Chicken is one of the most common meat ingredients in life. It can be paired with many ingredients to make delicacies, such as taro roasted chicken, mushroom stewed chicken, vermicelli roasted chicken, etc.

In places like Zigong, Neijiang and Luzhou in Sichuan, there is a very delicious home-cooked dish - fried chicken. "Small Fried Chicken" is a delicacy that we Sichuan people like to eat very much. It tastes very refreshing, the meat is tender and slightly spicy, and the aroma is rich. In Sichuan dialect: "It's very comfortable, but it's miserable." Have you ever tasted our Sichuan classic "Small Fried Chicken"?

"Small Fried Chicken" is a delicacy cooked with broiler chicken and wattle twigs as the basic raw materials. Making this dish has very high requirements for chicken, so baby chicken must be used. Other chickens cannot be made, mainly because the meat quality is very different, and the taste will be very different. After "Small Fried Chicken" is made, the chicken will taste delicious and tender. In addition to using baby chicken, "Small Fried Chicken" also requires the use of one of Sichuan's local specialties, "Er Jing Tiao", a green green pepper with a spicy taste that we Sichuan people like very much. A kind of chili pepper.

What kind of chicken is called a broiler?

Literally understood, a boy is a little boy with immature features, and a boy chicken is an immature rooster. Broiler chickens are young roosters that have been raised within 2 months and have reached about 2 to 3 kilograms. They have not been mated. In the past, there was a profession of "caponing" in rural areas, which specialized in castrating roosters at a very young age and raising them for several months. This kind of chicken was also called broiler chicken. Most of the broilers now are broiler roosters professionally bred by chicken farms.

Why do we use baby chicken to make fried chicken? The skin is soft and the chicken is tender, which is very suitable for stir-frying; other chickens cannot meet the soft and tender requirements. Therefore, those who make fried chicken will choose baby chicken.

Cooking method:

Main ingredients: one chicken about 2 pounds, 10 wattle sticks, and 4 small red peppers.

Seasoning ingredients: 3 cloves of garlic, 1 small piece of ginger, a little cooking wine, 3 pickled red peppers, 2 pickled peppers, a little cornstarch, an appropriate amount of soy sauce, a little balsamic vinegar, a little sugar, an appropriate amount of salt , a spoonful of MSG, a piece of cooked lard, and an appropriate amount of vegetable oil.

Preparation method:

①. Let’s clean the chicken first, clean the internal organs, pay attention to cleaning the chicken skin on the outside, and then chop it into small pieces. When chopping the chicken into small pieces, you can first cut it in half, then cut each half in half again, and finally chop it into very small pieces. Note: There is no need to remove the chicken bones, just chop them into small pieces together with the chicken.

②. Chop the garlic and ginger into fine pieces. Cut the pickled red pepper into small rings. Cut the pickled pepper into thin strips. Wash and cut two wattle sticks into circles. Wash the small red pepper and cut into rings.

③. Put the chicken in a basin, put the minced ginger into the chicken, add an appropriate amount of soy sauce, a little salt, an appropriate amount of cooking wine, mix well, and set aside.

④. Put the vegetable oil into the pot and fry until the aroma is fragrant. Then add a piece of lard to fry until the aroma is fragrant. Then put the chicken pieces into the pot and stir fry until the chicken changes color. Fry the bottom part. Some oil is exposed.

⑤. First put the garlic slices, pickled peppers and minced ginger into the oil in the pot and fry them until fragrant. Then fry them with the chicken for a while. After smelling the sour and spicy aroma, add the gordon powder and add Add an appropriate amount of soy sauce, a small spoonful of salt, a spoonful of MSG, a little sugar, a little balsamic vinegar, a little cooking wine, mix well, put it in the pot and stir-fry to taste.

⑥. After the chicken is stir-fried, we first put the two wattle strips rings into the pot and stir-fry for a while, then put the small red peppers into the pot and stir-fry for a while, remove them from the pot and put them on a plate.