Shandong Zaozhuang Spicy Chicken Recipe

Spicy chicken is a famous dish in Zaozhuang, Shandong. Its main characteristics are bright colors and strong taste. A lot of fresh peppers are added to the chicken. When choosing a chicken, it is best to choose a rooster, especially a local chicken. It tastes very good and has certain nutritional effects. In particular, the chicken contains high-quality protein, which has a conditioning and health-care effect on the body.

Shandong Zaozhuang Spicy Chicken Recipe

Ingredients: One local chicken and some potatoes

1Prepare the ingredients. Chop the chicken into small pieces, cut the green pepper diagonally, cut the chili pepper into sections, cut the green onion into small sections, flatten the garlic, and cut the ginger into large pieces

2. Boil the chicken and set aside

3. Add a proper amount of cooking oil to the pot, add pepper, onion, ginger and garlic and stir-fry until fragrant. Daodao uses non-GMO first-grade pressed peanut oil.

4 Slide in the chicken pieces, add a little dark soy sauce to color and continue frying until there is almost no water in the pan

5 Add enough water to the pot to almost cover the chicken pieces. Add light soy sauce for seasoning.

6 Add the chili pepper, stir-fry for a while, then cover with a lid and simmer for a while. Stir-fry from time to time to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot. If the water is almost dry and the chicken is still not cooked (take out a piece and taste it, be careful not to burn your tongue), add some more water and continue cooking for a while.

7 When the chicken is 9 cooked, add green pepper and stir-fry until the chicken is cooked through, season and reduce the sauce. Don’t let the juice dry up too much, you can eat it with rice or dip it in steamed buns! A big bowl of spicy chicken, when happiness suddenly comes, your mouth will water!

8 Put the vacuum-packed spicy chicken in the freezer. Take it out when you want to eat it, add some water to heat it up, and make sure it is heated thoroughly. You can also add some potato slices. The crispy potato slices absorb the soup and every slice is delicious!

Notice

1. You can add chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns according to your taste. However, in order to reflect the original flavor of this dish, it is best if the chili peppers can cover the chicken completely in the finished product, rather than having a few chili peppers and Sichuan peppercorns scattered among the chicken pieces.

2. Sprinkle salt on the chicken before frying. Make sure to sprinkle enough salt. If you add salt while frying the chicken, the salt will not be able to penetrate the chicken. This is because the shell of the chicken has been fried dry and the texture is relatively tight. The salt can only adhere to the surface of the chicken and affect the taste.

3. The oil used for frying chicken must be very hot, otherwise the surface of the chicken will not be fried dry even after a long time. Even if it is fried dry after waiting for a long time, it will be really dry, a piece of dead meat, very unpalatable, and have no taste at all. So the fire must be high so that the outside is crispy and the inside is still relatively tender.