Tiger head chicken is also called "mud chicken", in our it has a legend, there was a tiger head general stationed in the area of the current Guangrao County Daqua Town, when the general was stationed here, at that time Guangrao was relatively barren, there were not many livestock that could be eaten by meat, and people could only use their own chickens to reward the general. Later, the general was tired of eating chicken, so another old farmer made his own way of eating at home (a chicken made into a tiger head chicken in poverty can be enough for many people to eat) for the general to eat, and the general ate it, feeling that this dish was good, so the general called the farmer and asked the name of the dish, and the farmer said: There is no name, the general gives one. The general thought for a moment: I like this dish, then call it tiger head chicken.
Tiger head chicken is not only a dish for us, but also a nostalgia, a memory of mother. This dish, which carries my childhood memories, has also become a delicacy that I will never forget wherever I go. We people who work outside the home all year round, often the first dish when we come home is the tiger head chicken made by our mother, and the first dish of the journey is also it, and his soft and rotten fragrance is something we can't forget in our lifetime. Those wanderers in their hometown who have been wandering outside for many years have come home to remember this taste.
When I was a child, I would sit around the stove every New Year's Festival and watch my mother make the tiger chicken that I had been looking forward to for a long time. When I grew up, every time I came home for the New Year's Holiday, I would help my parents to make this traditional family food every time, and my mother said that she was still as hungry as when I was a child, and I just wanted to say that because that was your memory, the hometown memory that I will always miss.
The secret of tiger head chicken is all in the frying of chicken nuggets, to keep the chicken at about seven minutes cooked, too cooked meat is old, poor taste, lose the tender taste, stew is easy to melt oil, not into the taste. Taisheng is not good at hanging paste, the paste skin is easy to fall off when stewing, and the meat is watery and astringent, which is also not flavorful. Tiger head chicken can be said to be a panacea, it can be paired with potatoes, cabbage, powder skin, radish and other kinds of materials, when the New Year dish, parents will use the wood stove to stew for a whole afternoon, the yard is basically floating its aroma. An uncle once told me that I had eaten enough, and if you told me that there were still tiger chickens to eat, I could eat two bowls. But I laughed, and I said, that's a delicacy I'll never forget in my life.
Now wherever I go, as long as I see the name of the tiger chicken on the menu, I will not hesitate to order a copy, but no matter where I go, I feel that my mother's most memorable and long-lasting memory is a memory that I cannot forget in this life.