No spicy no Xiang Dong'an chicken
Each place has its own unique food culture, and Hunan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. One of the eight major cuisines, .
▲Dongan chicken
Hunan people talk about Hunan cuisine, which is incessant, the head is the Tao, but if you seriously discuss the practice of Hunan cuisine, it is very exquisite.
As we all know, The variety, color, and taste of Hunan cuisine are to be, so that friends who have eaten Hunan cuisine have a bit of a lingering feeling about Hunan cuisine.
However, it can perfectly reflect these points, which belongs to dong'an chicken. The dish to be introduced today is a dish that hunan cuisine will never forget - Dong'an chicken
Speaking of Dongan Chicken, it is said to have undergone 3 dynasties from birth to fame.
From the "Chen Vinegar Chicken" in the first year of the Western Jin Dynasty's Hui Emperor Yongxi→ to the "Guanbao Chicken" in the last years of the Qing Dynasty→ it was finally renamed "Dong'an Chicken" by Tang Shengzhi, a famous patriotic general of the Republic of China.
Since then, Dong'an chicken, as a famous dish in Hunan, can be said to be known to everyone!
There is also a legend about the Dongan chicken:
During the first year of Tang Xuanzong's reign, merchants rushed to the road, starved at night, and ate at a small restaurant in Dong'an County, Hunan. The old woman of the shopkeeper, because there was no vegetable to spare, caught the boy chicken and killed it. After onion, ginger, garlic, spicy seasoning, sesame oil stir-frying, and then cooking with wine, vinegar, salt braised, red oil, shiny, fresh and tender, guests praised, everywhere praised this dish is wonderful. After Zhixian heard about it, he personally went to the store to taste it, and sure enough, it was worthy of the name, so he called it "Dong'an Zi Chicken". This dish has been passed down for thousands of years and has become a famous dish in Hunan.
Whatever the legend, this dish is a harmonious one!
Preparation Method:
01
— Material Selection —
The selection of ingredients has its characteristics, and Dongan chicken must be selected.
Why did you have to choose this chicken? The reason for this is that the meat quality of the baby hen is very good.
02
— Boneless —
Cook the chicken with the boil until then turn off the heat. With soaking it well, it can be seen on the bone.
, cut the chicken into approximations and plate it into shapes.
03
— Stir-fry —
Cut it down, add an appropriate amount, sauté until fragrant, and when the ginger and chili juice overflow, put the cut chicken into the frying pan and stir-fry.
Re-add, increase freshness and nutritional value.
04
— Yo-Yo —
Finally, let the taste wrap around each chicken strip, so that each chicken strip tastes the same.
A famous dish from Hunan is complete!
"After becoming a dish, the first appearance must be, and the five flavors are combined into one, so that it is an authentic Dongan chicken."
As a famous dish with a long history, Dong'an chicken not only carries the culture of China for thousands of years, but we can also see the intentions and sincerity of every chef in this dish from such a dish.
Perhaps a dish can not only satisfy the people who eat it, but also make people really feel the happiness in their hearts.
Isn't this Famous Hunan dish very simple? Have you learned?
Some of those old dishes have been handed down to this day, and the roots and veins of Chinese cuisine can be found from them;
Some are dusty in the old menu, turning into slowly yellowing photos in books and the taste of memories.....
Classics deserve attention
Tradition deserves to be followed
Craftsmanship deserves to be passed on
Traditional cuisine is fading away, showcasing "traditional Sichuan cuisine that is about to disappear"
We base ourselves on tradition and embrace culture, not to let traditional Sichuan cuisine become the past tense, to record and retain tradition with a camera, to show the heritage of old-school traditional Sichuan cuisine to subvert your perception of Sichuan cuisine
We know that food that is stacked by time will be more mellow.
Passing on this culinary ingenuity ~ preserving the essence of Sichuan cuisine ~ is the mission of craftsmen and us.
No matter when and where, we must remember to inherit the taste of Sichuan, which is the ingenuity of Sichuan chefs.