Stewed chicken with gastrodia elata is a kind of family health food in Zhaotong, Yunnan. Stewed chicken with gastrodia elata is delicious and nutritious. Gastrodia elata and stewed chicken are excellent products in taste and efficacy, and can be used as daily health soup and health diet.
And generally used to stew gastrodia elata chicken, will choose the old hen, this is because the hen is milder than the rooster, and the old hen meat is thicker, not so easy to stew, but also sweeter, with higher protein content. Two kilograms of stewed chicken is suitable for a family, and 20-25 grams of gastrodia elata is put at a time, so it is not advisable to overdo it.
Gastrodia stew chicken needs attention:
Generally, the gastrodia elata is dry and can't be cut with a knife. So it takes 1-2 days to soak gastrodia elata. The soaking method is very convenient, just soak in water. You can change the water if you have time, and it's okay if you don't change it. The weight of gastrodia elata is about 30 grams, just right.
Why don't you buy a chicken, wash it and cut it, and raise an old hen yourself? As for how many chickens are served with how many gastrodia elata, this is not much. The dosage of one person is 10 to15g, which is not so particular. Rinse the soaked Gastrodia elata with clear water, wipe off the mud on the surface and slice it. Both transverse cutting and longitudinal cutting are acceptable.