Songming Marinated Chicken

Songming Marinated Chicken

　　Preparation Method:

1. Ingredient selection: Choose healthy, disease-free, live chickens as the main ingredient, preferably year-old chicks.

2. Prepare the marinade: 50 kilograms of water, plus 250 grams each of Sichuan peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, and cardamom, 300 grams each of dried tangerine peel and licorice, 25 grams of cloves, 1.1 kilograms of white sugar, 2.2 kilograms of light soy sauce, and 1.05 kilograms of salt. Place the above seasonings in a cloth bag, put it in a pot of water, and boil for 1 hour to make the marinade.

3. Butchering: Slaughter the live chicken, drain the blood, scald it in hot water, pluck all the feathers, then open the cavity to remove the internal organs. Rinse clean, then tuck the chicken’s lower legs into the abdominal cavity.

4. Marinating: Bring the marinade to a slight boil, immerse the chicken in the marinade, and every 10 minutes, pour out the marinade inside the chicken cavity and immerse again until the chicken is cooked (when the leg meat is tender and no blood seeps out when pierced with a skewer).

Product features: Extremely tender meat, delicious and tasty.