I love chicks.
Whether it is stir-fried sauce stew, steaming pot barbecue, smoked brine chopped and pickled, various methods, but also slightly eaten some. And the favorite practice is white cut chicken in Guangdong and steam pot chicken in Yunnan. The reason is that there is no other reason, and the original taste of the chicken can be heard. But the premise is that there must be a good chicken. If not, it is still brine or wax, and it is made with taste.
I once read a "Eating Food in Kunming" written by Mr. Wang Zengqi, talking about this steam pot chicken, the text said: There are many ways to eat chicken Chinese, the most author of which is Guangzhou salt chicken, Changshu flower chicken, and I think that Kunming steam pot chicken should be counted as the first. What are the benefits of steam pot chicken? A: The most authentic taste of chicken. Pure and pure, a slice of chicken. Steam pot chicken must put less than a few pieces of Xuanwei ham, a small piece of sanqi, the more "hairy" the chicken flavor.
I am fortunate to have the same good friends with Old Master Wang.
A few years ago, he led a team to Kunming, Yunnan Province, to shoot a food documentary "Search fresh", and ate a steam pot chicken in a small courtyard in Guandu Ancient Town, which was very good. Later, I went to Kunming and took pictures of his new book to The Cooking Master Yan Yan of Yunnan, took a complete picture of the steam pot chicken, and also asked Master Yan a lot about the steam pot chicken, which benefited a lot.
Do steam pot chicken, must first talk about the steam pot, Yunnan has a place called Jianshui, rich in clay, local craftsmen, good use of clay to make pottery, its utensils "bright as water, bright as a mirror, body like iron stone, sound like chiming", more skillful hands to make a kind of clay steamer, this pot structure is unique, the belly is flat and round, but in the middle but cleverly set up a hollow tube, when steaming vegetables, steam along this pipe into the pot chamber, hot gas through the pot lid cooled into drops, circulated into the pot, so named "steam pot".
First pick a local young-toothed native chicken, this chicken, need to be fat and thin, fat is greasy, thin and tasteless, just laid eggs of the tender hen or the first rooster is the best. Sharpen the knife, wield a sharp blade, slaughter and wash, chop off small pieces of dominoes, soak in clean water to remove blood stains, or boil flying water, put chicken nuggets into the steam pot, not too much, two-thirds is appropriate. Seasoning is quite simple, only need a few slices of ginger, a few shallots to tie a knot, a little salt and a little pepper can be, if you add a few pieces of Xuanwei ham to the body fresh taste is even better, in recent years, there are also added cordyceps, ginseng, tianma, tianqi, dendrobium flowers, goji berries and other things, to add its fragrance, its taste, its nutrition, is also very good.
Then put the lid on the steam pot, place it on top of a steamer full of water, take the gauze, plug the gap so as not to leak the steam, start the stove, make a fire, and burn the flames. Steam pot water boiling, steam endlessly, steam in the middle of the steam pot, grunting and tumbling, steam churning, circulating in the pot, the original soup stewed, the chicken gradually steamed, about one or two hours, until the meat and bone separated, the soup is fragrant, you can enjoy.
On the table, uncovered, suddenly hot steam, fragrant overflowing four seats, guanzhi, chicken fat clear yellow, floating in chicken soup, fragrant, tempting, chicken nuggets lurking in the soup, looming, because it is steam condensation, so the chicken umami locked in the meat, the original taste. Taste it, the chicken is smooth and tender, there seems to be gravy splashing out of the meat, and the soup is extremely delicious. The tiger even chewed a few pieces, drank several bowls of chicken soup, the meat was extremely fresh, the soup was extremely hot, the tiger ate sweaty back, breathless, and couldn't help but clap the case!
Tasting this delicacy, the tiger also heard a legend about the filial piety of the steam pot chicken, the tiger was extremely repulsive to the legend of the food, but for this legend, rather than believe in its truth, all because of its filial piety.
Reading the beautiful text of Mr. Wang, the delicious taste of the steam pot chicken, the sense of filial piety in the legend, the comfort, is to remember also.
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