Hello everyone
Recently my uncle's hen had a fight with his dog
The dog hurt it badly
This morning the dog chased it and bit it hard
It's injured. It'll be too thin no matter how we feed it. Let's just eat it.
So if a dog fights a chicken, the chicken always loses
We can't butcher the dog anyway
What do we cook?
What about this... Cook 'La zi ji' with these dry chili peppers
OK
Let's cook it into 'La zi ji' (Chicken with chili)
Generally in this dish, the chicken should be chopped into small dices
This was bitten by the dog
The neck
Let's give it to the dog then
Come on, doggy!
The rooster is competing with it
The rooster goes away once it gets some food
In this dish, we need to add 70% to 80% salt in advance to marinate the chicken
To let the flavor penetrate inside before cooking
It'll make no sense to add salt after the chicken is fully cooked
Salt won't get inside then
Ok. The chicken is ready and let's marinate it for 10 minutes
Now prepare the other ingredients
It's very simple. Just a piece of old ginger, some garlic
Then scissor some dry chili peppers. The "Denglongjiao" (aka lantern chilis)
We are still using the "Denglongjiao" last time. My uncle can't eat too spicy food
Here we mince the ginger and garlic
Small pieces are better for flavor penetration
One bowl (like this) of dry chili peppers would be enough
The chicken also fills a bowl. The same amount for chili peppers
The ratio of chicken to chili is 1:1 in terms of volume
Is 1:1 too much?
Nope
If we have this dish in a restaurant, we need to look for chicken in chili pepper
They use much more chili pepper. It's almost like covering the chicken with chili.
Ok. That's all for the chili.
A full bowl of chili pepper. I'll need to remove the seeds later
We should remove some seeds. Otherwise, we'll eat too many seeds, which isn't good
Let's sieve it. There're too many seeds
The dish will be spoiled with too many seeds
We don't need these seeds. Let's throw them away
Now sieve the chili peppers up here
Look. We've still got a lot
However, we shouldn't throw away all seeds
We'll lose the aroma without seeds. Just not too many
Sieve it twice like this
Ok. Throw away the seeds here as well and it's done
Finally let's add some Sichuan peppercorns
Sichuan peppercorns are also one of the souls of this dish
We have... 3 to 4 Jin (~1.5 - 2 kg) of chicken, huh?
Two handfuls of Sichuan peppercorns
Ok. That's enough
Add a moderate amount of rapeseed oil into the wok
Add the Sichuan peppercorns and the chicken
Uncle, now let's stir-fry it slowly
If the moisture is not dried out, the meat won't taste good
Add the dry chili pepper into the wok
Now we stir-fry the chicken with the chili pepper
Uncle, would you have a try?
Just have a try
I don't think I can do it
You don't need to toss the food. Just stir it like this
You'll do it better
I can't
Can't toss the food, right?
Add the minced ginger and garlic into the wok
Is it too spicy?
Add hot pot soup base (cut into pieces in advance) into the wok
Sprinkle some sesame
Turn off the heat
Finally, add some chicken bouillon powder
Okay
Stir the food uniformly and it's ready to serve!
Ok. It's ready!
That's a large bowl of chicken
Might be several 'Jin' in weight
Please take a bite, uncle and aunt
Sure. Let me try it
The meat is neither too chewy nor too dry
Tastes good and easy to chew
Look
Uncle, the small pieces like this are meat. Larger pieces are bones
You've seperated the meat from the bones during cooking
Does it taste good?
Sure. Delicious indeed
Best with beer. That'll be nice
Nice with beer
Today we didn't use 'kuan you' ('broad oil') to deep-fry the chicken in this dish
Because my uncle...
If the chicken is deep-fried, the meat will shrink hard. He won't be able to chew it
In this way, it tastes delicious and spicy. The meat is tender with flavors fully penetrated
Yummy!
Yummy. Tastes like frog
Okay. If you have free-range chickens, just have a try
Otherwise, you can buy it in the markets
Broiler chicken is also fine
Hmm. Few people in the countryside would do this
It's so expensive
Yep
Ok. That's the end of this video
Let me get you a can of beer, uncle