Historical allusion of Cao Cao's chicken: During the Three Kingdoms period, after Cao Cao unified the entire north, he wanted to fight Sun Wu, so he personally led his troops south.

When the troops came to the Luzhou area, Cao Cao's headache suddenly broke out. At this time, Cao Cao was in great pain and bedridden, and the troops could not move forward.

In this case, a local man presented Cao Cao with a secret recipe and promised that Cao Cao would get results after eating the secret recipe.

So the army cook caught a local chicken based on this secret recipe and cooked it according to the ingredients in the recipe.

After Cao Cao ate it, his body recovered quickly. After that, he often asked his chef to cook this delicacy.

Later, this dish spread quickly in the Hefei area and was named "Cao Cao Chicken". Some people also called this delicacy "Xiaoyao Chicken".

In fact, the cooking method of "Cao Cao Chicken" is relatively simple. If you want to try it, you can make it yourself.

First of all, we need to prepare the ingredients and prepare a pullet of about two kilograms. Then we need to process the hen, remove the internal organs, clean it and put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry.

After drying, we spread a layer of honey on the muscles, then put them in a pan and fry them until golden brown.

Then we prepare a casserole, put the whole fried chicken into the casserole, and then put ingredients in it, such as some mushrooms, pepper, cinnamon, green onions, ginger, winter bamboo shoots, eucommia, gastrodia elata, fennel, etc.

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In order to make this delicacy more delicious, we can add some white wine or rice wine to it, then add an appropriate amount of water, cover the lid and bring to a boil over high heat. After walking away, turn to low heat and simmer slowly for about an hour.

After the time is up, don't open the lid in a hurry. You need to continue to simmer for 5 hours, so that the flavor will be more delicious.