1. Prepare to boil chicken
To boil a delicious chicken with golden skin and beautiful shape, you must be very focused and meticulous during the preparation and boiling process. The secret to boiled chicken beautifully lies in 3 main stages: selecting chickens, pecking and shaping chickens, and boiling chickens.
How to choose an offering chicken?
In order to have a beautiful offering chicken, we must first choose a good chicken.
It is necessary to choose a rooster whose weight after slaughter is about 1.2-1.5 kg. Do not buy a chicken that is too big because it will be more difficult to look beautiful on the tray, the meat is also tougher.
Choose chickens with bright red crests, high papillae, smooth feathers, agile, full yellow breast skin, with dark yellow areas such as wings, breasts, backs; no bruises, pale, no black spots, nodules, small legs.
For ready-made broiler chickens, choose one that has natural pale yellow skin, is thin all over the body, firm meat, small floats, with little fat in the neck and thighs.
How to peck and shape an offering chicken
With the offering chicken, you can’t open the door like to make roasted, fried or boiled food normally, but you have to cut it open to create a beautiful shape and avoid skin shrinkage. Should cut off the leg part from the elbow to avoid shrinking the skin when boiling, causing cracking in the thigh.
To shape the chicken, it is necessary to take a sharp knife and cut the sides of the chicken’s neck, inserting the wings towards the mouth through these two lines. Care should be taken, skillfully so that the wings do not bend or break but still face out.