You Yu Xun Ji

Youyu County is the central producing area of Youyubian Chicken, a famous fine chicken breed in Shanxi. Youyubian chicken is one of the famous excellent chicken breeds in China. This kind of chicken grows fast and its meat is extremely delicious. It is an excellent raw material for cooking chicken dishes. Ingredients: 20 chickens, 30 grams of pepper, 15 grams of aniseed, 25 grams of fennel, and proper amount of salt and soy sauce. Production method: 1. Material selection: Choose Youyubian chicken as the main material. 2. Slaughter: Slaughter the chicken, drain the blood, soak, scald and comb the hair, open the shoulder and back, take out the chicken gizzard, and cut off the esophagus. Then open the anus below, take out the internal organs, esophagus and trachea, and rinse them with clean water. 3. Shaping: nest chicken feet in the abdomen, with wings pinned to the back and head and neck pinned to the back. 4. Braised chicken: put the chicken in the pot according to the size, put it in a gauze bag with seasoning, add clear water (or old soup) until the chicken body is submerged, add soy sauce and salt, increase the fire to boil the soup, skim off the floating foam, and simmer on low fire until it is cooked. 5. Smoking: Smoked chicken should be made of cedar wood powder, and willow wood powder can be used without cedar wood powder. Fumigation and baking methods can be used in cauldron or other methods. Put the chicken in a smoking pot and smoke it with semi-burning sawdust for 20 minutes. Smoked and roasted chicken can be eaten with a layer of sesame oil. Product features: red color, tender meat, delicious taste, easy to preserve, and generally can be stored for one week to ten days in summer without deterioration.
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