be fried. I believe many children will like it.
People who see honeyed chicken legs will think that honeyed chicken legs must be made in an oven, but this is not the case. Chicken legs with honey sauce can only be cooked in ordinary pots. Just master the formula. The finished product is golden in color, fresh and juicy, and everyone can eat it, especially those with children at home. You can try.
Before making chicken legs with honey sauce, we should first choose chicken legs. Needless to say, chicken leg refers to the part from chicken feet to chicken legs. Chicken legs sold separately in the market are generally pipa legs, which are named after the same size and shape as pipa. However, the root of chicken wings is not strictly a chicken leg, but a part of chicken wings. They don't taste as tender as chicken legs. When buying chicken legs, be careful not to buy them wrong.
The practice of honey chicken legs: no oven, golden yellow, fresh and juicy.
[Required ingredients]:
Pipa has three legs.
[Basic components]:
4 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 3 tablespoons honey, 4 cloves garlic and a little salt.
[Production technology]:
First: Put the pipa legs in a bowl and soak them in clear water for half an hour. If it is a frozen pipa leg, thaw it first. Soaking in water can soak the blood in the chicken leg, remove the fishy smell of the chicken leg, and make the taste of the chicken leg more tender and smooth.
Second: after soaking in water, cut off one side of the chicken leg with a knife and take out the bones inside, but be careful not to cut off the whole chicken leg. Take out the chicken leg and make it into a whole piece.
Step 3, pat the back of the chicken leg with a knife, sprinkle some chicken, and then put it in a bowl to start seasoning. First, add 4 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, chopped garlic and a little salt, then add 3 tablespoons honey, knead the ingredients and seasonings evenly by hand, and put them in the refrigerator for 1 hour to 4 hours. -The longer it takes to marinate, the better it tastes. Of course, it can't be marinated for too long, which will make the chicken unpalatable. )
Fourth: after the chicken legs are marinated, add a small amount of cooking oil to the pot. Put the marinated chicken legs with chicken skin into the pot and fry them on low heat. After a few minutes, the chicken skin was golden and shiny. Then turn it over and fry it a little, and fry all the chicken legs. -It's best to fry the chicken skin for a while, and the meat in the chicken leg should not be fried for too long, so as not to make the chicken smell like firewood. )
Fifth: after the chicken legs are fried on both sides, add a small amount of water (and a small amount of sauce, don't throw it away) to the bowl where the chicken legs were marinated before, pour it into the pot, cover it and stew for about 3 minutes, turn off the heat when the soup thickens, and then take out the chicken legs and cut them into pieces. Overview of cooking technology of honey chicken leg;
(1) The role of honey in chicken legs
Honey is rarely used in China's diet. Many people think that honey will be salty, sweet and unpalatable when added to vegetables. In fact, honey chicken legs are as salty and sweet as braised pork, and they are delicious regardless of adding honey or sugar. After adding, it can help the meat become tender, and honey can brighten the color of the chicken leg, make the color of the chicken leg transparent and keep the chicken leg fresh and tender. Look at the roast chicken in Orleans. It can be found in chicken legs.
(2) Both frying and baking are acceptable.
I think the frying pan is too heavy to fry, so I can bake it in the oven. The oven needs to be preheated between 180 and 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. The baking time and temperature can be adjusted according to the actual situation of the oven. However, before entering the oven, the water on the surface of the chicken leg should be sucked dry, so that the chicken skin can be easily roasted until it is slightly oily, and the taste will be better, instead of a lot of water, but the taste is not fragrant.
(3) Honey drumsticks don't need much seasoning.
Chicken legs soaked in honey can be made into delicious chicken legs without too much seasoning as long as the fishy smell is removed. The first step of soaking will produce a lot of blood, and the smell will be greatly reduced. Garlic can be added. After frying in the pot, the smell of chicken legs will come out, so don't worry about the bad taste of chicken.
(4) Deep-frying chicken leg meat in a hot pot.
If there is a non-stick pan, it is best to fry chicken legs in a non-stick pan. The non-stick pan only needs to be brushed with a thin layer of cooking oil. The chicken leg itself will be very oily, but adding too much oil will be too oily. If it is an ordinary pot, pay attention to anti-sticking. First, heat the pot, add cold oil to heat it, then heat it with hot oil, let the remaining base oil moisten the pot, and then start frying the chicken legs with hot oil. This operation is not easy to stick to the pot.
(5) Why don't you need to add salt later?
In the curing process, salt, soy sauce and soy sauce were added to the chicken leg meat. The salt content of these seasonings is enough to make the chicken legs taste, and honey is also a kind of seasoning. Adding honey can sweeten the chicken legs again. Adding salt will be superfluous and will mask the taste of honey. Therefore, there is no need to add salt when cooking, so that salt can be used for water.
The chicken leg with honey juice tastes slightly salty and sweet, which is suitable for the public and has strong adaptability. The ingredients and tools used are very simple, and you can cook without an oven or complicated spices. People who are interested can try it.