The first time I drank coconut chicken soup was in Sydney. My friend ALF from Guangdong made it for us. That's how Cantonese people make soup. Later, I always thought that I must cook coconut chicken soup at a certain place one day to relive that sweet mood.
The choice of ingredients is the key to making chicken soup. Yuan Mei, a great poet and gourmet in Qing Dynasty, is an expert in this field. He said in the menu with the garden that choosing materials is the key: "Everything is innate, such as people have their own talents. Human nature is stupid, although Confucius and Mencius teach, it is useless; Poor physical properties, although cooked in Yiya, but tasteless. Generally speaking, pigs should be thin-skinned and not smelly; Chickens should be bullied, tender, not old, not naive. "
Then when it comes to chicken, black-bone chicken, referred to as black-bone chicken, is the first choice. Flat and sweet. Has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away heat, nourishing liver and kidney, invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea. Its rich protein content is more than 1 times that of duck meat and goose meat. Its rich melanin can make red blood cells and hemoglobin in human body proliferate. Therefore, it has always been regarded as a nourishing top grade, and Li Shizhen also has a special description in Compendium of Materia Medica. Personally, I think another reason is that the black-bone chicken is tender (this is what Yuan Mei said). Compared with other chicken, it is delicious. I don't like rough old chicken. It tastes like chewing wax. I don't like hormone chicken in the factory either. Although some people call themselves "take the chicken", it is not easy for ordinary people to tell the truth from the false.
When it comes to the auxiliary materials of chicken soup, there are many. Mr. Yuan Mei also said, "Whatever is familiar must be supplemented. It is necessary to make the Qing dynasty match the Qing dynasty, the rich match the strong, the soft match the soft, and the rigid match the rigid, so that there is wonderful harmony. " Chicken soup needs to be light, generally sweet soup such as red dates, glutinous rice, gastrodia elata and coconut is better. When you get to the old coconut in the chicken soup, the sugar and nutrients in the old coconut are transformed into coconut meat. Coconut meat contains coconut milk and oil, which is rich in nutrition, fragrant and more effective. To sum up, coconut black-bone chicken soup is a masterpiece in chicken soup, black and white, nourishing and nourishing. Coconut black-bone chicken soup is a soup for women.
Making coconut chicken soup is not a simple process. Black-bone chicken should be carefully selected, poked into pieces of appropriate size after slaughter, carefully plucked chicken feathers, washed internal organs and cut off excess oil. Coconuts are the best in Hainan, because Hainan is the kingdom of coconuts, where coconuts grow freely and happily. This is a paradise for coconuts. There is no industrial pollution and the climate is suitable, which makes people feel refreshed. It is the hometown of longevity. ......
There is a trick to breaking coconuts:
First of all, you should drink coconut milk first. The method is simple: the coconut has three eyes in its pedicle (according to Hainan folklore, the coconut is the incarnation of the third prince of the Dragon King, and the head of the coconut shell has three points (two eyes and one mouth), which looks like a human face. The life span of coconut trees is similar to that of human beings, and coconut trees are accompanied by residential houses. Being regarded as a beautiful creature with human nature by local people, coconut shell products have the meaning of keeping safe), take a sharp knife and drill into the soft eyes. The bigger the hole, the better. Drill a hole and pour coconut milk into the bowl. At this time, the coconut juice is basically clear water, but it can be quoted, pure natural and pollution-free, with a faint coconut fragrance. Don't waste it It can be put into coconut milk to become the ingredient of coconut milk chicken soup.
Secondly, coconut meat is difficult to take out. Round coconut is actually very strong and not fragile. At this time, you need to put the coconut in a cloth bag, and then smash the coconut with an axe or knife back until it is smashed into seven or eight pieces. Putting it in a cloth bag has two advantages, one is hygiene, and the other is that coconut slices will not be splashed everywhere during the beating of coconut. After breaking, you can pry the coconut meat off with a blade. This process must be careful and patient. To slice coconut meat into thin slices, you can also use a juicer to squeeze coconut meat into hundreds of pulps if possible.
Coconut chicken soup practice:
1. Put coconut juice, coconut meat (or coconut milk), black-bone chicken, four or five slices of ginger, and a little red dates into cold water, add clear water and pour into the soup pot until the water is far enough to submerge the chicken (it will lose water after stewing for a long time), and bring to a boil.
2. After the water is boiled, simmer for half an hour, and then continue to simmer. The longer the better, but at least one hour.
After the pot is cooked, you can add salt to eat. Although the soup is sweet, you should add some salt, because Mr. Yuan Mei said that salt is the king of all things.
4, taste, the soup should be good, both the fragrance of coconut and the fragrance of black-bone chicken.
Hainan is a coconut kingdom. If you go to Sanya, my friend, you must bring back some old coconuts. Although it's not far, the chicken soup you cooked carefully with that coconut must be sweet and sweet. Wuji coconut soup is the soup of love, no less than roses, and even far more than roses and flowers. Not only because black-bone chicken has a special nourishing effect on women, not only because of the nourishing beauty of coconut meat, but also because of the beautiful and moving legend about coconut; It is also the patience, love and understanding of a better life through the process of selecting materials, processing and cooking soup. In fact, life is simple and beautiful everywhere. You can create beauty as long as you have the heart. As long as you are sincere, it will rain in Mao Mao if you send roses. In fact, many people don't believe what Chu Youcai said, thinking that Chu Youcai is always dreaming, but how can a person who doesn't even have a dream come true? Chu Youcai believes that one day he will give black-bone chicken coconut soup to his dear girl and dear mother. It must be that Chu Youcai carefully brought back from the romantic ends of the earth in Sanya for the first time to cook black-bone chicken coconut soup with love. Mom will be happy when she looks at it, and girls will laugh when they look at it.
Friend, don't say this is a dream, as long as you are willing to try, your dream can come true! As long as you are sincere, it will rain in Mao Mao when you send roses. The rose in the rain is no less than the rose in the British wind ... My friend, as long as the coconut black-bone chicken soup smells fragrant, life can become warm and romantic at any time.
It's winter now, young friends, please give your own black-bone chicken coconut soup to your mother and your beloved girl ... because that chicken soup is delicious soup of love!