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Chapter 217 Dongan Chicken

Wang Yinghua shook his head, no matter what, after this time, he must take Sun Hao to see a psychiatrist.In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that Sun Hao didn't show any performance on weekdays, only showing up during the competition, and returning to normal after the competition, Wang Yinghua would have forced Sun Hao to see a psychiatrist long ago.

But even so, Wang Yinghua planned to take Sun Hao to see a psychiatrist after this time.

Sun Hao and Jiang Yang started to move, and other people in the kitchen gave way one after another, allowing the two of them to perform to their heart's content.

The ingredients in Hongfeng Restaurant are very rich, so there is no need to worry about the lack of ingredients.

What Jiang Yang is going to do is the dish he is most confident in now - boiled cabbage!
What Sun Hao wants to cook is also his specialty dish - Dong'an chicken!

Dong'an Chicken is quite famous. It was originally called Vinegar Chicken. It is known as the first of the eight major Hunan dishes, and it is also one of the state banquet dishes.

There are many stories about the origin and allusions of Dong'an chicken, and it has gone through three dynasties from birth, evolution, and fame.

In the Western Jin Dynasty, it was called "Old Vinegar Chicken".In the Western Jin Dynasty, in the first year of Yongxi Emperor Huidi established a county government on the shore of Yingshui, called Yingyang County.The county magistrate at that time hung a plaque for the county government, held a grand celebration ceremony, called all the elders of the village to come to congratulate, and invited local famous chefs to hold knives and spoons and hold a grand banquet.According to the customs at that time, the fifth course of a regular banquet was chicken, which was called "chicken opening".The "chicken opening" tasted a little sour that time, and this sourness whetted the appetite of diners.After the banquet was over, the county magistrate called the chef and asked him why he thought of adding vinegar to the chicken for seasoning.The cook hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, forgive me! I didn't do it on purpose. I was in a hurry at the time. I mistakenly put mature vinegar as cooking wine. In desperation, I immediately added some pepper and ginger to get rid of the smell of vinegar. Don't make an example. Please, Mr. County Magistrate. Forgive me!" The county magistrate laughed and said happily, "Forgive me for what crime! Get up! Everyone says this chicken with vinegar is delicious! You are called to reward you!" Created a famous dish.Since then, the practice of "Old Vinegar Chicken" has spread among the people.

In the late Qing Dynasty, it was called "Guan Bao Chicken".At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Xi Baotian, a general of the Hunan Army, made great contributions to suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Miao uprising in Guizhou.In his later years, Xi Baotian returned home due to illness and lived in Wujiaqiao.Once, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Liu Kunyi were guests at Xi Baotian's house, and this "aged vinegar chicken" was served at the banquet. The "Mature Vinegar Chicken" is not only hot and sour, but also crispy.Zeng Guofan and others ate it and were full of praise. When Zuo Zongtang asked about the name of the dish, Xi Baotian wanted to say "Chen Vinegar Chicken", but thought that the name was too earthy, so he hesitated to explain.Zeng Guofan interjected and said: "This is a specialty of Xi Guan Bao's family, it's called 'Guan Bao***!" Zuo Zongtang and Liu Kunyi echoed: "Yes! Famous generals have a famous dish, Guan Bao Chicken, a good name!" Since then, This dish was passed to the court.

In the Republic of China, it was called "Dong'an Chicken". In the first phase of the Northern Expedition in 1926, Tang Shengzhi, a famous patriotic general of the Chinese Kuomintang, served as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition.After the victory of the Northern Expedition, Tang Shengzhi settled in Nanjing.In order to celebrate the victory of the Northern Expedition, he hosted a banquet in Nanjing to entertain his subordinates and colleagues, and served a "Guan Bao Chicken" during the banquet.His personal chef is from Wujiaqiao, and he is more particular about cooking.The first choice of chicken must be a hen that has never laid eggs, weighing no more than a catty and a half; the fire is just right when making it, and the blood in the chicken bone is bright red; It cost 16 yuan, and it was placed on a plate, which happened to be a whole chicken.After the subordinates and colleagues ate it, they all said that this dish is beautiful in shape, bright in color, fresh and tender in texture, hot and sour and refreshing, fat but not greasy. Tender, crisp and delicious.Asked what the name of this dish is, Tang Shengzhi was about to speak, when Gu Boxu reminded him: "Hometown style home cuisine." Tang Shengzhi immediately said: "This is a special dish of Dong'an, called 'Dong'an Chicken'." Tang Shengzhi is a foreigner, When entertaining guests, "Dong'an chicken" is often used as a banquet dish.Guo Moruo's "Hong Bo Ji" also records: During the Anti-Japanese War, Tang Shengzhi hosted a banquet for him in his mansion in Shuiluzhou, Changsha. Among them, Dong'an chicken was particularly delicious. In February 1972, during the visit of the president of country M to China, Taizu hosted a banquet in honor of Nixon, and Dong'an chicken was also served during the banquet.Nixon ate and praised, and after returning home, he also praised the excellent taste of Dong'an chicken.Soon spread to Southeast Asia, North America, Jordan, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and other countries.Since then, Dong'an chicken has been listed as a national banquet dish, ranking first among the eight major Hunan dishes.

Sun Hao began to learn this famous dish of Hunan Province slowly since he followed Wang Yinghua.It has been more than eight years so far.

Sun Hao was able to learn this dish because Zeng Yi's famous dish is Dong'an chicken!
As Zeng Yi's apprentice, Wang Yinghua naturally knows this dish.As Wang Yinghua's disciple, Sun Hao has no reason not to learn.

Although Zeng Yi is unwilling to teach cooking skills to outsiders, he is really generous to his own people.His famous dish, Dong'an Chicken, was not reserved, but passed on to Wang Yinghua.But Wang Yinghua's Dong'an Chicken is still not as good as Zeng Yi's.

And Sun Hao's Dong'an Chicken is not comparable to Wang Yinghua's, but even so, Sun Hao's Dong'an Chicken is also his best dish.

Jiang Yang had heard of the name of Dong'an Chicken a long time ago, but this was the first time he had seen someone cook it.

He processed the ingredients on hand and put them into the pot one by one to cook.

After all the ingredients were put into the pot, he was free, and the rest of the time was just waiting for the heat to boil.

In this regard, Jiang Yang is very experienced, and his daily routine practice is not for nothing.This boiled cabbage is a dish he must practice every day. With systematic time acceleration, Jiang Yang can cook a boiled cabbage in a very short time.

At this moment, he watched Sun Hao handle the ingredients. It was a small chicken. This kind of chicken is not available in ordinary restaurants. It should be specially purchased by Hongfeng Restaurant for cooking Andong chicken.

A chicken was eviscerated under Sun Hao's skillful knife technique, and the remaining chicken was slaughtered by Sun Hao for 16 yuan. Although the shape was different, Jiang Yang could tell that the size of the chicken was not much different!

This is scary. Every part of a chicken is different. To cut into 16 yuan chicken with similar size, you need to have a deep understanding of the structure of chickens.This is not just proficiency, it also requires skill and constant practice.

Jiang Yang frowned slightly, this Sun Hao's cooking skills...is not like this usually.Jiang Yang didn't say he knew each other very well after getting along for more than half a month, but he could still see Sun Hao's general cooking skills.Absolutely not as good as it is now!

If it was hidden, then... Sun Hao hid it too deeply.Immediately, Jiang Yang shook his head. It should be impossible to hide, after all, many small actions will expose a chef's problem.It is not impossible to deliberately hide clumsiness, but some habitual actions are not so easy to hide, and people who get along with each other often can roughly judge it.

At this moment, Sun Hao felt like a different person to Jiang Yang.

The chicken is cut up, and the rest is cooked in the pot.This is to remove the earthy smell of chicken and increase the maturity of chicken.

However, unlike the usual handling of chicken, the heat here is very important.The chicken should be seven times ripe. If it is too ripe, the taste of the fried chicken will not be tender enough.

Sun Hao is very experienced and has a good grasp of this step.

Even Zeng Yi couldn't pick out the problem, watching Sun Hao's handling, he kept nodding his head.

Soon, Sun Hao processed the chicken, and the rest was fried in the wok.

(End of this chapter)