Chicken plays a vital role and profound significance in the development of human history, but its status and value are often ignored.

But when it comes to eating chickens, China people have given them enough dignity and respect. Cut it in white, boil it in soup, wrap it in mud, and wrap it in naan. Sichuan Kung Pao Chicken, Xinjiang Saute Chicken, Guizhou Spicy Chicken, Guangdong Soy Chicken, Hainan Wenchang Chicken, Taiwan Province Sanbei Chicken ... Chickens born in China have defended the dignity of "a vast world with great potential" with actions.

most of the chickens that have been spoiled by fighting and eating chickens still stick to their original mission and become delicious dishes on the table, diligently providing cheap and high-quality animal protein for human beings.

After shooting a dozen cities in Grandma's Recipe, we found five chicken dishes to see how people in different places "eat chicken".

local chicken pot

"local chicken pot" is just a dish name of chicken, but there are many ways to extend and innovate just from the word "pot". This time, we only introduce two kinds of them: Hangzhou meijiawu dried bamboo shoots chicken pot and Zhejiang Jinyun Yanxia chicken pot.

These two local chicken pots have the same feature, that is, the local chicken have three chances to contact the chilly mountain spring water in the mountains: they are in deep contact when drinking, washing and stewing, so the chicken soup is delicious and sweet.

chicken pot with dried bamboo shoots

chicken pot with dried bamboo shoots is a famous dish in meijiawu. Except for free-range native chicken and dried bamboo shoots in Tianmu Mountain, the water used by local people to make soup is the village spring. It is said that the deepest spring reaches more than 1 meters underground, which is a "spiritual spring" hidden underground.

Using local native chicken, dried bamboo shoots from Tianmu Mountain, dried mushrooms and medlar, the stewed native chicken tastes fresh and smooth, dried bamboo shoots absorb the delicate flavor of chicken soup, and relieve the greasy taste of chicken. The soup is rich, so it's perfect to have a bowl of native chicken soup in winter.

ingredients

native chicken, dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms and medlar.

Practice

1. Wash the whole chicken with water.

2. After slightly cleaning the dried bamboo shoots, soak them in clear water for about 1 hour.

3. put the cleaned whole chicken into the casserole, then add the dried bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms and other ingredients, and pour in a proper amount of mountain spring water. After the ingredients are not used, add the salt after boiling in the pot.

4. Turn to low heat and cook slowly for about 2 hours. The stewed chicken soup can be served and enjoyed.

Jinyun Chicken Pot

Yanxia Village in Jinyun, Zhejiang Province, which is hidden in a valley surrounded by mountains, is a "fairyland" made of stones. The chickens here are all raised in the stone ditch alley.

They usually eat the insects in the forest and drink the spring water in the mountain stream. Freedom is their chicken creed. Of course, in their spare time, they will also "gather people to fight" and fight with each other, which can be regarded as a new era chicken with the development of morality, intelligence and body.

After two hours of stewing, the aroma of all the ingredients came together, which made a pot of thick chicken soup. Chicken is crisp but not rotten, and the meat is tender. Touching the chicken gently with chopsticks will "tear it apart". It is a big meal that makes people drool just by smelling it.

ingredients

chicken, ginger, shallots, medlar and salt.

Practice

1. Wash the processed chicken with mountain spring water.

2. Cut the washed chicken into appropriate sizes, and cut the ginger into large pieces for later use.

3. Stir-fry chicken and ginger.

4. Stir-fry the chicken pieces for about 3 minutes, add appropriate amount of salt, pour enough mountain spring water, and simmer for 2 hours.

5. after the chicken is put into the casserole, sprinkle a little medlar and scallion seedlings.

6. Cover the casserole, and the delicious local chicken pot can be served.

cuttlefish roast chicken

comes from Tianma town, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, and is a joint work of local native chicken and cuttlefish-cuttlefish roast chicken.

cuttlefish is delicious and nutritious. It has been recorded as far back as the Tang Dynasty, and it is a favorite delicacy. Chickens were domesticated by human ancestors more than 8 years ago and became good partners of human beings.

a kind of seafood, a kind of poultry, never thought that these two animals could collide with such a wonderful spark.

ingredients

one native chicken, 25g dried cuttlefish, light soy sauce, cooking wine and salt.

Practice

1. Remove the bones from the prepared dried cuttlefish, hold one end to expose the cuttlefish bones, and then peel off the bones.

2. soak the processed dried cuttlefish in hot water for 4-5 minutes.

3. Wash the chicken and cut it into pieces for later use.

4. The soaked dried cuttlefish needs to be cleaned. During the cleaning process, the eyes of the cuttlefish should be removed, and then the dried cuttlefish should be cut into strips with appropriate size to facilitate frying.

5. Heat the oil in a hot pot. When the oil temperature reaches 8%, you can put the cuttlefish in the pot and stir fry.

6. After the cuttlefish is stir-fried for 2 minutes, pour the chicken pieces into the pot and stir-fry together.

7. After the chicken is fried until it becomes discolored, add one spoonful of salt and five spoonfuls of cooking wine.

8, stir-fry until fragrant, and then add appropriate amount of water, without adding chicken.

9. Pour into the casserole, turn to low heat and stew for two hours.

Braised black-bone chicken with snails

The hardworking She people in Ningguo, Anhui Province are mostly self-sufficient for three meals a day. Black-bone chickens are raised in the mountains, and snails are fished in the water. "Black-bone chickens with snails" is a typical dish that they are self-sufficient and can eat all the scenery, and it is also the most popular health-care specialty.

Braised snail with black-bone chicken is a local specialty, and it is also a must-eat dish for children who are studying outside and coming back from work. Black-bone chicken is a good product to replenish fatigue and nourish the body. It can nourish yin and tonify the kidney. People call it a "baby with a black heart".

Braised black-bone chicken with snail made by pouring beer can soften connective tissue, make chicken tender, tender and tasty, and the snail meat is plump and delicate, with lips and teeth producing saliva, which will never be forgotten once eaten.

ingredients

black-bone chicken, snail, green pepper, pork, garlic and beer.

Practice

1. Chop pork belly into minced meat, clean and chop the processed black-bone chicken into pieces, slice ginger and pepper, and chop garlic and dried pepper for later use.

2. Brush the screw clean with a brush, cut off the tail of the screw with scissors (the second section of the screw tail spiral), blanch the screw for 2-3 minutes, then take it out and let it cool for later use.

3. Pick out the screw meat with a needle, pinch the head and remove the tail, and put the screw shell and nut aside for use; Plug the selected snail meat back into the snail shell, then plug it with minced meat, and cover the nut with your thumb and hold it down.

4. Cool the oil in a hot pan, pour in black-bone chicken pieces and add ginger slices and stir-fry for two minutes.

5. Pour in the right amount of soy sauce, then pour in the right amount of sugar and stir-fry for about one minute.

6. Sprinkle with garlic, pour in boiling water, then pour in the cooked snail and gently turn it twice

7. Simmer for about two hours on low heat, sprinkle with green pepper and stir-fry a few times before going abroad, collect the juice on high heat, and then shovel it into a small hot pot.

8. Add a tin of beer and simmer for 2 minutes.

pineapple goo-goo meat

The taste in southern China is sweet, and Taizhou, Jiangsu Province is no exception, such as pineapple goo-goo meat, a special food made from chicken breast.

this delicious dish is cooked with sweet and sour pineapple and chicken breast. As one of the most familiar Chinese dishes in Europe and America, it is often found in Chinatown restaurants outside China.

pineapple goo-goo meat is a very good appetizer with simple preparation and sweet and sour taste. Besides, it is a rare dish with colorful side dishes.

ingredients

chicken breast, pineapple, eggs, tomato sauce, starch, sugar, five-spice powder, ginger powder and white wine.

Practice

1. After washing the chicken breast, tear off the white fat layer on the corner.

2. Cut the chicken breast from the middle and cut it into dices about 1 cubic centimeter. Because the chicken breast is generally thick, it needs to be cut into thin slices to be diced.

3. Add a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of ginger powder, a spoonful of spiced powder and a spoonful of white wine to the chicken breast and stir evenly.

4. After peeling the pineapple, cut it into 1cm thick slices.

5. Put the pineapple meat in a bowl, add a spoonful of salt, and then soak it in boiling water for about 3 minutes.

6, gently break the egg shell, take out the egg white for later use, just two eggs.

7. Add a spoonful of starch and egg white to the marinated chicken breast, and then stir evenly.

8. When the pot is hot, pour in a proper amount of cooking oil and cover the bottom of the pot.

9. fry the chicken piece by piece in the pan until both sides are golden, and then take it out of the pan for later use.

1. When the oil temperature is 6% hot, put 3 tablespoons of sugar and 4 tablespoons of tomato sauce in the pot.

11. After the sweet and sour juice is boiled, pour the pineapple meat into the pot and stir fry for about 15 seconds.

12, chicken breast into the pot, stir-fry for about 3 seconds.

Chicken, as a "treasure" innocently dedicated to all mankind, can hardly escape in China. Eating in spring to dry, cooling off in summer, nourishing in autumn and tonic in winter, a bowl of chicken soup is the greatest comfort to life.