Laipin introduction
Cao Cao chicken, also known as Daoyao chicken, was founded in the Three Kingdoms period and is a local traditional dish in Hefei, Anhui Province.
Cao Cao chicken is slaughtered and shaped, coated with honey, fried, and then boiled in ingredients to taste, simmered until crispy, and the meat and bones are detached. The finished product is ruddy in color, rich in aroma, crispy and shiny in skin, and beautiful in appearance. When eating, the legs are shaken and the meat is dropped, the bone crispy flesh is rotten, and the aftertaste is full of flavor after eating.
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During the Three Kingdoms period, Luzhou (in the area of present-day Hefei, Anhui) was located at the junction of the Kingdom of Wu and the Kingdom of Ghosts, and was a place where soldiers and families had to fight.
After Cao Cao unified the north in the thirteenth year of the Han Dynasty (208 AD), he led an army of 830,000 troops from the capital Xuchang to the south to conquer Sun Wu. Due to excessive fatigue, when he was in Luzhou, Cao Cao's headache recurred and he was bedridden.
The chef of the marching dining room followed the doctor's advice and selected local chicken with traditional Chinese medicine and liquor to cook into a therapeutic "medicinal spleen chicken". After Cao Cao tasted it, he felt that the taste was good, and he ate a lot in a row, and unconsciously felt that the headache was much lighter. In order to cure the disease as soon as possible, Cao Cao ordered the cooks to make this chicken for him to eat at every meal. He ate for several days, gradually recovered, and after a few days he got out of bed.
From then on, no matter where the troops went, as long as there were conditions, Cao Cao would eat this kind of "medicinal chicken.". Later, this dish that has both nutritional value, disease prevention and treatment gradually spread, and people named this medicinal dish "Cao Cao Chicken".
After years of development and innovation, Cao Cao Chicken is a dish with more exquisite cooking techniques and more complex ingredients. Hefei City Belt, still based on local chicken, and with liquor, tianma, eucommia, shiitake mushrooms, winter shoots and peppercorns, large ingredients, cinnamon, fennel, green onion, ginger and other 18 kinds of excipients made, rich in nutrition, with food therapy and health skills.
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1 whole chicken, 10g maltose, 25g rice wine, 5g yamana, 1 grass fruit, 5g fennel, 5g star anise, 6g angelica, 5g cardamom, ginger, green onion, rock sugar, stock, cooking oil, salt.
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