Braised chicken(ba ji )

Grilled chicken:

Raw materials for grilled chicken

Cut chicken (1.2kg) in half, remove skin and bone, 225ml white yogurt, 75ml malt vinegar, 20g onion, 30g garlic sauce, 30g ginger, 30g fresh sauce, 5g Indian mixed spice, 1.5g chili powder, 2G red powder, 0.5ml red pigment, 0.5ml yellow pigment, 2.5ml salt, 2.5ml black pepper and 0.5ml lemon (concentrated juice).

Processing steps of grilled chicken:

1. Stir onion, garlic, ginger and half of the seasoning in a bowl. Pour in lemon juice, vinegar and yogurt.

2. Coat the chicken with the above marinade and marinate it for one night (Note: the chicken should be boned and cleaned, half of the chicken wing).

3. When making, put the chicken skin on the grill, put it on the baking plate, put it into 160 degrees, bake for 12-15 minutes, and prick the chicken leg bone with a knife. If there is no blood spilling, the meat will be cooked.

4. With white rice, yogurt juice, cucumber salad and other decorations, put them on the plate.

Braised chicken

Grilled chicken is one of the representative dishes in Shandong Province, and it is also a famous dish with traditional flavor. It belongs to Shandong cuisine, and is made of chicken, Amomum villosum, clove, jade fruit, etc. Dezhou spiced boneless grilled chicken is the most famous chicken in China. Dezhou grilled chicken is a national intangible cultural heritage.

Grilled chicken is a traditional dish. According to historical records, grilled chicken originated in Yucheng, also known as Yucheng spiced boneless grilled chicken, which has a history of more than 300 years. It is famous for its unique production, rotten and boneless meat, delicious color, fat but not greasy. It was recorded in the local investigation records of Shandong counties in 1919.

Basic introduction

The four famous chickens in China refer to Goubangzi smoked chicken in Liaoning, Dezhou braised chicken in Shandong, Daokou roast chicken in Henan and Fuliji roast chicken in Anhui.

Grilled chicken is a famous dish with traditional Chinese flavor and classic Shandong cuisine. Dezhou spiced and boneless grilled chicken is the most famous, ranking first among the four famous chickens in China.

The ancient city of Dezhou, Jiuda Tianqu, Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the north and south of the city. As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Dezhou braised chicken was listed as Shandong tribute and sent to the palace for emperor and Empress and royal families to enjoy. In the 1950s, on the way back to Beijing from Shanghai, Song Qingling, vice president of the people's Republic of China, stopped many times in Dezhou to buy Dezhou braised chicken and gave it to Chairman Mao Zedong as a tribute. As a result, Dezhou grilled chicken is well-known all over the country and exported overseas, and is favored by people at home and abroad. All those who taste it are applauded and praised as "the first chicken in the world".

Cooking technology

Dezhou grilled chicken is called grilled chicken, which refers to the production technology of grilled chicken. It refers to the cooking technology of grilled elbow and beef, mainly grilled. Grilling is one of the main cooking techniques in China. The production process of grilling is more complex, and generally needs to be heated in more than two ways. First of all, put the raw materials in the water to boil, remove the blood and dirt, then put on the soy sauce and fry them in the oil pan. After frying, use the scallion and ginger to cook in the pan, add the seasoning and soup, add the raw materials and bring them to a boil over high heat, stew them thoroughly over medium and low heat, and then pour them into the plate with a pan.

Grilled chicken is cooked with over 20 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, such as Amomum villosum, clove, jade fruit, cinnamon, Angelica dahurica, cinnamon, etc., and simmered with slow fire.

Chicken source selection

The choice of chicken source is very important, and the best source is the four effect farm chicken in Dezhou City. The results show that the product contains 30.25% protein, less than 8% fat, less than 3.5% salt and less than 68% water. It also contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins. Therefore, it is a delicious product with high protein and low fat. It has the functions of invigorating spleen, appetizing, tonifying kidney, strengthening heart and lung. It is used for birthday party and presents to relatives and friends. It is also a good treasure.

Production method

First, slaughtering: cut off the trachea of more than 750 grams of live chickens, release the blood, scald them with hot water of about 65 degrees Celsius, remove the chicken feathers, peel off the old skin of legs, mouths and claws, and then cut them open from the buttocks, remove the internal organs and drain the blood;

Second, plastic surgery: the chicken legs up, double claws inserted into the abdomen, two wings crossed out from the mouth, shaped like "duck floating on the surface of the water.";

Third, deep frying: coat the whole body of the chicken with sugar, then fry it in boiling oil until the chicken is golden;

The fourth is ingredient stewing: before cooking, put an iron grate at the bottom of the pot to prevent the pot from pasting, and then put the processed chicken into the pot according to the old tender, and add the material soup to prevent the chicken from floating. When cooking, use high heat to cook, low heat to stew, oil floating to pressure, chicken stewing for 6 to 8 hours, old chicken stewing for 8 to 10 hours, grilled chicken stewing is mainly based on the original pot old soup, and prepare the new soup according to the proportion, and the ingredients are pepper, big sauce, cinnamon, clove Angelica dahurica, Caogou, tangerine peel, three naphthalene, Amomum villosum, ginger, fennel, soy sauce, sugar, salt and so on 16 kinds, the grilled chicken made in this way, the appearance is complete and beautiful, the color is golden red, the meat is soft and palatable.

Dezhou grilled chicken is a national intangible cultural heritage.

Historical origin

Dezhou grilled chicken, originated in the Ming Dynasty, founded in the Qing Dynasty and passed down in the Republic of China, is a famous historical food at home and abroad. After more than ten generations of hard business development, grilled chicken has become a unique Chinese food from a local famous product. It has formed its own characteristics in color, aroma, taste, shape, quality and breeding. It is known as "the first chicken in China" and "the first chicken in China".

There are various opinions about the origin of Dezhou grilled chicken, such as: "Dezhou watermelon is the seedling of Wucheng, Dezhou grilled chicken is the soup of Yucheng", which means Dezhou grilled chicken originated from Yucheng (county-level city); there are also rumors that Dezhou grilled chicken is the result of continuous refining and summarizing of Dezhou roasted chicken merchants. And there is an allusion to every statement.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, with the busy water transportation, Dezhou became the imperial road of Kyoto to nine provinces. The economy began to prosper, and roast chicken appeared on the market. Old people with baskets selling roast chicken often appear near the canal wharf, shuihan post station and Guanya in the city. This kind of roasted chicken is a kind of delicious roasted chicken which has been carefully made. Its shape lies on the side, its color is red, its flavor is fragrant, and its meat is tender and delicious. As the prototype of later grilled chicken, it has just emerged. With the development of economy, Dezhou city entered its heyday and became one of the 33 big cities in China. As a thoroughfare of water and land, merchants gather and goods from four townships are distributed here, resulting in a situation of "visitors from all over the world like clouds, restaurants and inns like forests". Roast chicken has not only been seen at the table, but also entered the society. There are many people selling roast chicken with carrying suitcases on their arms. At first, they were surnamed Jia. Later, the more famous ones are Xu Enrong's family, whose nickname is "Xu Shaoji", and Zhang Jia in the West. It's also common for people to set up shops in front of the door. Of course, at this time, the people who eat roast chicken are still limited to the dignitaries, businessmen and the rich, and the common people can only look at the chicken and sigh. But the inventor and producer of roast chicken are the real working people. In order to support their families, they worked hard and made contributions to the society. Later, the development of chicken food, in the narrow family workshops, in the ancient, extensive process, produced the original chicken culture.

In the 31th year of Kangxi reign (1692 AD), there was a roast chicken producer named Jia Jiancai in the street outside the west gate of Dezhou City. He ran a roast chicken shop. Because this street leads to the canal wharf, small business is not bad. One day, shopkeeper Jia went out in an emergency. He told the second child to keep the fire down. How do you know that shopkeeper Jia walked in front of the kitchen, and soon he fell asleep in front of the stove. When he woke up, he found that the fire had been boiled. When he was at a loss, manager Jia came back and tried to get the chicken out and sell it in the store. I didn't think it was chicken fragrance, which attracted many passers-by to buy it. The guest bought a taste, tut tut praise: not only the meat rotten flavor, even the bone is crisp and fragrant, it can be said to wear fragrant bone. After that, shopkeeper Jia devoted himself to research and improve his skills. This led to the original practice of grilled chicken, that is, boiling in high heat and stewing in low heat. In the current saying, the fire should be first martial and then civil, and the martial arts should be orderly. Therefore, grilled chicken is called "grilled" because of this. Jia's chicken is famous. The old customer suggested giving it a name. Shopkeeper Jia doesn't want to be famous. After a few days, I suddenly remembered that there was an old scholar MA in the street. I thought that he would have a good name. So he wrapped two steaming chickens with lotus leaves and quickly walked to Ma Xiucai's house in Liukou street of Majia. He asked the scholar to name the chicken. Ma Xiucai tasted the chicken and asked about the way of doing it. While tasting it, he chanted out: "when I shake my flesh and bone in the heat, I can't help but attack you with a strange fragrance. I've got my fingers stretched out and my teeth are fragrant." After singing the poem, he blurted out: "what a spiced and boneless braised chicken!" In the second year, 1693, Jia Jiancai put grilled chicken on the Lantern Festival to sell, which made it a big market and a great reputation. Since then, there has been a situation of roast chicken and grilled chicken being produced and sold at the same time in Dezhou City.

With the opening of Jinpu railway and Shide railway, Dezhou grilled chicken business has entered a prosperous period, showing the scene of "a hundred schools of thought contend". In order to prosper their business, the shopkeepers inherited the skills and secretly "stole" each other's skills, which objectively contributed to the great improvement of the production skills of grilled chicken. At this time, most of the grilled chicken shops are concentrated in front of the railway station square, and there are many shops and shops. Walking through the street, the fragrance is delicious and mouth watering. In this period, Hou Baoqing of baolanzhai and Han Shigong of deshunzhai, as well as Zhang, Cui and Duanmu (all from the city of Dezhou), were the main representatives of the descendants of grilled chicken. They followed the main production points of Jia and Xu. Han Shigong is a businessman who is not good at talking and thinking about processing skills. In practice, he explored and summed up the production of roast chicken by his predecessors

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