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Text: Xuanzang
Edited by Xuanzang
Preface
Tomorrow is the new year, and it is also the time for families to "kill chickens and sheep", and chicken is a main dish that often appears on our table.
Friends who have chickens at home are probably ready to start killing chickens.
Nowadays, young people rarely kill chickens by themselves, and it is estimated that they have rarely seen others kill chickens.
But friends who have had the experience of killing chickens should have the impression that when killing chickens, there is a piece of butter in the belly of the chicken.
We often throw away this piece of yellow oil when we kill chickens, but we don't know that this little butter is a treasure!
What is that piece of "butter".
Under normal circumstances, when you kill chickens, you will choose to dispose of all the things in your stomach, especially when you buy them in the market, most of them are handled by people, not to mention other things, even chicken livers are not wanted.
The price of chicken itself is not expensive, and most of the people who eat chicken eat chicken, and most people can't accept chicken offal, so they ignore the "chicken butter" in the chicken belly.
The so-called "chicken butter" is the fat of the chicken.
Although we basically don't eat fat when we eat chicken, it doesn't mean that even if there is no fat, compared to pork, chicken fat accumulates in the stomach, which is what we call "chicken butter".
Because the ones bought are all processed, this "chicken butter" is also directly disposed of, and most people don't actually have the opportunity to get in touch with it.
Don't look at "chicken butter" as chicken fat, but compared to "pork fat", "chicken butter" is still very nutritious.
Unlike regular fats, "chicken butter" is higher quality and more nutritious than the fats we usually see.
Chicken itself is the favorite of people in the fat loss period, and with this "chicken butter", it can be said that "with a chicken in hand, everything is fine".
In addition, "chicken butter" can be used not only for stewing soup and making chicken, but also for stir-frying if you know how to handle it yourself.
Compared with vegetable oil and lard, the vegetables fried in "chicken butter" have the aroma of animal fat, but are not too greasy, and are more suitable for supplementing nutrition for the family.
"Butter" is not something that anyone wants to have, but can have it if they want to
It is worth mentioning that even if you buy live chickens and handle them yourself, it is difficult to buy "chicken butter".
Although "chicken butter" is the fat that chickens accumulate in their bodies as they grow, most of the chickens on the farm do not have "chicken butter".
One is that the most important thing for chickens raised on the farm is to increase production, and the feeding is also based on feed, and there are usually no opportunities for exercise.
In order to increase production, most farms not only do not give them exercise, but also add some substances to increase their size, so that they can raise chickens that can be bought in a short time.
It's just that such chickens look slightly larger and have plump meat, but in fact, due to lack of exercise, the meat is loose and not chewy, not to mention "chicken butter".
If you really want to eat "chicken butter", you have to buy "free-range chicken".
Generally, free-range chickens are raised by farmers themselves, and most of them eat grains and coarse grains.
This kind of local chicken not only has good meat quality, but also has a rich "chicken butter" in the body, which is very delicious whether it is used for stewing soup or cooking.
This is also why everyone likes to go to the farmhouse to buy local chicken to eat, not only to eat the environment and atmosphere, but also to eat the taste of local chicken.
However, it should be noted that many unscrupulous merchants will use feed chickens instead of local chickens to sell at high prices, and they must learn to distinguish when buying.
Have you ever heard of chicken treasures and lanterns?
We talked about "chicken butter" above, and many people will definitely want to ask, what are the popular "lanterns" and "chicken treasures" on the Internet, and do they also belong to "chicken butter"?
Strictly speaking, there are similarities between "lanterns" and "chicken treasures".
The "lantern" refers to a combination of a chicken's ovaries and an unhatched egg, so named because it looks like a chandelier.
It has both the aroma of eggs and the texture of chicken, and it is one of the favorite foods of many barbecue people.
The chicken treasure is the egg cell of the hen that has lesions during the laying of eggs, which is not considered the yolk, but its basic composition is similar to the yolk, which is similar to the "lantern".
The biggest difference between the two is that chicken treasures are hard to find, because they cannot be artificially cultivated, so they are very rare and very expensive in terms of price.
The price of "Jibao" is not calculated by catties, but by grams, and it is rumored that the price of one gram ranges from 70,000 to 350,000 yuan, and there are even people who are willing to sell for a higher price.
Compared with the previous two, although "chicken butter" is said to be rich in nutrients, no one will buy it alone, and "chicken butter" is essentially chicken fat, which is still fundamentally different from the above two foods.
The most important thing is that although "chicken butter" is nutritious and delicious, modern people basically do not spend that effort to raise and then kill the chicken themselves.
Rather than spending so much effort to taste the "chicken butter" in the chicken belly, most people still prefer to replace it with some other foods, and they really want to eat something that can be solved by going to the farmhouse yard, and there is really no need to be so troublesome.
There are various ways to eat it
Although it is said that it is troublesome to eat, for those who really love food, they will still choose to try it for themselves.
It is also necessary to say here that the feed of chickens is not without fat, but there is no "chicken butter", the fat of feed chickens is the same as that of pigs, and the taste is naturally not as good as "chicken butter", and generally there will be no merchants to sell.
The "chicken butter" in the local chicken can be used to boil soup. In addition to stewed chicken, it can also be used to refine oil residue like pork.
The oil residue can be kept for stir-frying, even if there is no chicken, you can eat the taste of chicken, as for the chicken fat after condensation, you can put some sugar and use it to wrap meatballs to eat, so eat it separately, you can eat a few more meals, and you can unlock a lot of fresh practices.
Misunderstanding of butter
I love chicken, and I have seen several scenes of killing chicken.
When I saw the piece of butter, I felt greasy, and I felt that this chicken was lazy and didn't exercise much, and there was such a big piece of fat accumulated in the body.
At that time, I still felt that the quality of this chicken was not very good, and I foolishly hoped that when I would eat the chicken again in the future, it would be better to be a chicken without this butter.
Looking at it now, the idea at that time was really superficial.
Author's point of view
From a practical point of view, everyone is indeed not lacking in the nutrition of "chicken butter" now, but the pursuit of food has never changed.
Since there is such a delicious thing, it is worth it no matter how long it takes, as long as you can eat it at the end!
Sources of information:
1. Baidu Encyclopedia: Chicken Treasure