"Lollipop chicken" is a traditional dish with local flavor in Sichuan, which is known for its tender and fat meat. This dish is made with fat and tender rooster as the main ingredient, accompanied by sesame oil, chili oil, soy sauce, peppercorns, sugar, monosodium glutamate, chives and other spices, and it is spicy, spicy, fresh and fragrant.
As a local dish, "Lollipop Chicken" is cooked in Leshan City in central Sichuan Province and Daxian City, an important town in DabaShan in eastern Sichuan Province. Why did it get so named "Lollipop Chicken"?
Legend has it that before the liberation, there was a chef named Zhang Tianbao, at that time in order to satisfy the gastronomic desire of a Kuomintang division commander, he painstakingly developed a chic chicken dish, he chose the fat and tender rooster of that year, after slaughtering and purifying, gently tapped with a small wooden stick to loosen the chicken bone, and then made through multiple processes, the chicken meat into a vegetable chicken texture is crisp and tender, the color, aroma, taste, shape are good, indeed delicious and unique, highly appreciated. Subsequently, this Chef Zhang opened a specialty "lollipop chicken" shop in Daxian City, and his reputation was greatly enhanced. This is the origin of the "lollipop chicken", which has been passed down to this day.
![In the past, the old father had learned to cook in the Great Hall of the People, and the lollipop chicken method was practiced[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)