Siyang fat chicken

Fat chicken, one of the famous specialties in Siyang, is often served as the "head scene" for weddings, funerals and celebrations of farmers. Guests' comments on the chef's skills are also based on the production of fat chicken. Fat chicken is very particular about its production. It is made of lean pork paste, egg yolk, steamed bread crumbs and starch, mixed with salt, onion, ginger, pepper, monosodium glutamate and other condiments, and then spread on a louver with a thickness of about one inch, and then spread on it with fat pork paste, peeled sweet potato paste, egg white, scallion and starch with a thickness of about half an inch. After it is done, put it in a steamer. After steaming, the upper layer is as white as jade and the lower layer is as red as agate. Generally, the knife is changed into pieces first, with spinach, ginger and onion and other condiments, and the three colors of green, red and white set each other off, which is very beautiful. When the fat chicken is served on the table, the meat is fragrant and delicious, and it is not fat or greasy, delicate and refreshing. According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers went south, and Shi Kefa, then the minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, sent his troops north to build a hundred-mile defense line in Taoyuan (now Siyang), Suqian and Huaiyin with the Yellow River as a barrier, and Shi Kefa's headquarters was located in Cui Town, Taoyuan County. On a cold morning, the chef was busy killing chickens and geese. Shi Kefa wondered, "What is the chef busy with in winter?" I didn't know it was for my birthday until I asked, and I couldn't help but get angry. "The enemy is at present, and I don't want to go to war. What birthday is there?" Let the guards send chickens, geese and pigs to the front to work. When he left, Shi Kefa told the chef, "Only one dish is allowed at noon." The chef pondered it over and over again, and made a delicious fat chicken with a piece of palm-sized fat and two eggs. After the improvement of the chef, the taste of fat chicken was more refined, forming this famous dish in Siyang with unique flavor.
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