Since we have already introduced the Kaifeng bucket chicken and anyang Daokou roast chicken earlier, let's come to a "Henan chicken" topic and introduce all kinds of special chicken delicacies in Henan to you. Kaifeng bucket chicken and Anyang Daokou roast chicken are made of broth, today we will introduce a Henan chicken dish made by frying - fried eight pieces.
Although the name of this fried eight piece does not sound as elegant as the bucket chicken and the Daokou roast chicken, its production process and delicious taste are not at all inferior to these two chickens. Fried eight pieces of chicken, chicken gizzards, chicken liver, starch (broad beans) and other ingredients are cooked, and it has a certain history, counting the anti-war has a history of more than 200 years. And its main ingredient is the baby chicken, because the taste of the baby chicken is the best. It's shaped like a chicken nugget in KFC, but it tastes much more delicious than KFC. This can't help but remind me of the fried chicken wishbones sold in the school food street, every three to five always buy some chicken fork bones to nibble, fragrant and crispy, simply so happy! Although the chicken wishbones are also fried, it is too cheap compared to fried eight pieces, because frying eight pieces is to cut the chicken into eight pieces, remove the bones, and then start frying.
Fried eight pieces, also known as eight pieces of chicken, is a traditional famous dish in Henan Province, belonging to the Yu cuisine system. The local restaurant has a rather charming "dry fried sauce do not be lettuce, a chicken chop eight cloves" of the loud hall newspaper, the second half of the sentence refers to fried eight pieces.
According to historical records, in August of the tenth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1077 AD), the Yellow River broke through in Caocun, north of Changyuan City, and this time the Yellow River broke, flooding 34 prefectures and counties, washing away 300,000 hectares of farmland, damaging more than 380,000 houses, and the Jingdong Road area fell into the yellow water. Cheng Hao, the judge of the Zhenning Army, led his soldiers to the mouth at night and was responsible for the scene of emergency rescue and blocking. After Cheng Hao took office, he personally led the soldiers and people to rescue the people, and after more than a month of day and night fighting, he finally blocked the breach, and built an embankment for more than a hundred miles, and built an official bridge here. In order to comfort Cheng Hao and other officers and soldiers who had worked hard and made great achievements, the local government and the people planned to set up a celebration feast to comfort the labor, but because of the fierce flood, the pigs and sheep were swept away by the flood, and they could only catch chickens perched on the roof and trees to treat the officers and soldiers. In this harsh environment, there is no way to cook chicken well, so you can only chop the killed chicken into small pieces, use green onions, ginger, peppercorns, sauce and salt and hemp, fry them in a frying pan, and offer them to Judge Cheng and others to eat. The reddish yellow, crisp and fragrant fried chicken nuggets were unexpectedly praised by Cheng Hao and others.
Later, Cheng Hao immersed himself in scholarship, laid the foundation for science, laid the foundation for the formation of the "Cheng Zhu School", and became the founder of the "Cheng Zhu School" in China's history. In order to commemorate Cheng Hao, the villagers passed down the fried chicken he praised, and later continued to improve it.
When it comes to the development of fried eight pieces, it has to be said that the Qianlong Emperor who made it famous throughout the country, and before that it has always been a folk ordinary home cooking. According to legend, when the Qianlong Emperor inspected Henan, he arrived in Kaifeng, and after tasting the fried eight pieces in Kaifeng, he praised it, so the fried eight pieces began to be famous throughout the country. During the Years of the Republic of China, Mr. Lu Xun often ate fried eight pieces in Shanghai at the Liangyuan Yu Restaurant founded by the Changyuan people. Even the famous contemporary writer Yao Xueyan once said: "My favorite is The eight pieces of fried in Henan, which are fragrant and tender."