Fritillaria Chicken

Fritillaria Chicken

　　Two types of fritillaria grow in the Jiuzhaigou area: Sichuan fritillaria and dark purple fritillaria. With a bitter-sweet flavor and cool taste, it can clear the lungs, disperse nodules, relieve coughs, and treat symptoms such as phlegm and hemoptysis, chest congestion, lung atrophy, and abscesses. (Jiuzhaigou)

　　Fritillaria is considered a “noble family” among medicinal plants. Two types grow in the Jiuzhaigou area: Sichuan fritillaria and dark purple fritillaria. It has a bitter-sweet flavor and cool taste, and can clear the lungs, disperse nodules, relieve coughs, and treat symptoms such as phlegm and hemoptysis, chest congestion, lung atrophy, and abscesses.

　　To prepare Fritillaria Chicken, kill the chicken, remove the feathers and internal organs, clean it, and blanch it in boiling water to remove the blood. Then rinse it with clean water. Wash the fritillaria, place 1.5 kg of water in an aluminum pot or earthenware pot, put the chicken in, add a small amount of yellow wine and the fritillaria, cover tightly, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for two hours to finish.