Beggar's Chicken

According to legend, long ago, there was a beggar, beggar living along the way to a village in Changshu county. Day, he happened to come a chicken, want to kill cooking, can be neither cooking utensils, not any seasoning. He came to the foot of Yushan, after killing the chicken to remove internal organs, with hair painted Wong, firewood, set fire to the chicken coated in a good roast simmer until the mud dried and cooked chicken, stripped mud shell, feathers are also with the mud shell off, exposing the chicken. About 100 years ago, Changshu Yushan resort town northwest of "Hill View Gardens," a restaurant According to this legend, Qucuqujing, Seiko create this chicken to follow.

Ingredients:

Main: tender chicken 1 (1000 grams), mushroom, galanga, lotus leaf
Material: salt, monosodium glutamate, white sugar, ginger, star anise, fennel, good bay leaf, thyme, meat, Chloe, etc

1. Use knife back first chicken leg bones break, so that the folded shape;

2 in the chicken in the refined salt, monosodium glutamate, white sugar, ginger, star anise, fennel, good bay leaf, thyme, meat, Chloe, etc

3. Combine seasoning massage knead into chicken;

4. Chinese prickly ash stir-fried out fragrance;

5. Will be stir-fried out fragrance prickly ash with a rolling pin crushed;

6. Add chicken marinated with, again, cover with plastic wrap and good, placed in the refrigerator, for more than an hour, take out the middle flip.

7. Soak dried lotus leaf with cold water for a while;

8. Use cold water and white wine and together;

9. The yellow earth and into soft hard moderate mud ball;

10. Then on the chicken. Wipe layer of spices and pepper.

11. The Onions, mushrooms, cut into standby, silk into a pickled chicken sauce in the remaining mixture;

12. Will mix good mushrooms and onion silk, silk ginger, garlic and other spices into chicken belly;

13. In the bubble water of lotus leaf, wrap it up.

14. Roll the dough into a wafer roll into appropriate to the size of the wafer, the lotus leaf wrapped the chicken in the middle;

15. Then wrapped him in yellow, put in the oven baking sheet;

16. Preheat 160 degrees, lower-middle-class, 80 minutes, knocking on yellow, lotus leaf is uncovered;

17. The middle break on a knife, stomach content is great;

18. Delicious call flower chicken is in the eyes.

Tip:

1. Use knife back first chicken leg bones break, convenient package shape;

2. The marinated chicken time longer, middle frequently flip, massage to help it flavor;

3. Prepare baked before above with a layer of spices and pepper seasoning;

4. Lotus leaf is summer, is dry, with clear blisters on first 30 minutes;

5. With yellow aroma also all stewing in it;

6. Add the right amount of liquor, to bake a chicken sends out a unique fragrance;

7. After the salted seasoning mix together with mushrooms and Onions, not only taste, chicken and make it more sweet.

Reference:
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/beggars-chicken

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