In some farmers in Siyang, every wedding, birthday, building a house and other red and white weddings, banquets are mostly eight bowls and eight dishes of crispy chicken heads. In the eight bowls, fat chicken is essential. Fat chicken is also called crispy chicken. Because this dish is the first dish in eight bowls, people also call it the first dish. The preparation of the first course is very learned: less starch is easy to disperse, and more starch is easy to board. The guests evaluated the level of tables and seats as well as the chef's skill. Often take the first course as the standard.
The ingredients and production methods of fat chicken are very particular. Chopped fat sauce and peeled cooked yam sauce are used as the main ingredients, and then special condiments such as shrimp, egg white, starch (mung bean powder is the best) and refined salt are added as the surface layer (ginger is the best juice, onion and garlic are white stalks, and white pepper is the best white); Then use lean pork paste (civil chicken paste), egg yolk (crab yolk is better), appropriate amount of steamed bread crumbs (for fun), lake, rice flour, salt, ginger, onion and other condiments to stir evenly as the bottom layer. Then, lay hundreds of pages (also called thousands of pages) in the steamer as the bottom protection. Spread the bottom ingredients about one inch on the hundred pages, and then spread the top ingredients evenly. The top is white jade, and the bottom is reddish brown, about two inches thick. After steaming, cut into 3-inch long pieces or extra 3-inch cubes for later use.
There are also two ways to eat fat chicken: one is to buckle the bowl and the other is to burn it in bulk. The way to buckle the bowl is to cut the fat chicken into the shape of the turtle's back at the mouth of the big bowl, and add soup and seasoning. From the appearance, it looks like a complete big steamed bun. With a flick of chopsticks, the pieces are separated. The other is loose-burning, that is, the fat chicken is cut into squares or thin slices, mixed with spinach (or vegetables), ginger, onion and other condiments, put into a pot to boil, and then put into a bowl. Its characteristics are: the combination of green, red and white is very beautiful and really pleasing to the eye.