Calling for chicken is a legendary dish, and when you think of it, you think of Hong Qigong and the Beggar's Association, who, in the middle of nowhere, by the campfire, used the most basic conditions to make crispy skin and tender meat roasted chicken, which is perhaps the ultimate jianghu cuisine. Nowadays, we live in the windows of a few clean high-rise, naturally can not experience the fun of that campfire roasted mud, but this does not prevent us from home creative homemade chicken.

The chicken is cooked in a crust with lotus leaves, the chicken is cooked in a cake with lotus flavor, and the chicken tastes fresh and clean, and it's a great way to make it at home.

First of all, let's take a look at the ingredients for the chicken with lotus leaves, which include the main ingredient of 1 fresh rooster of about 700 grams, the auxiliary ingredients are about 700 grams of dough, and 1 piece of dried lotus leaves, which has a much stronger flavor than the fresh lotus leaves. Seasonings include 50 grams of dried mushrooms, 50 grams of dried bamboo shoots, 50 milliliters of wine, 50 milliliters of oyster sauce, 50 milliliters of soy sauce, 10 grams of salt, 5 grams of pepper, 10 grams of edamame, 15 grams of ginger, and 3 green onions.

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Next, let's make this dish together. First of all, we put the mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots hair spare, green onions and ginger clean, ginger slices, green onions cut into sections, and shaoxing wine, oyster sauce, soy sauce, salt, pepper, edamame, mixed together, into marinated chicken sauce. Spread the sauce evenly over the chicken and marinate for 4 hours to taste. Because the chicken is not cut and most of the seasoning will run out with the gravy when it is grilled, the seasoning here is heavier and the marinade is longer. Wash the dried lotus leaves and soak them in hot water, take out the marinated chicken, fold the chicken feet and neck into the chicken belly, stuff the mushroom into the chicken belly, organize the whole chicken body into a compact mass, and wrap the chicken body with the soaked dried lotus leaves.

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will be good dough rolled into a large piece of lotus leaves chicken complete package, paste tight, ensure that there are no open seams, cracks, so as not to avoid leakage of air baking process. The thickness of the crust should be appropriate, too thin, it is easy to break; too thick, it is time-consuming and difficult to bake through. Start the oven on both upper and lower heat 200 ℃, preheat for 10 minutes, brush a layer of oil on the baking sheet, brush a layer of oil on the dough wrapped in ruffled chicken, put it into the oven and bake for 120 minutes. Because each oven is different, so the baking time should be specific, here is the reference time. In principle, the baking time is rather long than short, because the dough is well sealed, the chicken meat is tender, even if more baking a while chicken will not get old. On the contrary, if you do not bake it before dismantling and checking it, and then go back to the oven to bake it, the chicken will get old without the protection of the dough. Watch the surface of the dough during the baking process, if the crust is burnt, you can give it a layer of tinfoil to shield it.

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The innovation of this dish is to use the dough instead of the traditional practice of the yellow mud to adapt to the modern home environment. When it comes out, the chicken is refreshingly tender and full of lotus leaf flavor, and the crust that wraps the chicken is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, making it the equivalent of a distinctive noodle cake, which is an added bonus.