How to cook baby chicken

Compared with ordinary chickens, the bones of young chickens are more brittle, so young chickens are also a type of chicken suitable for most age groups. And when stewing a young chicken, most people also find that it is not easy to stew it until it is tender. The reason why there are a large number of young chickens on the market is that young chickens have a very high growth efficiency and their meat is relatively tender. Generally speaking, the main way to eat young chicken is to make fried chicken, so what are the methods for stewing young chicken?

How to make delicious soup with baby chicken

1. Boiled baby chicken

1. Main ingredients

A young chicken.

2. Ingredients

One Codonopsis pilosula, a few wolfberries, 2 slices of ginger, and 2 red dates.

3. Steps

①Kill the chicken, clean it, cut it into small pieces and put it in a bowl.

②Prepare Codonopsis pilosula, wolfberry, ginger slices and red dates.

③ Add the ingredients in (2) to the chicken and add an appropriate amount of broth or clear soup.

④After closing the lid, put it in a bag and tie it tightly.

⑤ Add appropriate amount of water to the pot and put the bowl in.

⑥ Cover the pot, turn the water to a low heat and simmer for 1 hour.

2. Boiled Chicken and Ginseng Soup

1. Main ingredients

400 grams of soaked sea cucumber, 1500 grams of young chicken, 25 grams of ham slices, 50 grams of soaked mushrooms, 50 grams of bamboo shoots, 500 grams of chicken bones, and 250 grams of small ribs.

2. Accessories

6 grams of fine salt, 35 grams of cooking wine, 10 grams of onion, 10 grams of ginger, 5 grams of MSG, and 1000 grams of broth.

3. Steps

① Wash the soaked sea cucumber, blanch it in boiling water and take it out.

② Chop the chicken bones and small ribs into pieces, blanch them together with the young chicken in boiling water, take them out and wash off the blood.

③Remove the stems of the mushrooms and wash away the mud and sand for later use.

④ Put the sea cucumber and young chicken in the soup bowl, put the bamboo shoots slices on both ends of the space between the sea cucumber and the young chicken, put the ham slices in the center, add cooking wine, MSG, salt, scallion, ginger, chicken bones, small ribs, broth, cover with lid, steam in a steamer until soft, take out, remove the chicken bones and ribs, remove the scallion and ginger, and it is ready to eat.

3. Stewed Chicken with King Oyster Mushroom

1. Main ingredients

1000g baby chicken, 100g king oyster mushroom

2. Steps

① Clean the chicken and blanch it in ginger water to remove blood and impurities.

②Wash the king oyster mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms, cut them into small pieces and set aside

③ Soak the bamboo fungus in warm and light salt water for 10 minutes. During this period, the water needs to be changed 2-3 times. At the same time, squeeze it carefully, cut off the tail and the top fan part of the fungus, leaving only the middle white mushroom body part, and cut it into 2-3 cm long pieces

④Put the baby chicken, king oyster mushroom and shiitake mushroom into a stew pot, add water and cooking wine, and stew for 120 minutes.

⑤Add the processed bamboo fungus and continue stewing for 60 minutes

⑥ Pour in wolfberry, add salt and season, then it is ready to eat after 5 minutes.

4. Secret recipe of stewed baby chicken with lily bulbs

1. Materials

1 baby chicken, 1 lotus root, half a raw corn, 2-3 lemons, 4-5 shiitake mushrooms, 1 box of lilies

2. Ingredients

Onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, aniseed, Erguotou (blue bottle), rock sugar, 4-5 jujubes, wolfberry, soy sauce, a little salt and chicken essence, a little sesame oil

3. Steps

① Wash the chicken thoroughly, dry it, cut off the head and tail, stuff the chicken with some green onions, ginger, garlic, peppercorns, 1 jujube, and 1 lemon, and set aside to marinate.

② Prepare all the seasonings and set aside. Wash the lotus root and cut it into thick slices. Soak the mushrooms in boiling water and set aside.

③ Fry the chopped lotus root in oil, sauté the scallion, ginger and garlic until fragrant, then add the lotus root and stir-fry for a while without adding any seasoning. Turn off the heat and set aside.

④Put the baby chicken into the pressure cooker, along with all the seasonings, soaked mushrooms and fried lotus roots.

⑤ Pour a cap of Erguotou. The higher the alcohol content, the better.

⑥ Add boiling water over the chicken, add soy sauce, a little salt, and a little chicken essence

⑦ Add a little sesame oil before serving

After reading the cooking methods of young chicken compiled by the editor above, I believe everyone has mastered some tips on how to stew young chicken to make it delicious. Young chicken soup is not only delicious, but also has extremely high nutritional value. It is a food suitable for all ages. In fact, you can also add some ginseng, angelica, mushrooms and other foods when stewing chicken soup. The chicken soup made in this way will taste very good.