Cooking tips: Boiled chicken, how to cook boiled chicken

Prepare:

- 1 chicken: 1.2-1.5kg (should get the seller to have surgery), 1 pinch of reserved seeds, scallions and ginger 50g, peanut oil 20g, 1 salt

Making:

Chicken after buying, bring preliminary processing. Use salt to rub the chicken skin and rinse with clean water, dry the inside and outside of the chicken with a paper towel.

Prepare a boiling pot, drop the chicken in, pour the water in, boil it. Then drop the ginger, green onion, and reserved seeds (should tie a bucket to the seeds without falling off), 1 minute salt and then simmer for 15 minutes. Note, depending on the size of the chicken, the boiling time may change, increase or decrease.

Out of time, turn off the stove, soak the chicken in the pot for another 7-10 minutes and then take it out and drain for a while.

Prepare a bowl of cold ice, drop the boiled chicken right away for 5 minutes. When chicken skin meets cold ice, it shrinks and is very brittle. Then just bring the chicken into tight pieces to eat.

So, with this kind of chicken boil, the skin is yellow, shiny, very brittle without the need for technology.

How to choose chicken

To get a good boiled chicken, the selection of chicken is very important. Usually it is good to choose chicken weighing about 1.5 kg to 2 kg. If you choose a chicken that is too big to boil, it will crack. If you don't have time to make chicken, you can choose to buy ready-made chicken and pay attention to the following points:

+ A delicious chicken will have a compact, firm, small breast.

+ Chicken skin is golden, there is a dark yellow spot like wings, breast, back, chicken skin without bruising, cyanosis, no dark spots, bruises, nodules .

+ If the chicken skin is tough, the gold is smooth, the chicken fat is white and the chicken is impregnated with gold.

+ Firm, fresh chicken, no smell, rancid odor, antibiotic smell .

+ Using the hand to press on the chicken, the chicken breast or the thigh to check, if the meat is firm, the chicken is delicious, and if the meat is slippery, slippery, deformed, it is concave with a lot of water. also mixed with borax, this should absolutely not buy this chicken, to avoid affecting health.