Citrus Chicken
Introduce
Citrus chicken (Simplified Chinese: 柑橘鸡; Traditional Chinese: 柑橘雞; Pinyin: gān jú jī;) is cooked with chicken that are raised in citrus garden from neonatal to finished period. The chickens eat grass seed, find small worm to eat, anchor in branches of tree, release nature instincts and enjoy nature.
The chickens eat vegetables and cereals as main food, and commercial feed will be never fed to them. In addition, the chicken exercises in the garden every day which brings up the good quality of “Citrus chicken”. No matter how it is cooked, stews soup, stir-fry, and cold and dressed with sauce, it retains fragrance in your mouth, lingers aftertaste and will never feel bored with it.
Taste
Sweet and sour, Chicken tender and smooth.
Characteristics
The chicken is pickled with citrus juice, and added with lemon, rosemary, pepper and nutmeg. It has an unique flavor. It is more tasty due to the cooking process of stewed well slowly and softens meat.
In Chinese(Pronunciation)
Simplified Chinese: 柑橘鸡;
Traditional Chinese: 柑橘雞;
Pinyin: gān jú jī;
Nutrition
Citrus
Calories (kcal) 51.00(Per 100 grams)
Carbohydrate (g) > 11.90(Per 100 grams)
Fat (g)>0.20(Per 100 grams)
Protein (g) >0.70(Per 100 grams)
Cellulose (g) > 0.40(Per 100 grams)
Chicken
Calories (kcal) 167.00(Per 100 grams)
Carbohydrate (g) > 1.30(Per 100 grams)
Fat (g) > 9.40(Per 100 grams)
Protein (g) > 19.30(Per 100 grams)
Calories
Citrus chicken (Gan Ju Ji) is estimated to be 215 kcal per 100 grams of calories.
Origin
Zhong County in Chongqing is named as “Chinese citrus city”. Feeding chickens under citrus forest is a breeding model of a combination of cultivation and feeding, which is a full utilization of space and weed and the other resources in orchard and woodland, and saves land and diet sources, and realizes the superposition of fruit tree economy and breeding economy and maximizes the benefit.
Ingredients
1 kg of chicken meat
200 ml of Citrus juice
100 ml of lemon juice
One branch of rosemary
One citrus
One lemon
One baby onion
250 grams of vegetable soup
Black pepper (based on taste and eating habit)
Chili powder (based on taste and eating habit)
Nutmeg (based on taste and eating habit)
50 grams of sugar
Salt (based on taste and eating habit)[1]
Recipe
Step 1
Cut chicken into large size nuggets.
Step 2
Put chicken in a big container and add smashed rosemary and black pepper in.
Step 3
Add chili powder.
Step 4
Grounded nutmeg.
Step 5
Add salt
Step 6
Squeeze lemon and citrus.
Step 7
Obtain 200 ml citrus juice and 100 ml lemon juice by filtering mashed lemon and citrus
Step 8
Pour the juice in chicken nuggets
Step 9
Cut one lemon and one citrus into slices and add seasoning condiments
Step 10
Place lemon slices and citrus slices on chicken nuggets and covered with fresh keeping film, and pickled for 12 hours.
Step 11
Smash the baby onion
Step 12
Pour oil in a big pot and stir-fry with smashed baby onion
Step 13
Take out chicken
Step 14
Place in the big pot and pour in lemon and citrus juice pickled in the container with chicken in
Step 15
Pour vegetable soup in
Step 16
Cover with lid and simmer for 2 hours
Step 17
At the same time, add a little lemon and citrus juice in a non-stick cookware and dissolve the sugar.
Step 18
Put in lemon and citrus slices
Step 19
Pour lemon and citrus juice in
Step 20
Stir-fry to caramelize for 5-6 minutes
Step 21
If caramelization dries too quickly, add a little bit water
Step 22
Turn off the fire when caramelizing
Step 23
Serve using a basin after the chicken is well stewed.
Step 24
Finally adorn with lemon and citrus slices.