Dong'an zi chicken, also known as Dong'an chicken and Guanbao chicken, is a local traditional dish that belongs to the Hunan cuisine family. It is named after the new hen cooked in Dongan. Dong'anzi chicken is red, white, green and yellow, the chicken is fat and tender, and the taste is sour, spicy and fragrant.
Legendary allusions
During the first year of Tang Xuanzong's reign, merchants rushed to the road, starved at night, and ate at a small restaurant in Dong'an County, Hunan. The old woman of the shopkeeper, because there was no vegetable to spare, caught the boy chicken and killed it. After onion, ginger, garlic, spicy seasoning, sesame oil bursting, and then cooked with wine, vinegar, salt braised, red oil, shiny, fresh and tender, guests praised, everywhere praised this dish is wonderful. After Zhixian heard about it, he personally went to the store to taste it, and sure enough, it was worthy of the name, so he called it "Dong'an Zi Chicken". This dish has been passed down for thousands of years and has become a famous dish in Hunan
Origin environment
Dong'an County is located in the southwest of Hunan, and the Xiangshui Flows from Xing'an County in Guangxi and the "Xiang and Li Dispatches" flow into dong'an, Hunan. In addition to Xiangshui, there are also rivers such as Zishui River, Shiqi River and Luhong River in Dong'an. It has a humid subtropical monsoon climate with abundant precipitation, abundant heat, sufficient sunlight and four distinct seasons. It is a hilly landform with high terrain in the northwest and low in the southeast. The land pattern is seven mountains and half water, two parts of the land, half of the road and the manor. In this unique geographical condition, local farmers naturally feed the chicken chicken legs small, large and fat breasts, tender and delicious.
Preparation method
Ingredients: 1 local chicken in Dong'an (about 800 grams), 4 green onions, 1 piece of ginger, 30 grams of cooking oil, 2 tbsp stock, 2 tsp cooking wine, appropriate amount of peppercorns, appropriate amount of large ingredients, appropriate amount of starch, a little pepper, a little balsamic vinegar, a little salt, a little sugar.
Method 1. Wash the chicken after slaughter, put it in the steamer and steam for 15 minutes until it is seven ripe, take it out and let it cool, cut into pieces, add salt and sugar and marinate for 10 minutes.
2. Heat the oil in a pot, add large ingredients, peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant, stir-fry the ginger and green onion, then add chicken nuggets and stir-fry well, pour the cooking wine and stir-fry several times on high heat.
3. Add broth, balsamic vinegar, pepper, salt and sugar to a boil, and use the juice to bring to a boil.
Tips
1. Chickens born in Luhong Town, Dong'an County, chicken legs are small, and the chest is large and fat. It is best to choose a chicken with a growth period of less than 1 year.
2. The time to cook chicken or steam chicken should not be too long, subject to the legs can insert chopsticks and allocate bloodless water.
3. Chicken from the back of the back of a two halves and then go to the bone, when deboned first to the body bone and then go to the leg bone, the knife must be close to the bone into the knife, pay attention to keep the chicken shape intact.
4) Vinegar is best with rice vinegar, fat and tender and fragrant Dong'an zi chicken strips cut into strips, seasoned with ginger vinegar chili peppercorns and stir-fried, tender and slightly sour, sour and spicy in the rich flavor to increase the flavor
Dishes special
Dong'an zi chicken has beautiful shape, bright color, tender meat, sour and spicy refreshing, fat but not greasy, not tired of eating, overflowing aroma, rich nutrition, fragrant, sweet, sour, spicy, tender, crisp six flavors are complete.
This article is written by Liu Yong