1, coat the chicken with 5 tablespoons of cooking wine, 5 tablespoons of light soy sauce and 3 teaspoons of salt, and add onion knots, 6 slices of ginger and 5 cloves of garlic for pickling 1 hour.

2. Add 160g of water and 40g of liquor into 400g of flour three times, stir it into a flocculent state and knead it into dough. Adding white wine to the dough can make the chicken wrapped in it gradually absorb the aroma of wine at high temperature, making the beggar chicken taste better.

3. Knead the dough into a cake that can wrap the size of a chicken.

4. Marinated chicken is wrapped in soaked lotus leaves. Then wrap the flour cake outside the lotus leaf chicken.

6. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees on fire, put the whole chicken into the oven after reducing the fire to 180 degrees, bake for about 25 minutes, then adjust the oven to 180 degrees on fire, and then bake for 90 minutes after reducing the fire to 160 degrees. Knock on the shell after coming out of the oven.

Historical origin of beggar chicken

Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong visited Jiangnan incognito, he accidentally wandered into the wilderness. A man named Hanako felt sorry for him, so he gave him a beggar chicken, which he thought was delicious. Being sleepy and hungry, I naturally feel that this chicken is extremely delicious. After eating, I asked him his name, calling him Hua Tou. I was embarrassed to say that this chicken was called "beggar chicken", so I boasted that this chicken was called "rich chicken".

Ganlong was full of praise for the chicken. The beggar learned afterwards that the tramp was the present emperor. This "beggar chicken" became a "rich chicken" because of the emperor's golden mouth. Spread to this day, it has also become a famous dish on the elegant floor.