Modern Express News (Correspondent Xu Qingqing, Ge Jiaxin, Reporter Gu Xiao) On April 24, the final of the first 2024 "Luyuan Royal Family Called Flower Chicken" Innovation Production Competition hosted by the School of Tourism and Culinary Sciences of Yangzhou University came to a successful conclusion. It is reported that a total of 15 teams and more than 60 contestants fought their way out of the encirclement in the preliminary round, and each team showed their own talents, creating new dishes such as "pepper pepper chicken", "tea chicken" for health, "Qiankun chicken" for Cantonese style, and "miso chicken" for Korean style, which are dizzying, and all kinds of delicious and provocative taste buds.
Called flower chicken is a famous dish in the south of the Yangtze River that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and has been included in the "Jiangsu Recipe" and "Chinese Famous Recipe". According to legend, because in ancient times, a person called Huazi, the chicken wrapped in lotus leaves was covered with yellow mud, simmered in the fire, and the chicken was cooked by the mud, and the mud shell was peeled off, revealing the simmered chicken, so it was also called the chicken, the simmered chicken. When eating this dish, the mud shell is cracked, the house is full of fragrance, and the entrance is crispy and fat.
In this competition, more than 60 contestants competed, from pickling, smearing, to wrapping, baking, unsealing, ingenuity production, fragrant. Some teams are ingenious in the pickling seasoning, using red wine to pickle, adding a hint of wine fragrance to the fragrance of lotus leaves, refreshing people's hearts; some teams use unique ingredients in the wrapping raw materials, using puff pastry, naan and other forms instead of mud, and make the shape into the appearance of milk bread, which is very ornamental; the Korean student team also integrates Korean ginseng chicken soup into the production of called flower chicken, enjoying the delicious taste in the collision of cultures. The steaming Chicken is a delicious taste with a delicious aroma that blooms on the tip of the tongue with a crispy crust and tender chicken, making every bite a wonderful taste journey.
"Called flower chicken is a famous dish with a long history, but also the brilliant crystallization of traditional food culture" Luyuan called flower chicken fifth generation teacher Xu Yongqing told reporters, this competition in the premise of following the ancient law, into the modern cooking technology, to promote the inheritance and development of the traditional food called flower chicken.
The reporter learned that the School of Tourism and Cooking of Yangzhou University is rooted in traditional food culture, from Yangzhou intangible cultural heritage refreshments to today's called flower chicken, committed to inheriting and promoting intangible cultural heritage food, and will explore more intangible cultural heritage food in the future, jointly inherit the classic "ancient taste", and create a "new rhyme" for taste buds.
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