Chinese people love to do in the name of the article, and foreign dishes to name favorite to generalize, directly to the ingredients and cooking methods expressed as a dish is not the same as the Chinese people dishes always have an unforgettable name. For example, "boiling water cabbage", you want to study "boiling water" is what water, such as "Buddha jumped over the wall", what dishes can make Buddha want to "over the wall! "I don't know, but I'm not sure.

But some Chinese dishes, and like to give people a flag. With the "Chongqing Chongqing chicken pot" in terms of the vast majority of people hear this dish, in the subconscious think that this dish from Chongqing, but Chongqing people but do not think so, in Chongqing, you can see a street full of hot pot franchise, rather than Chongqing chicken pot store.

Chongqing Chongqing Chongqing chicken casserole this name from where exactly? According to the research, the origin of this dish and the argument is different, in short, and Chongqing is not very relevant, or even can be said to be irrelevant. The following is a list of four points of origin, we can see which one is very reliable.

One, called Chongqing people created Chongqing chicken pot

The most common one said, is a Fujian called Zhang Chongqing, this person to Shanghai to start their own business, from Shanghai home, made out of Chongqing chicken pot due to the taste is good, the guys ate detailed pot pot pot after a lot of sweating, and thus the Chongqing chicken pot better and better, and ultimately hung to the name of the Zhang Chongqing, has become the "Chongqing Chongqing Chicken Pot", "Chongqing Chicken Pot". "Chongqing Chongqing chicken pot".

Two, Chongqing chicken pot from Sichuan

Chengdu, Sichuan is known as the hometown of food, leisure capital, food culture is also a long way. The distance between Chengdu and Chongqing is a little closer, so the two places have a similar sense of population, do out of the dish is also more of a combination. Chongqing cuisine to pay attention to the taste and texture of the dish, open-minded and generous, Chengdu cuisine to Chongqing cuisine to improve a little bit of excellence, renewed the dish color, aroma and taste.

Originally, Chongqing people cooking chicken breast meat, are the whole chicken, a whole Chao Tianjiao together in the pot to stir-fry, after the improvement to become a little bit of the earth with the release of a number of months big rooster, put into the Sichuan material and auxiliary vegetables, put into the pot of oil explosion. The original aroma of the rooster meat combined with the flavor of Sichuan peppers is unforgettable. Subsequently, this improvement of the chicken breast was also Chongqing chefs learned to go, the pot into a pot, Sichuan material for hot pot soup, the name is "roasted chicken", after the improvement of Chongqing Chongqing chicken casserole.

Three, Chongqing chicken casserole is to improve the dish

Chongqing does not Chongqing chicken casserole, but there is roast chicken. A chef will be Chongqing's roasted chicken and other regions of the dry pot chicken combined together, to complement the shortcomings of the improvement of the dish made of mellow soft and tender, the entrance to the sense of thick the hottest dishes, the taste can also be made according to the customer's requirements more spicy, medium spicy, medium spicy, burst spicy and other four flavors.

Four, Chongqing chicken casserole from "Jigong live Buddha casserole"

There is a legend that in the early Southern Song Dynasty, there is an upside-down monk Jigong live Buddha, satirizing the Qin Hui, and then driven out of the Central Plains. Jigong living Buddha then rushed to Chongqing, was attracted to Chongqing's good wine and meat. Originally a Buddhist disciple who loved good wine and food, Jigong Living Buddha learned a lot of Chongqing people's way of cooking after visiting Chongqing for some time.

One day, the Jigong living Buddha purchased the local people love to eat Chaotian pepper, pepper and a variety of spices, looking for a piece of flat ground, propped up a pot gradually cooking chicken, in the pot into a variety of spices, chicken breast boiled, sweet and savory, causing a group of people closely around, but also some people want to learn this one chicken. Jigong living Buddha inadvertently left a "Jigong living Buddha pot" in Chongqing, long passed into the "Chongqing chicken pot".

This Chongqing Chongqing chicken casserole from where exactly, now can not be clear, about the origin of Chongqing chicken casserole there are many points of view, I do not know you feel more reliable is which one?