Spicy Chicken Feet
Overview
I am my mother’s youngest child. When I was young, my mother always said that girls would comb their hair after eating chicken feet. To this day, the chicken feet from the chicken that my mother stews for New Year’s Eve dinner every year are reserved for me to eat when I get home. I am over 40 years old. Every time I think of the chicken feet my mother left for me, and every time I think of my nearly 80-year-old mother staring at me eating the chicken feet she made sure to leave for me, my heart becomes very soft until my eyes are moist. My mother's love made me fall in love with this kind of food. I cook it carefully and I can always relive my mother's love when I enjoy the delicious food!
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Ingredients
Steps
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Boil 8 mature chicken feet, remove nails, cut into palms for easy flavor, and set aside.
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Heat a dry pan and stir-fry the garlic slices and ginger until fragrant.
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Dandan brand Pixian douban is the main ingredient of this spicy chicken feet.
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Stir-fry the garlic and ginger until fragrant, add cooked oil, add Sichuan peppercorns, peppercorns, star anise, Pixian bean paste and stir-fry to make the red oil chili sauce. In this step, you need to control the heat, as the bean paste will easily stick to the bottom of the pot. After the oil is hot, turn off the heat and stir-fry.
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Stir-fry the red oil chili sauce, add the chicken feet and stir-fry until evenly mixed. The chicken feet are evenly colored and covered with red oil.
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Stir-fry the chicken feet evenly coated with red oil and pour water along the wall of the pot so that the water covers the chicken feet as much as possible. Add a few more slices of ginger to the water. Cook over high heat.
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Add a little chicken essence to the boiling soup pot and add a little salt when it is ready to come out of the pot. I personally think Pixian Douban is a bit salty, so I just add a little salt when cooking. I have personally tried it without adding salt, and the taste seems to be a little worse.
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Reduce the heat to medium heat to remove the soup and remove from the pot. It is best not to make the soup completely dry, because after the dish is completely cooled, the soup will condense into chicken jelly, which is delicious and beautiful. According to our Chinese concept, you should eat what you eat to replenish your strength. I think eating chicken feet when you exercise a lot can really replenish your foot strength. This may be more reliable than saying that you can comb your hair after eating it.
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Foreigners sometimes laugh at Chinese people who dare to eat anything. In my opinion, all delicious food must be on the table. Cut a bamboo leaf to make a claw-shaped decoration, and add a branch of forget-me-not. This dish reminds me of my mother and the story of my childhood, which continues to this day.
