Monkey heads have many aliases, such as fungus, wool fungus, mandarin duck mushroom, yin and yang mushroom, monkey mushroom, etc. The scientific name of monkey head is Hericium erinaceus. Its biological classification belongs to the Basidiomycetes family. It has the functions of warming essence and nourishing kidney, nourishing five internal organs and assisting digestion.
The indications for this dish are irregular menstrual blood, loss of appetite, diarrhea, etc.
Monkey head chicken nuggets
Recipe Recommendations
- chicken legs 500 grams
- Hericium erinaceus 200 grams
- onion 1 piece
- Jiang 5 pieces
- oil 50 grams
- cooking wine appropriate amount
- salt appropriate amount
- salty and fresh
- stewed
- three-quarters of an hour
- ordinary
Steps for Monkey head chicken nuggets

1
The ingredients for this dish.
2
Chop the chicken legs into large pieces and blanch them with boiling water to remove the blood.
3
The monkey head soak its hair in clear water.
4
Wash the soaked monkey head and tear it into small pieces.
5
Cut the onions into sections, and cut the ginger into slices for later use.
6
Add appropriate amount of oil to the pan and heat it up, then stir-fry the star anise until fragrant.
7
Put the spring onions and ginger slices into the pan and stir fry until fragrant.
8
Add the blanched chicken nuggets and stir fry for a while.
9
Add the right amount of cooking wine.
10
Stir the chicken after adding the cooking wine and stir for a while.
11
Add appropriate amount of stock or boiling water.
12
Stock (or water) is added based on the amount of chicken nuggets.
13
Bring to a boil over high heat and turn to low heat to simmer.
14
After simmer for a while, add appropriate amount of refined salt.
15
After simmering for more than 20 minutes, add the monkey mushroom and continue to simmer.
16
Serve until the chicken is soft and tender.