When it comes to where people love to eat chicken most, many people will think of Guangdong Province, but Shandong people also love eating chicken very much. There are no less than a hundred ways to cook it, especially Dezhou Braised Chicken, which is the most famous. Chicken is a delicacy that we usually eat. Let’s take a look at the top 10 most delicious chickens in Shandong. Local people regard it as delicious and foreign diners praise it greatly.
1. Pijia Roast Chicken in (Yun)cheng County
Pijia Roast Chicken is a handed down product from a professional roast chicken family named Pi in Zifang Tomb Village, Houji Town, (Yun)cheng County. It not only enjoys a high reputation in (Yun) City, but also is exported to cities such as Beijing and Urumqi. Its color is red and bright, and the rich aroma of roasted chicken can be smelled from a few feet away when it is freshly cooked. Its outstanding characteristics are fresh, fragrant, tender and rotten, the taste is consistent inside and outside, and the taste is delicious. The traditional processing method is: first smear the raw chicken with honey, then fry it, then add condiments, put it into the fragrant soup and steam it, and it can be taken out of the pot after four or five hours.
2. Liaocheng Wei's Smoked Chicken
Wei's Smoked Chicken is a traditional local delicacy in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, with a bright black color and a fragrant aroma. Longshengzhai Wei's smoked chicken has a history of more than 200 years. Wei's smoked chicken is made from well-selected ingredients and carefully made. Smoked chickens are made from disease-free live chickens that are about one year old, plump in appearance, rich in meat, fat and tender, weighing 2 to 3 kilograms. They are first processed into braised chickens, and then cloves, star anise, cinnamon, fennel and other medicines are put into the abdomen. It is smoked by putting sawwood (wood chips) on fireworks.
3. Yanggu County Budai Chicken
Yanggu Budai Chicken is a local traditional food in Yanggu County, Shandong Province. It has a history of nearly a hundred years. The recipe is unique and it is famous for its soft and tender interior, fragrant filling, and delicious but not greasy taste. It is also known locally as "Luanfeng lays eggs". It was designated as "Famous Luxi Food" by the Liaocheng Consumers Association. Pour the original soup of the steamed chicken into a frying spoon, then add soy sauce, clear soup, egg flowers, water chestnuts, and wet starch to thicken it. After boiling, skim off the foam, then add scallion oil and MSG, mix thoroughly, and pour it over the chicken. The chicken is light red in color, tender and delicate, and fragrant.
4. Zaozhuang spicy chicken
Zaozhuang spicy chicken is a famous delicacy in southern Shandong and is deeply loved by consumers. The spicy chicken uses local free-range chickens and is paired with precious seasonings. Using traditional techniques and modern scientific formulas, it is carefully cooked. This product is delicious in color, appropriately spicy, tender and delicious, and has a unique flavor. It is a natural food and is suitable for all ages. Zaozhuang spicy chicken is fresh, spicy, fragrant, colorful and full of flavor. The tender chicken is stir-fried with a lot of fresh chili peppers and rice vinegar. Just thinking about it makes your mouth water.
5. Qingdao roasted chicken
Roasted chicken is one of the three roasted traditional dishes in Qingdao, Shandong. It was developed by a famous chef in Qingdao in the 1940s. This dish uses young chickens from that year, split into large pieces, fried in oil, and then roasted until mature. After the dish is ready, place it on the plate in the original shape of the chicken, pour the original juice over it, and serve it with lettuce, which has a unique flavor. It uses chicken and lettuce as the main ingredients, and the cooking is mainly grilled vegetables.
6. Shandong Cuisine Wine-flavored Chicken
Wine-flavored Chicken, a traditional famous dish, belongs to Beijing cuisine. It is golden and bright in color, soft and delicious in texture, and has a strong aroma of wine. It is well-known at home and abroad. Made with hens, chicken soup, cooking wine, etc. This delicacy inherits the classic techniques and taste of Shandong cuisine. Shandong cuisine pays attention to the quality of raw materials, salt to enhance freshness, soup to enhance freshness, and seasoning to emphasize the purity of salty and freshness to highlight the original taste. This delicacy is regarded as a delicacy by locals and praised by foreign diners after eating it.
7. Qishan Fried Chicken
Qishan Fried Chicken is a traditional famous dish in Laiwu, Shandong Province and belongs to Shandong cuisine. Red in color, dry and chewy, spicy and delicious. Qishan Fried Chicken attracts diners from all over with its mellow taste, simple and affordable style. Eating Laiwu fried chicken has become another beautiful sight in the current Laiwu catering market. Diners from other places must not miss this delicious food when they come here.
8. Laiwu Fried Chicken
Laiwu Fried Chicken is a traditional famous dish in Laiwu, Shandong Province and belongs to Shandong cuisine. Laiwu is located in the hinterland of central Shandong, commonly known as "Fengcheng". Laiwu people are very fond of chicken when entertaining guests. There is a local saying that "there is no banquet without chickens". There is a chicken on the dining table, which means good luck. It also shows respect for the guests. People in Laiwu eat chicken in many different ways, and they are very particular about it. Laiwu fried chicken originated in the 1980s and has a frying history of more than 30 years. Fried chicken has become a local treasure. Laiwu fried chicken respects traditional crafts and uses Free-range high-quality Laiwu black roosters are used as raw materials and are carefully prepared by famous chefs. It is ruddy in color, rich in nutrients, delicious and mellow in flavor, and has a finger-sucking aftertaste, making it a delicacy on people's tables.
9. Laoshan Mushroom Stewed Chicken
Laoshan Mushroom Stewed Chicken is a famous dish, one of the representative dishes of Qingdao, Shandong Province. It is made from local young roosters within one year and stewed with stock. . Chicken and Laoshan mushrooms are stewed together, which is delicious. Due to the special climate and water quality conditions in the Laoshan area, Laoshan pine mushrooms are soft, smooth and have a unique flavor. They can be regarded as top-quality fungi, especially in July and August. Also known as matsutake mushrooms, gallinopsis mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms, etc., Japan calls them matsutake mushrooms and they are valuable wild edible fungi. Matsutake mushrooms not only have excellent flavor and attractive fragrance, but are also nutritious edible fungi. They are known as the "King of Edible Fungi", no less than Hericium striata and Ganoderma lucidum, and are regarded as treasures especially in Europe and the United States.
10. Jinan Chicken Jinan Chicken is a traditional famous food in Jinan, Shandong Province. This dish is ruddy in color, tender and delicious, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes, and the flavor is very good. It has a history of 200 years and was founded by Qiluzhai Delicatessen. This dish inherits the traditional production method and achieves the characteristics of fine selection of ingredients, complete ingredients and fine cooking.