- March 10,2023
There is no holiday without chicken! The Hakka people will never lack chickens in hospitality. If there are no chickens on table, they will feel that they have neglected guests. Therefore, eating chicken is also a favorite of Hakka people. This is a group of chickens raised to eat and there are many ways to eat them.
Our family lives in countryside and we have a small yard for raising chickens, so we love farm chickens we raise most of all. They are usually grown for more than half a year before they are slaughtered and eaten. Some chickens are bred to lay eggs. Yes, they will be raised for seven or eight years. It's definitely a real old chicken. As long as she has eggs, she won't want to kill her, no matter how old she is.
Having said that, chicken recipe I want to share with you today is a little special, and it's also a favorite method of preparing chicken for Hakka people. The steps are uncomplicated and ingredients used are also commonly used. Relatively ordinary, but chicken is very fragrant and tasty!
If you want to try it, keep reading specific steps below;
Step 1: After chicken is killed and cleaned, be sure to dry water, then put dried chicken on a plate, cut off chicken butt, of course, you can not cut it if you like it. Add onion and ginger, enough salt, some light soy sauce, oyster sauce and spread evenly. You need to be patient to distribute it evenly and rub inside of chicken belly to make it delicious.
Step 2. Massage chicken for five to six minutes, then cover with cling film, marinate chicken for 5-8 hours and refrigerate during hot weather.
Step 3. Soak dried shiitake mushrooms in advance, and then cut soaked shiitake mushrooms in half. Too much is not needed. If you don't like shiitake leaves, don't use them
Step 4. Prepare a dry lotus leaf, boil water in a saucepan, rinse lotus leaf and blanch it for about a minute
Step 5: Remove marinated chicken. My chicken was marinated for 6 hours. If you want more flavor, you can marinate longer. Put prepared shiitake mushrooms in chicken belly Go inside, put a layer of oil on lotus leaf, put chicken in lotus leaf and wrap it up
Step 6: Wrap it with a piece of cotton thread, tie it tightly, and then cook some more chopped green onions, first pour oil into bottom of rice cooker, then spread green onions on it. , and fold wrapped chicken together. Put it in a pot
Step 7. Cover pot, press the cook button and cook for 25 minutes.
Step 8. Cook for 25 minutes. If it sticks together, let it simmer for about 10 minutes, then turn chicken over. After turning, cover pan with a lid and continue cooking for another 20 minutes.
Step 9. When time is almost up, you can eat it straight from pot, tear it up with your hands, or chop it into pieces with a knife. Personally, I prefer to tear with my hands. .
This fragrant and delicious Hakka chicken with lotus leaves is ready. Try it if you like! The skin is fragrant, and meat is smooth and tastes very good, it is really more pleasant to eat.
