First, make the standard brine soup of secret smoked chicken
Ingredients: pork stick bone 5000 g Chicken skeleton 20 chicken feet 2500 g
Seasoning: Salt 400 g Flower carving wine 300 ml sugar 300 g Green onion 300 g Ginger slices 200 g monosodium glutamate 50 g Chicken essence 60 g
Spices: Star anise 30 g Galangal 50 g Nutmeg 25 g White Root 50 g White Cardamom 30 g Cumin 20 g Cloves 10 g Herb 35 g Fragrant Leaves 25 g Cinnamon 50 g Licorice 10 g
Preparation method: The pork stick bone is broken, the chicken skeleton and chicken feet are chopped into pieces, the blood water is washed with water, and then put into the boiling water pot to put a water, fished out and put in a stainless steel bucket, to be mixed with 50 liters of water on high heat, turn to a low heat until only about 30 liters of fresh soup remains, then put in the seasoning and spice packets, continue to cook for 1 hour and then fish out the pork stick bones, chicken racks, chicken feet and shallots and ginger (leaving the spice packets), that is, get the brine soup.
Precautions for making brine soup
1; Pork stick bones, chicken racks and chicken feet must first be rinsed with blood water, and when hanging fresh soup, it should be simmered for a long time on low heat so that the soup is not turbid.
2. Spices should be selected as high-grade goods, and should be beaten into coarse particles to use. In addition, after each time the chicken is marinated in the broth, a part of the spices should be added.
3. After each use of the brine soup, you must add fresh soup in time to supplement it, and do not add water, because it will affect the aroma of the brine soup.
4. After brine the chicken, it is not necessary to fish it out immediately, but to soak it in the brine for about 10 hours to make it more flavorful. After brineing the chicken many times, you should also beat out part of the oil slick on the surface of the brine soup, because after the chicken is smoked, you must also use this oil slick - brush on the surface of the chicken body to increase the fragrance.
2. Make secret smoked chicken
1. Take 10 stupid chickens (about 1250 grams each) and slaughter them, put them in a pot of boiling water and put them out for later.
2. Bring the broth to a boil, add the stupid chicken to a low heat and marinate for 35 minutes, turn off the heat and soak overnight
3. The next day, first put the chicken together with the brine soup on the fire, fish out and send it to the hanging oven while it is hot, add sugar and tea leaves, burn on low heat for 1 and a half minutes, take it out and brush the chicken body with brine oil.
Instructions: Chicken smoked in a hanging oven is more evenly colored.