Tips for Choosing Delicious Chicken
When buying chicken, it is best to choose local chicken. If you decide to buy live chicken, pay attention to choosing healthy ones. To identify healthy chickens, you can look for the following signs: shiny feathers, bright feathers, firm body, large tongue scales, and bright eyes.
For processed local chicken, look for a chicken with a light yellow natural color and even thin skin all over the body. When checking the chicken meat, consider its firmness, small cartilage, and yellow fat not accumulating much in the neck and thighs.
Avoid choosing industrially processed boiled chicken as they are often soft, not crispy, and lack delicious taste. To ensure food quality, prioritize choosing local chicken or free-range chicken.
Cooking Chicken
When you bring the chicken home, the first step is to wash the chicken thoroughly and rub salt evenly on its surface, then proceed to wash it well to ensure cleanliness. If you plan to use the chicken for a meal, look for a female chicken. Female chickens usually have small bones, white and tender meat, bright yellow skin, sweet taste, and pleasant aroma…
After cleaning the chicken, remove all the excess fat on the belly and neck of the chicken for later use, especially for roasting and collecting chicken fat…
Next, place the chicken in a boiling pot, ensuring there is enough water to cover the chicken. Add dried shallots, onions, or scallion roots to the pot while the chicken is boiling (if you want to cook chicken soup, you can also add a few slices of ginger).
Note that if you intend to use the chicken broth for soup, limit the addition of ginger to the boiling water as ginger can affect the taste of other vegetables when cooked together.
Tips for Delicious Boiled Chicken
Start by adding 2 large spoons of salt to the pot, ensuring the water has a medium taste, similar to when cooking soup. Place the pot on the stove and bring it to medium heat. When the water starts to boil, reduce the heat to a lower level and let the pot continue to boil for about 10 to 20 minutes depending on the size of the chicken. Then, turn off the heat.
Before proceeding, soak the chicken in the pot for about 30 minutes. Then, take out the chicken and rinse it under cold filtered water to make the chicken meat crispy and delicious. During the rinsing process, carefully remove any residue and dirt stuck on the chicken meat, then let the chicken meat drain.
While the chicken is being boiled, you can also separate the fat from the belly and neck of the chicken for later use. Place the chicken fat in a pan and heat it up. Note that when you put the fat in the pan for the first time, leave a safe distance to avoid splashing oil. Heat the pan at medium heat, and when the fat starts to melt, reduce the heat to low to avoid burning the fat.
Tips for Boiling Chicken to Have Golden and Attractive Skin
First, take about 20 – 30ml of fat from the chicken after frying and mix it with turmeric. This is a secret to make the chicken skin shiny yellow and attractive to the eye.
If you use fresh turmeric, after removing the excess fat, finely chop the turmeric and mix them into the chicken fat in the pan. Cook the pan for about 30 seconds to 1 minute, then turn off the heat and use this fat to baste the chicken.
If you use turmeric powder, put the turmeric powder into a small bowl, then pour the hot fat from the pan into it and stir well. Wait for the turmeric fat to settle and steep, do not heat it to avoid a strong turmeric smell (compared to putting turmeric directly into the boiling pot).
After the fat has settled, use this layer of fat to baste the chicken. This process will make the chicken skin beautifully yellow without affecting the taste balance (compared to mixing turmeric directly into the boiling pot).
To have beautifully cut chicken meat, let the chicken cool completely before proceeding. You can put the chicken in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to 1 hour before cutting, which will make the chicken meat look better when cooking. The excess chicken fat after boiling can also be extracted for use, such as stir-frying vegetables or cooking delicious chicken rice.
To have a fresh, bright yellow, and smooth chicken skin, after boiling, immediately immerse the chicken in boiling water to cool, or use cold water to cool it down. Wait until the chicken is completely cool before placing it on a plate. If you skip this step, the chicken skin can become dry and unappetizing.
Finally, to make the chicken meat less watery, you can take a piece of turmeric, peel it, crush it, and squeeze out the juice. Mix this turmeric water with the chicken fat that was previously fried, and then brush it onto the chicken. The result will be a boiled chicken with a shiny, smooth, and attractive yellow skin.
Wish you success in cooking delicious and tempting boiled chicken!
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