Boiling a beautiful, strong chicken with fairy wings for Tet is not difficult if you know this.

On the Tet tray, a whole boiled chicken is an indispensable offering. In addition to the usual way of boiling chicken, many families often make chicken with wings. This way of preparing will make the chicken offering look more beautiful.

According to traditional beliefs, a whole boiled chicken symbolizes the sincerity and filial piety of descendants towards gods and ancestors. Not only that, it also represents the homeowner's wish for a year of favorable weather and bountiful harvests.

The rooster with fairy wings has a brave and strong appearance, symbolizing a new year of wealth and success. The ancients believed that this was the appearance of a rooster in attendance, showing respect to its superiors.

Boiling chicken for incense is not simple because if done incorrectly, the chicken can be undercooked or have cracked skin, which is not pleasing to the eye.

However, with this secret, boiling chicken wings perfectly to burn incense on holidays, full moon days, and the first day of the month or year is no longer difficult for housewives!

Ingredient:

- Young rooster: 1 bird from 1.2 - 1.5kg

- Bamboo or nylon string: 1 strand

- Salt, lemon

How to choose chicken for offering

In Vietnamese customs, on holidays, New Year's Eve, full moon or death anniversaries, a tray of food must be prepared and placed on the ancestral altar, especially a beautiful plate of boiled chicken is indispensable.

This is a custom that shows the respect of descendants for their ancestors, as well as bringing good luck to the homeowner.

Normally, on occasions such as death anniversaries, full moon days, the beginning of the month,... families can use roosters or hens, however on New Year's Eve, roosters are required.

According to folk beliefs, New Year's Eve is when the sun is at its deepest sleep, so Vietnamese people often worship a rooster rather than a hen in the hope that the rooster will crow loudly to wake up the sun so that the whole year will be filled with light, favorable weather, and the path to wealth, health, etc. will be bright and clear.

A good rooster is one with a bright red comb, evenly spaced, yellow legs, smooth feathers, full breast, and is healthy.

In addition, when you press lightly under the breast to see if the bone is soft; when you gently part the feathers to see if the skin is warm, soft, and thin, the chicken is delicious. Therefore, when buying chicken, you should prioritize choosing chickens like that.

Before boiling chicken

After cleaning the chicken feathers, wash the chicken with salt, lemon and kumquat to clean the chicken skin.

Then, wash it again with cooled boiled water to make the chicken skin bright and beautiful. Especially when washing, you need to wash away the blood to prevent the broth from being cloudy and the blood from sticking to the chicken skin.

The pot for boiling chicken must be large enough to fit the chicken and avoid the chicken from losing its shape. This is also the secret to boiling chicken wings beautifully and without cracking the skin.

Tying chicken to worship fairy wings

- Soak the bamboo strips in water to soften them so that it is easier to tie the chicken.

- Place the chicken straight up, use your hand to support the chicken's neck and clamp the 2 wings to secure it.

- Take the soaked string and tie it under the wings to secure the wings and neck of the chicken. Note, do not tie the string to the chicken's crest, otherwise the chicken offering will not look nice.

Notes when boiling chicken

Place the chicken with the wings tied in the pot and place on the stove over high heat. Bring to a simmer. To make the chicken soft and the water clear, boil for 15 minutes first then reduce the heat.

Add cold water to 2/3 of the pot. Note, if you want the chicken offering to be beautiful and not "cooked on the outside, raw on the inside", you should place the chicken face down.

Roast 1 ginger root, 1 onion, crush and put in the pot of chicken broth and continue boiling to make the chicken and broth fragrant.

When the fat floats to the top, use a spoon to skim it off to make the chicken broth clear.

Tips to make crispy, golden chicken skin

To make the chicken skin crispy, when you take it out, immediately put it in very cold water. When it cools down, take it out and drain. This way, the chicken meat will be firm and firm, and when you cut and arrange the chicken, it will be easy to cut and arrange without it falling apart.

If you want the chicken skin to be shiny and golden, crush a little fresh turmeric and squeeze out the juice, mix it with fried chicken fat and then brush a thin layer of this mixture evenly over the chicken skin.

When offering the chicken, put a rose in its mouth and it's done.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/cach-luoc-ga-canh-tien-dung-manh-dep-mat-sieu-chuan-ngay-tet-19223121115014768.htm