Is the boiled chicken boiled or steamed?
Boiled chicken is neither boiled nor steamed, but soaked and boiled.
The white-cut chicken made in this way is delicious and tender, and the chicken itself is also very nutritious. The reason why you don't need to cook is to avoid the problem of chicken flavor aging caused by too long time.
Can boiled chicken be cooked in 30 minutes?
Mainly depends on the size of the chicken. Generally speaking, 3 kilograms of chicken can be soaked for 25 minutes. Smaller chickens can be soaked for a short time, and older chickens can be soaked for a long time.
Soaking method of white-cut chicken
When soaking, add salt, ginger and onion to remove the fishy smell. In addition, the soaking time of boiled chicken should not be too long, otherwise the meat will get old and become firewood. Before the chicken is put into the pot, it must go through "three lifts and three releases" to let the cold water in the chicken be discharged. After three lifts, the temperature of the chicken will be consistent with the water temperature. Then soak the chicken completely in water. Generally speaking, 3 kilograms of chicken can be soaked for 25 minutes. In the process of soaking, the chicken must be fished out once, and the water inside the chicken must be drained, and then the soaking is continued.
Boiled chicken: old chicken or tender chicken?
It is suggested to use 9-month-old chickens for making white-cut chicken, and try to choose native chickens, such as Sanhuang chicken and Qingyuan chicken.
This kind of chicken is golden yellow when cooked, which not only has a good face value, but also has a relatively firmer meat quality and a great taste.