Beggar chicken, a famous food in Jiangnan, has a long history. It is a special dish made by wrapping the processed chicken with soil and lotus leaves and baking it. Anyone who has read Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes must know this dish. Wrap the chicken in mud, set fire to the mud, and the chicken will be cooked when the mud is heated. Also known as rich chicken, it was originally created by beggars, so it is called flower chicken.

Ingredients: Broiler, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, shrimps and pork belly.

Appropriate accessories: pig net oil, lotus root, yellow mud, fresh lotus leaf and baking paper.

Suitable ingredients: onion, oyster sauce, salt, soy sauce, ginger, clove, star anise and pepper.

1 Slice bamboo shoots, soak mushrooms and cut into pieces, wash shrimps, remove shells and shred; Pork belly peeled and diced for later use.

Wash the chicken and cut off the nails and tail.

3 Use soy sauce, cooking wine, salt, oyster sauce, onion and ginger slices, mix well and smear the chicken inside and outside.

4 Shrimp, pork belly diced, bamboo shoots, star anise, cloves and mushrooms, add soy sauce and sugar and mix well to make stuffing.

5 Fill the chicken belly with stuffing.

6 put the chicken in a fresh-keeping bag and marinate it in the refrigerator for one night.

7 Fresh lotus leaves and Ma Lian grass are slightly scalded in a boiling water pot. Remove and drain for later use.

8 Loess mud is kneaded into dough with proper amount of water.

9 Wrap the chicken in pig net oil.

10 Wrap the lotus leaf with Ma Lian grass and then wrap it with a layer of baking paper.

1 1 Wrap the mixed yellow mud on the chicken, put the oiled paper on the baking tray and put it in the oven, 180 degrees 1.5-2 hours.

12 take it out when it is cooked, remove the mud, remove the lotus leaves and pour the sesame oil.

Legend Zhu Yuanzhang

When he led the troops to fight Jiangshan, Zhu Yuanzhang was defeated again and ran for three days and three nights. The enemy is chasing him. Zhu Yuanzhang was tired and hungry. At this time, he saw a fire on the ground in front of him and a pile of mud in the middle. There is an old man named Hua squatting next to him. Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously, "What are you doing here?" "When the old man named Hua saw that it was Zhu Yuanzhang, he quickly said," I'm roasting chicken for the king. "Zhu Yuanzhang was very surprised. He always asks Hua (Hua) to take the chicken out of the fire and open the mud. The smell is fragrant. Zhu Yuanzhang was full of praise while eating. "It's delicious. "Since then, zhu yuanzhang bon voyage, when the emperor. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang named the chicken "Fu Gui Chicken".