In rural Zhejiang, every Lunar New Year, almost every household will have this dish on the table. The original method is to treat the whole chicken clean, cook until the chicken is off the bone, cut into small pieces, and then marinate with Shaoxing wine for two days, so that it is tender and refreshing, the wine is fragrant, or with Chinese herbal medicines can cook a delicious and healthy medicinal food dish.
Today's practice is slightly different from the original, the ingredients are mostly boneless chicken thighs instead of whole chicken, cooked and marinated with Shaoxing wine before being sliced and eaten. If the drunken chicken is pickled with liquor rice wine or sorghum wine, it is spicy and choking, so it can only be pickled with Shaoxing wine of yellow wine. Because this chicken is drunk with Shaoxing wine, it is called Shaoxing drunken chicken.
———— Keqiao Daily, "The Origin of Shaoxing Drunken Chicken"
The first time I ate drunken chicken, it was at my grandmother's house, a mouthful of refreshing chicken skin and tender chicken with sweet flower carvings, and eating cold cuts in the summer was a different feeling.
However, the most recent time I went to my grandmother's house and ordered a drunken chicken again, not only did it have no wine taste, but the chicken meat was very woody. After eating and going home, I had the idea of doing it myself.
Flipping through a lot of recipes, I found that it was also drunk chicken, and the methods were particularly numerous. Finally, I watched a Youtube teaching video of a Cantonese cuisine teacher, and after combining a traditional drunken chicken recipe to improve it, there was the "flower carving drunken chicken wing" introduced today.
This recipe is not considered to be the authentic "flower carved drunken chicken", in addition to the fact that I did not use the whole chicken, the cooking technique, the seasoning used is also a little different, so this dish is an improved version, Cantonese style "flower carving drunken chicken wing".
Finished product first
<h1>What is the difference between Shaoxing wine, rice wine and flower carving? </h1>
The small partners in the Pearl River Delta may be relatively unfamiliar with Shaoxing wine, yellow wine, and flower carving. When you often visit the supermarket, you will see Shaoxing wine, rice wine or flower carvings, but the appearance seems to be similar, so how to buy it when you buy it? Rice wine is a kind of brewing wine, the origin of rice wine in China's Zhejiang, Hubei Fangxian, Jiangsu Nantong region, Shaoxing wine is one of the representatives. Shaoxing wine refers specifically to rice wine produced in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, China.
The flower carving refers to the high-quality wine in Shaoxing yellow wine, mainly produced in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Flower carving wine is a semi-dry type of rice wine, and the general brewing time takes more than three years. Flower carving wine is soft in wine, the wine color is orange and yellow, the wine is rich and fragrant, and the wine taste is sweet and mellow.
What brands should I choose to buy flower carvings? At present, the more well-known Shaoxing wine brands in Shaoxing are Guyue Longshan, Shen Yonghe, Daughter Hong, JianHu, Tapai, Huijishan and so on. The flower carving we bought this time is Jian Hu, although the taste is not as strong as hundreds of bottles of aged flower carving, but it is still OK. Of course, if the father at home has a collection of aged flower carvings, you may wish to try it to see if the taste is really very different.
<h1>Where do I buy chicken wings? </h1>
At present, the recipe issued, chicken wings account for the highest proportion, I don't know at the end of the year, can be put together into a chicken wing column recipe. Many friends asked me where I bought my chicken wings, how much was a pound, why I shot out chicken wings so big, and whether I had ever been beautiful.
I can tell you with certainty that there is no beauty ever hahaha. Buying chicken wings is also a little skill, I generally do not buy directly in the market, because the chicken wings sold in the market will not only be a little more expensive, even if it is a chicken wing of the same price grade, relatively small, more blood and water, and often encounter broken chicken wings.
I bought fresh chicken wings, I heard that it is the same KFC, I don't know if you have this brand in the market. In the past two years, I have eaten about 20 pounds of chicken wings of this brand, and I have changed others in the middle, but the size and quality are not stable, so I have been buying this brand later.
Now the price of a certain east is about 23-25 a pound (the price seems to be very expensive, but the special price is generally 199-100 or 199-80), recently I bought three packs, the average pound is 23 pieces, compared with the same price in the market, the size is estimated to be about one-third larger, the taste will be better, and the blood and water are not so much, and it is convenient to deal with.
I have to say that the general price of chicken wings has risen this year, and although the market price does not look like it has risen, the size and quality are obviously not as good as last year. At this time last year, the same bag of chicken wings was about 20 pieces a pound.
<h1>Required documents - for two people</h1>
Chicken wings – 10
Salt – 1 teaspoon
Spring onion - 2 sticks
Ginger slices – 2-3 slices
Peppercorns - 1 handful (special thanks to Mengyue classmates from Yunnan to send green peppercorns and peppercorns)
Cinnamon – 1 small piece (forgot to weigh emmm)
Grass fruit – 1 grain
Star anise – 2 capsules
Bay leaves – 2 pieces
Flower carving wine - 300ML
Chicken soup – 300ML
Rock sugar – two teaspoons (no rock sugar, sugar is fine)
<h1>Production steps</h1>
01 Handle chicken wings
Soak the chicken wings in tap water to thaw, and after thawing, squeeze out the blood and water inside the chicken wings.
Because it is a cold cut, if the blood is not squeezed clean, there will be a faint fishy smell when eating. Chicken wings can be left unpicked, but make sure they are completely thawed.
02 Boil chicken wings
Prepare a pot of water, you can soak the chicken wings, everyone's pot size is different, this needs to be weighed by yourself.
Except for the shallots, all spices are placed in the water. Then add the right amount of salt, which is added to make the chicken wings taste good during the cooking process.
After the water is boiled, cook for 10 minutes on low heat to bring out the flavor of the spices. Then put the chicken wings and shallots and turn on the medium heat. After putting in the chicken wings, there is no need to cover the lid, on the one hand, it is convenient to observe the state of water boiling, on the other hand, it can avoid the chicken soup being too greasy.
When the water boils again, turn on a small fire. Keep the water bubbling up throughout, but not boiling. Oh, the fire is too big, the meat will get old, and the chicken skin will be cooked. In the process of cooking, the boiled foam is fished out in time. Cook for about 13 minutes, if your chicken wings are relatively small, the cooking time can be relatively short.
Use chopsticks to poke through the chicken wings, and if there is no blood flowing out, it proves ripe. After the chicken wings are cooked, find a plate to put up first, do not use cold water, let him cool naturally. Don't pour the remaining chicken soup at this time! Don't pour chicken soup! Don't pour chicken soup!
03 Boiled wine
Generally, the hotel concocts the recipe of flower carved chicken, in addition to wine, there is also a broth made of chicken bones and Yaozhu boiled, what should I do if the family kitchen does not have soup? At this time, the water that has just boiled chicken wings can come in handy, although it is not as good as the broth of the big restaurant, but it will have a bit of chicken flavor. Take out the amount of 300ML, remember to fish out the foam first. If you feel like this is a little greasy, you can just add water and add a little salt to the water.
Heat the pot, put down the flower carving wine, then add the soup and sugar, and then wait for the soup to boil again, how long it is cooked here depends on how strong you want to eat the wine flavor, if you want to eat a stronger taste of wine, you can turn off the heat immediately when the soup is boiling. We cooked for about a minute, and there was a faint aroma of wine.
04 Soul mix
Finally, pour the broth over the chicken wings and try to soak all the broths to soak the wings completely.
Seal plastic wrap or plastic wrap, put in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours, if you buy chicken wings that are about the same size as me, then at least soak for 5 hours. So make it at noon and you can taste it for dinner.
In fact, Cantonese cuisine is not only a traditional cuisine
I think Cantonese cuisine is still a combination of Chinese and Western cuisine, eclectic and versatile
In Hong Kong or Guangzhou, you can eat many other cuisines that have been improved by Cantonese chefs
The taste may not be authentic, but because the taste has been tuned
It's also quite suitable for the appetite of the locals
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