When the weather is cold, there will be stalls for sugar-fried chestnuts on the street, and waves of hot air will float on the street with the aroma of chestnuts, which smells fragrant and tastes more fragrant.
Chestnut sparerib chicken feet soup
Chestnuts can be used not only as snacks, but also for cooking. In Guangdong, chestnuts will be used to make soup, and in Fujian and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, chestnuts will be used to make chestnut braised chicken.
Today, my uncle will teach you how to cook chestnut braised chicken at home. This home-cooked dish is very soft and glutinous, with a fragrant smell, the fragrance and sweetness of chestnut, and the smell of chicken, which is very suitable for autumn.
Southern chestnuts and northern chestnuts
The key ingredient of this dish, besides chicken, is chestnuts, and the selection of chestnuts is very important for the cooking of this dish.
Chestnut originated in China and was recorded in The Book of Songs more than two thousand years ago. It is one of the earliest nuts eaten in China, and chestnut is also in the forefront of the world in terms of nutrition and quality.
Therefore, you must buy domestic chestnuts. Domestic chestnuts are divided into southern chestnuts and northern chestnuts. How to distinguish and choose them?
Chestnuts in the north are small in size, soft and waxy in taste and high in sugar content, which are suitable for snacks such as sugar fried chestnuts. Southern chestnut is big, with low sugar content and hard taste, which is suitable for cooking, so if you buy stew, it is recommended to choose Southern chestnut.
Stewed chicken with chestnuts
Materials need to have:
200g chestnut, 500g chicken, chicken soup or clear water.
Peanut oil, soy sauce, soy sauce, salt, sugar, oyster sauce, ginger slices, cooking wine, onion.
Tip: If you want to buy chestnuts with shells, you need to cut a hole horizontally with a knife, blanch it in cold water, and then take it out to remove the shell and coat. There are shelled chestnuts in the supermarket, which will be more convenient.
Detailed practice
1. In hotels, chicken is usually fried first, but it is not necessary to do so at home. Chicken must be fresh enough so that the food will be delicious.
Add a little oil to the pot, heat it, add ginger slices and onion slices and stir-fry until fragrant, then add chicken and stir-fry, and add cooking wine to remove fishy smell and enhance fragrance after the chicken changes color.
2. After the chicken is fragrant, add soy sauce and soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and salt, continue to stir fry, and then add a proper amount of chicken soup or water, not too much water, almost drowning the chicken.
3. After the fire boils, add the chestnuts, cover the pot and simmer for 15-20 minutes, then turn on the fire to collect the soup.
This dish is ready. The finished product is golden yellow and brightly colored. It tastes sweet like chestnuts, and the soft waxy starch is very tender. Very delicious.