It is normal for the color of chicken livers to vary. The shape of chicken livers is large and small, and the color is purple-red depending on the size of the chicken. Fresh cooked chicken livers also have light red, khaki, orange-yellow, and gray colors, which are all normal. Bright red is pigmented to attract customers. The more authentic the color, the more reassuring it is. The meat is tender and sweet, and it is one of the chicken offal. It has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, improving eyesight, eliminating chancre, nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation. It is sweet and bitter in nature, slightly warm, salty, non-toxic, returns to the liver and enters the kidney meridian; it can nourish the liver and kidney, relieve miscarriage, stop bleeding and nourish blood; it is mainly used for liver deficiency and dark eyes, infantile malnutrition, fetal leakage in women, and night blindness. It is suitable for cooking methods such as stewing, frying, frying, stewing, and boiling soup.
The effect of chicken intestines
Treatment of enuresis, nocturnal emission, white turbidity, hemorrhoid leakage. It is used for the symptoms of cold constitution, frequent urination, treatment of nocturnal emission, and vaginal discharge in women.
The medicinal value of chicken intestines
Chicken intestine medical records
1. "Benjing"《本經》: "The Lord drowned."
2. "Bie Lu"《別錄》: "can heal frequent urination"
3. "Outline"《綱目》: "stop spermatorrhea, white turbidity, and quench thirst."
1. Treat frequent urination and cold: a piece of chicken intestines, treat as usual, and hype meals. Warm wine and drink it. (《食醫心鏡》"The Mirror of Food and Medicine")
2. Treatment of enuresis: One piece of rooster intestines, roasted in yellow, pounded into fine powder. Each time before eating, adjust a coin with warm water. (《聖惠方》"Saint Beneficial")
3. Chicken Intestine Powder (雞腸散): Treatment of hemorrhoids and leakage: one hang of chicken intestines (with feces), half a catty of cotton seeds, and half a catty of earthworms. After the medicine is put into the chicken intestines, it is roasted with yin and yang tiles to a golden color, and it is ground into a fine powder. Three money per serving, three times a day, with white water. (《奇效良方》 "Fantastic Recipe" Chicken Intestine Powder 雞腸散)
How to choose:
chicken livers the darker color is a little longer and has been "blown by the wind and the sun"; the color is whitish, not so red, dull, and has a high possibility of deterioration.
Store at low temperature. Refrigerate at 2-4 degrees Celsius for 2-4 days; freeze at -18 degrees Celsius or below for 4-6 months. In order to avoid mutual contamination with chicken, the two should be handled separately when packaging and refrigerating, as the internal organs are prone to produce blood during storage.
The general public can eat. Chicken liver is suitable for women with fetal leakage, liver deficiency, dark eyesight, infantile malnutrition, enuresis and impotence.
Chicken soup made from chicken liver, chicken intestines and chicken kidney has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.
The leaf surface of chicken liver has bitter gallbladder and tendons, which must be removed during processing to avoid affecting the taste.
3. It is not advisable to eat too much chicken liver, so as not to consume too much cholesterol.
4. The content of vitamin A in chicken liver far exceeds that of milk, eggs, meat, fish and other foods. In addition to choosing quality-assured hormone-free chickens, proper cooking and consumption can also reduce the absorption of toxins. Chicken viscera is the easiest to eat bad guys, because chicken liver and kidneys and other viscera are responsible for decomposing toxins and depositing a large amount of toxins.
Common dishes brine chicken liver, fried chicken liver, fried chicken liver with pepper.
