The most famous called chicken heritage is from Jiangsu, has a history of thousands of years. Calling chicken is also known as rich chicken, belonging to the Jiangnan very famous dish, calling chicken is actually the processed chicken into the lotus leaf wrapped up, and then roasted.

Legend has it that when Qianlong made a private visit to the countryside, he was accidentally stranded in the wilderness. The downtrodden Qianlong met a caller, who saw that Qianlong was very poor, so he put his favorite food? The chicken was a favorite delicacy of his. The man was so hungry that he ate his favorite food, the chicken. He was very hungry at the time and ate the chicken. When he ate the chicken, he felt very delicious, so Qianlong asked the flower girl the name of the food. The bawler didn't want to tell Qianlong that it was "chicken with flowers". Barking Chicken? So he made up a name for it, called "Fortune Chicken". The name of the chicken is "Fortune Chicken".

In fact, the practice of the chicken is very simple, and the materials needed are not complicated. The most crucial step in calling chicken is to process the soil chicken, you need to apply soy sauce and cooking wine to the soil chicken, and then put peppercorns and onions, garlic and ginger and such auxiliary materials into the stomach of the soil chicken, and then marinate it for thirty minutes. After the marinade, the chicken will be wrapped in lotus leaves, then wrapped in a layer of soil on the outside of the leaves, and finally put the whole chicken directly into the fire for roasting.

The roasting time of the chicken will take about three hours, and after three hours the soil on its surface will be cracked. This is the time to take out the turkey and remove its soil, open the lotus leaf and the turkey inside can be eaten directly. Roasted through the lotus leaf wrapped called chicken in addition to the delicious marinated, there is a light lotus leaf flavor, so eat will not be too greasy.