Stewed chicken soup is a traditional home-cooked dish, and to stew a delicious chicken soup, you need to pay attention to the selection of ingredients, heat and seasoning. Here are the tips and steps for you to stew chicken soup.
First, the selection of materials
1.Choose fresh chicken: Fresh chicken is rich in nutrients and tender, making it an ideal ingredient for stewed chicken broth. When buying chicken, pay attention to the appearance and smell of the chicken, fresh chicken should have a light pink color, the meat is elastic, and there is no odor.
2.Prepare the ingredients: When stewing chicken soup, you can add some ingredients appropriately, such as red dates, wolfberries, ginger slices, green onions, etc., which can increase the nutritional value and taste of chicken soup.
2. Stewing skills.
1.Blanching chicken: Blanching the chicken in boiling water can remove blood and impurities from the chicken and make the stewed chicken soup clearer. When blanching, you can add some ginger slices and cooking wine to the water to remove the fishy smell of the chicken.
2.Stew in cold water: When simmering chicken broth, you should use a pot under cold water to gradually simmer the nutrients in the chicken and make the chicken broth richer.
3.Control the heat: When simmering chicken broth, you should first bring the water to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to low and simmer slowly. This allows the chicken to fully absorb the flavor in the broth while maintaining the texture and nutritional value of the chicken.
4.Cooking time: The time to simmer the chicken broth is also important. In general, the longer the chicken is simmered, the stronger the flavor of the chicken broth will be. But also be careful not to simmer it for too long so as not to cook the chicken to a bad time.
5.Seasoning: In the process of stewing chicken broth, you can add some seasonings such as salt and pepper appropriately to increase the flavor of the chicken broth. But be careful not to season too much, so as not to overshadow the umami flavor of the chicken soup itself.
3. Precautions
1.Use a casserole or clay pot to stew: Choosing a casserole or clay pot to stew chicken broth will better preserve the nutrients and original flavor of the chicken.
2.Don't add MSG: When stewing chicken broth, don't add MSG to enhance the freshness. Because the chicken soup itself has a strong umami flavor, adding MSG will destroy the original flavor of the chicken soup.
3.Pay attention to the combination of ingredients: When stewing chicken soup, you can match some ingredients with nutritional and nourishing effects, such as yam, longan, etc., which can improve the nutritional value of chicken soup.