What are the wonderful uses of chicken oil

Chicken fat is extracted from the fat in the chicken's belly, and it can enhance the bright color during cooking. The extraction process of chicken oil is very simple. Put the chicken fat into boiling water to blanch it to remove moisture and odor. Then put it into a clean pot and refine it over low heat, but you must pay attention to the heat when refining. If the temperature is too high, the chicken oil will become gray and turbid, and its flavor will also be affected.

Chicken fat is very rich in nutrients and can be eaten by the general population. However, patients with biliary diseases, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis who often suffer from it should avoid eating it. Because the digestion of chicken fat requires the participation of bile, too much chicken fat will stimulate the contraction of the gallbladder and easily cause an attack of cholecystitis; people with excessive stomach acid should not eat too much chicken fat. Because chicken fat can stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, patients with gastric ulcers, excessive gastric acid or gastric bleeding generally should not eat too much chicken fat.

To refine chicken oil, blanch the chicken fat and put it in a bowl. Add ginger and seal it. Steam it in a steamer, take it out and let it dry slightly. Skim off the fat on the surface. The chicken oil refined in this way has a high water content and a strong flavor, but a slightly peculiar smell. In the past, many masters used this method to make chicken oil. The method of refining chicken fat in Cantonese cuisine is to add a large amount of salad oil and fragrant ingredients into the same pot. The biggest feature of this method is that it is full of fragrance and does not have the greasy taste of ordinary chicken oil. It works very well whether it is used as the cooking oil for high-end abalone and shark fin dishes, ordinary soups, and stews, or as the base oil for stir-frying and fresh sautéing, as well as for steaming and blanching dishes.

Although chicken fat is very rich in nutrients, people with renal insufficiency should not eat too much of it. Patients with acute renal insufficiency or uremia cannot easily metabolize the small molecule proteins in chicken fat. At the same time, here is a little trick to tell you that chicken oil can be used to treat symptoms such as hair loss and alopecia areata. However, chicken fat is very high in fat, so those who want to lose weight should eat less.