Choosing Good Chicken
To have a delicious boiled chicken, you need to choose fresh and good-quality chickens. Especially when you choose pre-slaughtered chickens, you need to be even more careful not to choose chickens injected with water or artificially fattened chickens. When choosing chickens, you should choose those with light yellow or yellowish color on the outside as these are signs of good-quality chickens.
In addition, you should check the meat’s elasticity. If the chicken meat has good elasticity, it indicates that it’s fresh and good. On the other hand, if the meat lacks elasticity, it shows that the chicken is not good and should be avoided. Besides, you can also check the meat’s smell. If the chicken has a pleasant smell, it is a good choice. However, if the chicken has a difficult-to-smell, unpleasant, or strange smell, it is best to stay away.
Easy Way to Boil Chicken without Water
Boiling chicken with ginger and scallion.
– 1 chicken.
– 1 fresh ginger.
– half a cup of white wine or vinegar, salt.
– soup powder, cooking oil.
– ginger, scallion.
Steps to Boil Chicken without Water using an electric rice cooker
Step 1: Take half of the ginger and pound it, then mince the remaining ginger, mix it with white wine and rub it on the chicken, marinate for 30 minutes to remove the chicken’s odor. If you don’t have white wine, you can rub the chicken several times with a mixture of salt and vinegar in a 2:1 ratio, then rinse with clean water, rub soup powder on the chicken and let it marinate for about 2 hours to make the chicken more flavorful.
Step 2: Put some cooking oil on the bottom of the electric rice cooker and spread it evenly. Place thin slices of ginger and scallion to cover the bottom of the cooker, then place the chicken on top, cover it, and cook. When the cooker switches to the warm mode, wait for 10 minutes, then flip the chicken and cook it again.
Boiling chicken using a regular pot
Step 1: Put the chicken and some familiar spices like ginger, scallion, and a little salt in the boiling water. This step will make the chicken more flavorful and not bland after being cooked.
Step 2: Boil the chicken as usual. The larger the chicken, the longer it takes to boil. If you want to check if the chicken is cooked, you can insert a toothpick into the chicken meat to see if it’s still red or not. If the chicken is cooked, there will be no more red fluid coming out. At this point, you can turn off the heat.
Step 3: Take out the chicken and soak it in cold water. This helps the chicken have crispy skin after being eaten. Also, soaking the chicken in cold water prevents it from breaking apart when cutting.
That’s how you make a delicious and flavorful boiled chicken without water. Give it a try, and you’ll never want to go back to using water for boiled chicken.