Spicy chicken (ma la zi ji )

Spicy chicken method:

Raw materials for spicy chicken

Two young chickens, weighing about 750 grams, 50 grams of red pepper, 50 grams of green garlic, 1000 grams of peanut oil (100 grams), 15 grams of cooking wine, 5 grams of refined salt, 1.5 grams of monosodium glutamate, 1 gram of Chinese prickly ash, 15 grams of soy sauce, 15 grams of vinegar, 50 grams of wet starch, 15 grams of sesame oil and 50 grams of clear soup.

Processing steps of spicy chicken

1. Slaughter the chicken, remove the hair, remove the internal organs from the back, clean, remove all the thick and thin bones, cut into 2 cm square dice, put in the refined salt and soy sauce, mix well with wet starch.

2. Remove the pedicels and seeds of red pepper, wash and cut into 1cm square pieces. Cut green garlic into oblique sections. Smash the pepper. Mix soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, clear soup and wet starch into juice.

3. Put peanut oil in the frying pan and heat it to 70% heat. Put the diced chicken into the pan and scatter it with a hand spoon for about 20 seconds. When the oil temperature rises to 70% heat, put the diced chicken into the pan and fry it to golden color. Pour the oil into the spoon and drain the oil.

4. Leave 50g of oil in the pot and heat it to 60%. When it is hot, add red pepper, green garlic and Chinese prickly ash, stir fry with refined salt, then add fried diced chicken and stir fry together. Add the juice and stir fry for a few times

Characteristics of spicy chicken

Hunan has a humid climate and is prone to rheumatism, thus forming a habit of eating hot pepper and ginger. Hunan chicken has a large yield and rich nutrition. Every 100 grams of chicken contains 24.4 grams of protein, 2.8 grams of fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and vitamins. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken is sweet and warm, which has the effect of warming, supplementing qi, tonifying essence and adding marrow.

Spicy chicken

Spicy chicken was founded in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is one of the famous Hunan dishes with strong local flavor.

Spicy chicken is usually prepared with female chicks as the main material, pepper as the auxiliary material, fried with edible oil, and then cooked with Shaoxing wine, yellow vinegar, garlic and other seasonings.

After being cooked, the chicken is golden in color, tender inside and burnt outside, and tastes delicious.

History of dishes

Malaziji was first created in Changsha yuloudong restaurant during Tongzhi period. Chefs choose about 500 grams of hen as the main ingredient, with pepper, yellow vinegar, garlic and a variety of spices cooked, delicious taste, very popular. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan's grandson and Xiangxiang Hanlin once went to the building to have a meal and wrote an impromptu poem, saying: "spicy chicken soup is used to soak the stomach, which makes people often remember Yulou East.".

Later, some cooks improved the preparation of spicy chicken, and some diners praised it: "spicy chicken is golden in color and fresh in taste. If you ask a restaurant where it is good, Xiaoxiang is better than yuloudong. "

With the passage of time, the restaurants of Changsha generation in Hunan Province showed their own abilities, and innovated and improved the ingredients and cooking to make the spicy chicken flavor to a higher level.

Dish making

Production method

Practice 1

Ingredients

500g chicken leg, 1 egg, 5 cloves garlic, proper amount of starch, 500g edible oil, 1 tsp sesame oil, 1 / 2 tsp chili oil, 2 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp soup, 1 / 2 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp pepper powder, 1 tsp vinegar, 1 / 2 tsp sugar, 1 / 2 tsp monosodium glutamate.

step

1. First remove the bone of chicken leg and cut it into pieces, then add the beaten egg, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and starch, stir and marinate for 30 minutes.

2. Wash and slice the garlic for use.

3. Pour the oil into the pan and heat it. Deep fry the chicken until golden yellow. Remove and drain.

4. Leave the bottom oil in the pot, heat it, add garlic, stir fry quickly over high fire, add pepper powder, then add chicken, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, wine and broth, stir well, then thicken with starch, pour sesame oil and chili oil, stir well.

 

Practice 2

Ingredients

Chicken 850 g, red pepper 50 g, garlic 50 g, starch 20 g, peanut oil 80 g, cooking wine 15 g, salt 5 g, MSG 2 g, pepper 1 g, soy sauce 15 g, vinegar 15 g, sesame oil 15 G.

step

1. Slaughter and wash the chicks, remove the fine bones, cut them into 2 cm square diced chicken, mix them with salt and soy sauce, and use wet starch.

2. Remove the pedicels and seeds of pepper, wash and cut into 1cm square pieces; cut the green garlic into oblique sections; smash the Chinese prickly ash.

3. Mix soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, clear soup and wet starch into juice.

4. Put peanut oil in the frying pan over a high heat and heat it to 70%. Put the diced chicken into the pan and scatter it with a spoon. After about 20 seconds, remove it with a colander.

5. When the oil temperature rises to 70%, put the diced chicken into the pot and fry it until golden yellow. Pour the oil into the colander and drain the oil.

6. Leave oil in the pan and heat it to 60%. Add red pepper, green garlic and Chinese prickly ash, stir fry with salt, then add fried diced chicken, stir fry with juice, and put them into a plate.

 

Cooking skills

Stir fry spicy chicken, stress the use of firepower, speed, taste focus on salty fresh, slightly sour, slightly sweet, spicy, seasoning proportion is appropriate, in order to highlight the flavor of Hunan cuisine.

 

Characteristics of dishes

After the spicy chicken is cooked, the finished dish is rich in oil, rich in pepper flavor, tender and delicious chicken, and tastes salty, fresh and spicy.

 

Food Guide

nutritive value

chicken

Chicken protein content is high, and easy to digest, can enhance physical strength, strong body function.

Chicken contains phospholipids which play an important role in human growth and development. It is one of the important sources of fat and phospholipids in Chinese dietary structure.

Chicken has a good therapeutic effect on malnutrition, fear of cold, fatigue, irregular menstruation, anemia, weakness and so on.

 

Pepper

Pepper is rich in vitamin C, can control heart disease and coronary atherosclerosis, reduce cholesterol; in addition, it also contains more antioxidants, can prevent cancer and other chronic diseases; at the same time, it can also make the respiratory tract smooth, to treat cough, cold.

 

matters needing attention

Chicken should not be eaten with soft shelled turtle, carp, crucian carp, rabbit meat, shrimp, scallion and garlic; it is easy to be poisoned when eating with sesame and chrysanthemum; it will cause diarrhea when eating with plum and rabbit meat; it will be inflamed when eating with mustard; it will cause dysentery when eating with dog kidney.

 

Hot pepper consumption also need to pay attention to, hemorrhoids patients eat will make Hemorrhoids Pain aggravation; chronic cholecystitis patients eat, easy to induce biliary colic; oral ulcer people eat hot pepper, will aggravate the pain; hyperthyroidism patients eat hot pepper, will make the heart beat faster.

 

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