Rooster with chestnuts

Chestnut is a common thing. It not only has the function of nourishing the body, but also tastes delicious. It has the effect of stopping bleeding and reducing swelling. There are many ways to cook chestnuts. It can be fried, boiled, or made into chestnut roasted chicken. Chestnut roasted chicken is a very popular food. Although chestnut roasted chicken is delicious, many people don’t know how to make it. The following introduces the method of roasting chestnuts with rooster.

How to cook rooster and chestnuts

Method 1

Ingredients: 1000g hen, 200g chestnuts (fresh), 10g starch (broad beans), 2g salt, 50g vegetable oil, 30g soy sauce, 25g shallots, 20g lard (refined).

1. Wash the hen, split the head and claws in half, cut the breast and wings into 6 pieces, cut the other parts into 3 cm square pieces, chop the chicken legs into two sections, chop the chicken neck into 4 cm sections, break the chicken wrist into 4 pieces, and cut small square patterns.

2. Cut the chestnut shell into a cross shape with a knife, put it into a boiling water pot and cook it over high heat for 5 minutes, then take it out and shell it.

3. Place the wok on high heat, pour in vegetable oil and heat until 70% hot, add the chicken pieces and fry for 5 minutes.

4. Pour out the oil from the pot, add 600 ml chicken broth, chestnuts, soy sauce, salt, sugar, chicken gizzards, chicken liver and chicken chunks and cook over high heat for 10 minutes until the meat is tender and the chestnuts are glutinous. Then add cooked lard, MSG, scallion segments, thicken with wet starch, remove from the pot and serve.

Method 2

Ingredients: a young hen (weighing about 1000 grams), 200 grams of chestnuts, 250 grams of sesame oil (about 75 grams consumed), appropriate amounts of lard, chicken broth, MSG, sugar, wet starch, nitrate water, soy sauce, refined salt, and garlic.

1. Kill the hen, remove the internal organs, head, claws, wash it, and cut off the neck. Split the chicken in half, cut the breast and wings into six pieces, cut the other parts into 2.4 cm square pieces, cut the chicken legs into two sections, cut the chicken neck into 3 cm long segments, cut the chicken wrist into four pieces, cut into small squares, use a knife to cut the shell of the chestnut into a straight shape, put it in a pot of boiling water, cook on high heat for 5 minutes, take out the shell, and peel off the inner skin;

2. Place the wok on high heat, add sesame oil and heat it to 70% hot, put in the chicken and fry for 5 minutes, then remove with a colander, drain off the remaining oil in the wok, add chicken broth, chestnuts, soy sauce, salt, sugar, chicken pus, and liver, and simmer on high heat for 10 minutes until the meat is tender and the chestnuts are glutinous, then add lard, MSG, and garlic, dilute with wet starch and thicken, then serve.

Benefits of eating chicken

1. Lose weight and keep fit

Chicken breast is high in protein and low in fat, making it a popular meat for people who want to lose weight or keep fit.

2. Lowers Cholesterol

Chicken breast is low in fat and high in vitamins, which can help lower cholesterol.

3. Promote intellectual development

It has antioxidant and certain detoxification effects, and is especially effective in improving heart and brain functions and promoting children's intellectual development.

4. Treatment of physical weakness

According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, chicken has the effects of warming the middle and replenishing qi, replenishing essence and marrow, benefiting the five internal organs, and replenishing deficiency. It can treat symptoms such as fatigue and dizziness caused by physical weakness.

5. Nourish liver blood

In traditional Chinese medicine, chicken enters the liver meridian and therefore has the effect of replenishing liver blood. When women give birth naturally, they will bleed a lot. The liver is an organ that stores blood. At this time, stewing some chicken soup can achieve the effect of replenishing liver blood.