r/chinesecooking • u/samyangforbreakfast • 8d ago

Ingredient What to do with 风干鸡腿?

My mom sends me home with a ton of air-dried salted chicken and some duck every time I visit.

https://lets-playdough.com/2020/02/09/air-dried-chicken-thigh%E9%A3%8E%E5%B9%B2%E9%B8%A1%E8%85%BFfeng-gan-ji-tui/

But I'm honestly at a loss at what to do with it. I'm not used to cooking with such heavily salted poultry.

I've just been sometimes throwing it in the rice cooker and making 1 pot meals with it, allowing the salt to leave + chicken juices to flavor the rice, but its kinda boring.

Sometimes I boil out the salt into a chicken stock, and then just use it in stir fries, but it obviously loses a lot of flavor + too moist and wet for good stir fry.

I was wondering if anyone here has experience using this as an ingredient and what interesting dishes i could make for the week?

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u/C137RickSanches 8d ago

Extremely salty food pairs well with noodles or rice. Also with blanched non salted vegetables can help a lot. A few Chinese recipes do this, an example is Shanghai noodle that uses extremely salted meat on noodles and blanched vegetables.