(Fujian cuisine) Chicken with distiller's grains

Overview

Green red wine is a traditional rice wine variety characteristic of Fuzhou, Fujian Province. It uses Fujian's unique Gutian red yeast rice as the saccharification fermentation agent, selects the best glutinous rice, and mixes it with the secret medicine white yeast. It is brewed according to traditional techniques and modern biotechnology. It is amber in color and has a smooth and long taste. Generally, Fuzhou people like to add green and red wine to things like chicken, duck, ribs, pig's trotters, etc., or stew or pot them, which gives them a mellow taste and rich nutrition. For example, when a woman is in confinement, she eats native chicken stewed in green and red wine.

Tags

• hot dishes
• fujian cuisine
• lunch
• dinner
• chicken
• ginger
• liquor lees
• onions
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Liquor lees is the lees left over from brewing green and red wine, and is available in local markets.

   

2. 2 Prepare ingredients. Cut half of the native chicken into pieces, you can blanch it or not.

   

3. 3 Spread each piece of chicken evenly with wine lees and marinate in the refrigerator overnight.

   

4. 4 Pour a small amount of oil into a hot pan, add ginger and stir-fry until fragrant.

   

5. 5 Stir-fry the chicken over medium-low heat. The heat should not be too high, otherwise the rice wine grains will easily burn. In this step, you can also wash off the distiller's grains before frying them in the pot, so that the chicken soup looks fresher.

   

6. 6 After the chicken is fragrant, add water, just enough to cover the chicken, and add a green onion knot. Cover and bring to a boil.

   

7. 7 After boiling, skim off the scum and grease. Simmer over medium-low heat for ten minutes. The time depends on the individual. If you like the meat to be more tender, you can cook it for a longer time. I like it a little firmer, the chicken skin is crispy, tasty and chewy.

   

8. 8 After cooking, add some salt to taste and put the chicken in a basin first.

   

9. 9 Then filter out the lees from the chicken soup.

   

10. 10 Well, that’s it in the end. Isn’t the red chicken soup very appetizing?

    

11. 11 This chicken soup is very delicious, but it is relatively hot. If you drink too much, you will easily get angry! Also, you can’t drive after drinking! I don’t know if this recipe of distiller’s rice chicken is authentic or not, but this is how my family always does it😄