Chinese Food
Crystal chicken
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Crystal chicken is a special traditional dish in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province. It belongs to Guangdong cuisine. Chen Liuqi, a famous chef of the Qing Dynasty, was born in Zhanjiang. Chen Liuqi learned from his grandfather and loved to eat chicken since he was a child. Therefore, he had unique experience in the way of eating and cooking chicken. He also created one of the special ingredients for chicken. It was used for curing and dipping chicken. Through the spread of generations, it has become a special famous dish in Zhanjiang - Zhanjiang crystal chicken (also known as steamed chicken, fragrant chicken, classical chicken, and barrel chicken).
Cooking ingredients
Cooking Steps
Step1:First, wash the whole chicken and put it in the basket to drain the water. First, put 20 grams of pure peanut oil on it. Then, put 18G of Yuhao crystal chicken special ingredients on the chicken chest and skin (9g inside and outside respectively). Marinate for 5 minutes. Boil the water in the steamer. Put the marinated chicken in the steamer and steam it for 10 minutes. Turn the chicken over and steam it for 8 minutes. Take out the whole cooked chicken and cut it into pieces. Put them in the dish orderly. Steamed chicken When cooked, there will be about 100 ml chicken soup in the steaming plate. Pour all the chicken soup on the chopped chicke
Cooking tips:Precautions ⚠️ 1、 When the chicken is put on the special ingredients and peanut oil for Yuhao crystal chicken, it should be operated in the steaming plate. Do not let the ingredients and peanut oil of crystal chicken leak out. Otherwise, it will not taste enough. Secondly, the time of steaming chicken depends on the size of the chicken and the size of the fire. About 15 to 20 minutes. If the steaming time is too long, the chicken will not be tender and smooth. If the time is too short, it will not be cooked. (there are two good ways to distinguish the unripe from the unripe - 1. If you use a chopstick to easily poke through the body of the chicken, it will be basically ripe; 2. Cut the chicken leg bone, the bright red is unripe, the black is over ripe, and the dark red is the best maturity.) 3、 If you can't buy Yuhao crystal chicken ingredients, you can make your own seasoning powder (10g salt, 10g chicken powder, 2G ginger powder) instead. But the taste is not good. There are skills in making delicious dishes.
