Rice Cooker Water Chestnut Stewed Chicken

Name: Rice Cooker Water Chestnut Stewed Chicken
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1/2 Fresh chicken; 20 Water chestnuts; Some salt; Some Wolfberry; Some ginger

by Tianshan Cocoa

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

2h

Serving

5

The taste of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger, and people are busy doing the New Year's goods everywhere. Some people say that the taste of the new year is getting weaker and weaker, because there are too few red lanterns hanging on the streets and alleys. If you go to a vegetable market or a variety of wholesale seafood and meat markets, you will know that the taste of the year has not only not faded, but it has become stronger. There are cars everywhere, people everywhere, and every import and export is people and cars. It's a joyous and lively scene! Went to our seafood wholesale market on the weekend and wanted to buy some seafood back, waiting to eat during the Chinese New Year. Unexpectedly, office workers who usually rest at home will go to buy new year goods on weekends. The import and export of the seafood wholesale market are vehicles waiting to get in. Traffic jams in areas that are not usually jammed, some people are calculating the time. There was a traffic jam in the New Year's Day shopping section on weekends. It has been jammed for 4 hours. Other road sections have also been affected by traffic jams. Does it still have a taste of the year? Lucky dishes are indispensable for banquets during the Spring Festival, which are stewed in a pot, not greasy and not on fire, too fresh and delicious.

During the New Year, there are a lot of big fish and meat, and all kinds of delicacies are basically greasy. It is also a rare holiday for the New Year. Relatives and friends get together, family get together, there is too much to eat and drink, Coco reminds the friends, to relax a little! Health is the capital of the New Year! Cocoa today recommends a light, non-greasy and simple chicken soup "Rice Cooker Water Chestnut Stewed Chicken". You may have eaten water chestnuts, but have you eaten water chestnut stewed chicken soup? Eating chicken on New Year's Day is a symbol of auspiciousness and good fortune.

The Chinese New Year is the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the temperature is very low. Every day we are here at minus ten degrees Celsius. It is cold when we go out. You need to drink some soup to get warmer. "Rice Cooker Water Chestnut Stewed Chicken" is not greasy because of the water , It won't be smashed after a long time of cooking, the taste remains crisp and sweet, and it is nutritious and delicious when used as stewed chicken. Water chestnuts have a refreshing taste and can reduce the greasy feeling of chicken soup. No matter how much you eat, you will not get angry. You must know that water chestnut is a raw vegetable with edible and medicinal value. It was once a tribute to the imperial court in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Friends, use it to stew chicken soup during the Chinese New Year. When eating meat during the New Year, if you are afraid of greasy meat, you can drink this chicken soup. It is light and delicious.

Ingredients

Rice Cooker Water Chestnut Stewed Chicken

1. Main ingredients: half a local chicken. Accessories: 20 water chestnuts, salt, wolfberry, ginger

Rice Cooker Water Chestnut Stewed Chicken recipe

2. Clean up the chicken, wash and cut into pieces, wash and slice the ginger, wash and soak the wolfberry with cold water

3. Bring the chicken pieces to a boil in a pot under cold water. It is best not to cook for too long. Just let it open slightly. When the blood foam comes out, pick it up. It is best to use a pot under cold water.

4. Add the blanched chicken nuggets into the rice cooker and add ginger slices (you can use an electric cooker or a clay pot to stew)

5. Add clear water. It is best to cover the ingredients by 2 cm. If you don’t like to drink soup, you can add less, because the rice cooker stews the soup, so there is not much water loss.

6. Power on with the lid, you can choose the soup function (generally the chicken is not well cooked, you can set the time yourself, it can be cooked in about 2 hours) The rice cooker starts to work, wait until it is boiled and there is heat and fragrance (can be opened in 50 minutes)

7. Wash the water chestnuts and peel them so that they are whole, don’t cut them

8. Put the peeled water chestnuts down in the rice cooker and continue to simmer, add the lid to the pot and slowly boil the soup

9. Wait for 20 minutes to cook the soup (you can see the time display on the rice cooker)

10. Add salt and cover again and wait until the time is up, the soup boiling function is over, cook until it jumps to the holding position, add wolfberry and stir evenly to continue boiling the soup

11. Put the lid on, unplug the power, simmer for two minutes and you can eat

Tips:
1. The local chicken is difficult to stew, you can set the time for 2 hours, and it can be stewed.
2. It can be stewed together with any hard vegetables, yam, potatoes, etc.
3. Water chestnuts are not well cooked, so you can add them earlier