Chicken stew is so loved by people that it is a well-known delicacy because of its delicious taste and tender texture. We used to blanch the chicken first, thinking that it would remove the fishiness. Blanching can indeed remove the blood from the chicken, but the chicken is old and woody after blanching, and the taste is very poor.

When stewing chicken, never blanch it directly. The chef of the hotel will teach you three skills, and the stewed chicken will be fragrant and tender, not fishy or woody, and you will never have to spend money to eat in a restaurant again!

Tips for stewing chicken:

1. Clean the chicken meat with salt

After the chicken is chopped, do not pour it into the pot immediately, the correct way is to wash the chicken with salted water, so that the stewed chicken does not taste fishy, delicious and rich. Fill a small basin with cold water, then add 1 tablespoons of salt, put the meat in it and soak for half an hour. Pour out the blood and scrub it with salt water a few more times.

Doing so will effectively remove the fishy smell of the chicken, and the soup will be delicious. And the blood and water in the chicken, the dirt will flow out automatically. When the chicken absorbs the moisture, the stewed meat becomes more tender.

2. Do not put pepper and star anise

Many people like to put a lot of spices when stewing chicken, thinking that the more spices, the less fishy the smell of the chicken, and the more fragrant the boiled meat. But in fact, these spices do not remove the smell of meat, but rely on their own rich fragrance to cover up the fishy smell. The cost of this is that the original flavor of the chicken is lost.

3. Add salt before cooking

When many people stew chicken, they like to put salt at the beginning, so that the stewed chicken is very old, the taste is very poor, and it does not taste at all. Adding salt too early will cause the moisture of the ingredients to be lost, and the stewed meat will choke on it. Add salt before cooking, which can not only ensure the saltiness of the meat, but also make the taste more tender.

Recommended recipe: Beer stewed chicken

Main ingredients: chicken, beer, green onion, ginger, garlic, soy sauce, cooking wine, star anise, bay leaf

Steps:

4. Wash the surface of the chicken and chop it into small pieces. Fill a basin with water, add a spoonful of salt, and remove the chicken from the pan, scrubbing it by hand all the time. During this period, the water was changed many times, and it was possible to wash it very clean about 0 or 0 times.

20. Drain the water of the chicken, add oyster sauce, cooking wine and soy sauce and mix evenly, and marinate the chicken for 0 minutes. At this time, be careful not to add salt to avoid spoiling the texture of the chicken.

3. Wash the green onion and ginger, cut it with a knife, and then cut a handful of dried chilies.

30. When there is a slight smoke in the pot, pour the green onion ginger, spices, and bean paste into the pot, stir-fry for 0 seconds, and then pour the chicken into it. Stir-fry all the way over high heat to bring out the flavor of the chicken.

1. After the surface of the chicken changes color, pour in 0 bottles of beer and half a bowl of hot water. When stewing chicken, remember to be sure to heat the water so that the stewed chicken is more tender.

6. After the beer is put into the pot, adjust the high heat to medium-low heat, and the meat stewed over low heat will taste more mellow and more tender. When stewing chicken, pay attention to the inside of the pot. If the soup gradually decreases and becomes thicker, it means that the chicken has already absorbed the flavor.

6. Don't rush the stewed chicken out of the pot, taste it first. If the taste is right, you can taste it out of the pan. If the taste is light, add salt before removing from the pan.

7. After the chicken is out of the pot, sprinkle with chopped green onions and coriander to garnish, and the delicious and tender chicken will be stewed. The smell of the chicken that comes out of this way fills the whole kitchen. The taste is not firewood, and there is no fishy smell to eat, which is very delicious.

Summary: If you want to make a pot of tender and delicious chicken at home, the above 3 tips must be mastered. Follow the above steps to stew the chicken, and the resulting chicken will taste fresh and tender. If you also love chicken, be sure to give it a try!

Proofread by Zhuang Wu