When it's cold, I like to make some hot soup and drink it. A while ago, I went to the market to buy a chicken, and after cutting it, I found that there was a lot of butter in my stomach, and some of it was particularly large, as shown in the following figure:
At that time, when I first saw it, I was really a little confused. Because the chicken vendors in the wet market told me that this is an authentic local domestic chicken, the price when I bought it was much higher than that of ordinary chickens. But cut inside, there is such a large piece of butter attached, not to mention how much weight is shared, just looking at it, how it does not feel right.
When I was about to cut this large piece of butter and throw it away, and wondering in my heart whether this chicken seller was in the pit, I was seen by the old man in the family. The old man said, your child does not know good goods at a glance, this is not a loss, but a gain. At the time, I was a bit skeptical. However, after consulting a lot of information and seriously consulting the elders, I suddenly realized.
So today, Lazy Meow will share the knowledge learned after some research with everyone, let's take a look, what does the large piece of butter in this chicken represent? Should I eat it or throw it away?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >how does the butter in the chicken come from? </h1>
First of all, we need to understand, where did the butter in the chicken come from? Is it possible that all chickens have such a large piece of butter in it?
As we all know, we can roughly divide the breeds of chickens into two categories, one is captive broiler chickens, which grow faster, are relatively large, and grow up eating uniform feed in feed farms; there is also a type of free-range native chickens, which grow slower, usually smaller in size, usually have a large space for free activity, and eat natural foods such as grain, insects, and wild vegetables.
If we buy captive broilers, the butter will most likely not appear; if we buy free-range chickens, the butter will most likely appear. The production of butter in chicken is directly related to the breed of chicken, the food it eats, and the time of growth.
First of all, only free-range native chickens may carry these butters, broiler chickens basically do not; secondly, chickens that only eat feed to grow up, basically will not have these butters, only chickens that eat grains and natural foods can "hoard" these butters in the body; again, the growth time of chickens is shorter, and these butters will not appear, generally at least more than 1 year of chickens, butter in the stomach will be relatively large, and the longer the growth time, the more butter hoarding.
From the above, if we find the presence of butter in the chicken we bought home, and the butter is still relatively large, it can mean that we bought a free-range chicken, eating more natural food and growing for a long time. All this fully shows that we bought a good chicken.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > this large piece of butter, should I eat it or throw it away? </h1>
After understanding how this large piece of butter came from, I believe that one of the most concerned questions is, for these fat and greasy butter, should we eat it or throw it away? When I first saw it, I really wanted to lose it, but I was stopped by the old man at home. In fact, these butters are of great use.
I believe that many friends buy a chicken to go home because they want to stew a pot of fragrant chicken soup. The key to determining whether the chicken soup is attractive and whether the taste is fragrant is the layer of chicken fat floating on the surface of the chicken soup. If the cooked chicken soup is not shiny and too clear, it is inevitable that people will feel that their appetite is greatly reduced.
Therefore, this large piece of butter in the chicken can be used to stew chicken soup. The chicken soup stewed in this way will be glowing with yellow and clear oil on the surface, and it will be delicious and fragrant to drink.
When stir-frying vegetarian vegetables, it will be very delicious with animal oil, so many friends will choose to take lard to fry green vegetables. In fact, as animal fat, using chicken fat to stir-fry vegetables will also be very fragrant. When making lard, we usually use the fat in the pork, which is also true when refining chicken fat. We can refine chicken fat by refining lard.
Therefore, this large piece of butter in the chicken, we can also refer to the method of refining lard to refine chicken fat, and the refined chicken fat is used to stir-fry vegetables, or stew soup, cooking rice, will be very fragrant.
【Lazy Meow Experience】
After understanding how the large pieces of butter attached to the chicken come from and its use, I believe that the next time you buy chicken, when you see this butter, you will not be as disgusted as I was before. Although it looks fat and greasy, it is a good thing, indicating that we have bought a free-range chicken with sufficient growth time.
Don't throw away this butter, take it to stew chicken soup, or refine it into chicken fat for use when stir-frying, can make our dishes icing on the cake, whether it is appearance or taste, it will be taken to a higher level.
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