Lemon Chicken is also called Dai Ghost Chicken in Yunnan, a dish named after the Dai family who kills a chicken for worship during traditional festivals. Although the name of the dish is more or less a little weird, but this dish because of the addition of Yunnan's unique green lemon and millet spicy so full of flavor, in recent years has been gradually accepted and loved, slowly developed into a representative of the Yunnan cuisine of the Netflix dishes. This way of eating chicken, first boiled and then cold, maximizes the freshness of the chicken and reduces the seasoning, so it is really different in terms of taste.

When it comes to lemon chicken, lemons are definitely essential, but instead of the usual yellow lemons, it's the more acidic and juicier limes that are used, and this tiny twisted lemon fruit is the secret to the lemon chicken's full flavor. The presentation of the dish is not only very filling in terms of flavor, but visually it can instantly ignite the taste buds, with the white chicken and red chili pepper rings with lemon, making you want to eat it right away.

Lemon chicken

One, the origin of lemon chicken

Yunnan region because of the special geographic conditions, so the year-round temperature difference is not big, in the Dehong and other places near the tropics in the four seasons are relatively hot, so people prefer to eat spicy and sour flavor things. As the sacrifice of each family to kill chicken boiled after making offerings, boiled chicken meat has no flavor, so how to eat the chicken after the offerings has become a big problem.

In the early days, some families would simply return the boiled chicken to the pot, but found that this would age the meat and the fresh sweet flavor would be lost. It is said that later a Dai family, kill the chicken sacrifice day just home have just picked back the lemon and chili, cooking Dai aunt tried to cool the chicken, a mix really delicious. The Dai people like to eat acid, she squeezed some lemon juice, I did not expect the lemon fragrance to the cold chicken injected soul.

Then this way of eating slowly spread, the Dai people on the use of some fresh spices can be said to be gifted, so it is inevitable in this dish to add some special spices, but some people do not have the means to accept this spice to bring the taste of the punch, so later in the process of improving the replacement of cilantro, which is easy to accept, but also has a distinctive flavor.

The improved Dai Lemon Chicken is so slowly becoming popular that it has become a favorite appetizer, which is found in local restaurants when you travel to Yunnan

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