Crock Pot Chicken Soup

The crock pot chicken soup in Xiaotaoyuan, Wuhan is famous for its unique flavor. Crock pot chicken soup occupies a very important position in Hubei’s diet. In Hubei people’s custom, drinking chicken soup is a very important thing. Eat more than a dozen chickens, good eaters can eat dozens of chickens, poor people also have to eat three or five chickens, chickens are mainly simmering soup, according to the traditional concept of Hubei people, drinking soup is better than eating meat to raise people. So when I was in confinement, I drank all the soup, and all the meat was eaten by Dad Tuotuo. He is a carnivorous animal. I love to drink soup, which is the best of both worlds! Not only for confinement, guests at home, the host brings a pot of thick chicken soup, but also the highest courtesy to the guests. For a good crock pot chicken soup, you must use native chickens, preferably fat and tender hens from Huangpi and Xiaogan. Put the chicken nuggets into a frying pan and stir-fry, then pour it into a crock pot filled with boiling water. You can add a small amount of spices or nothing. Just use ginger and water, cook over a high heat, and simmer thoroughly. The salt must be put at the end. Putting the salt too early will cause the protein to coagulate, so that the umami flavor of the chicken is not easily dissolved in the soup. A pot of successful chicken soup must be fat, tender and crisp, and the soup is golden and fragrant. After a sip, it tastes like revealing the dusty hometown years. In my memory, the small red mud stove in the backyard of my grandmother is flourishing. The fan was gently swayed, and there was a warm sunshine in the setting sun. After several hours of simmering and boiling, the chicken soup in the earthen jar boiled quietly, and the rich fragrance was secreted into the heart and spleen. I was anxious to take a sip, and often burned my mouth accidentally. Grandma always said: "Slow down! Slow down!" Then she spooned a spoonful of golden soup, carefully blown it out, and sent it into my mouth. "