The method of making beggar chicken is similar to "cannon dolphin", one of the "eight treasures" in Zhou Dynasty. "cannon dolphin" is a dish made by wrapping suckling pigs with clay, grilling them and further processing them.
Its color is bright bordeaux, fragrant, crispy and tender, crispy and tender at the entrance, and unique in flavor.
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a man named Huazi, who begged for food along the way and went to a village in Changshu County. One day, he happened to get a chicken and wanted to slaughter it for cooking, but there was neither cooker nor seasoning. He came to the foot of Yushan Mountain, killed the chicken, removed its internal organs, coated it with yellow mud and firewood, and simmered the coated chicken in the fire. When the mud-dried chicken was cooked, the mud shell was peeled off, and the chicken feathers were removed with the mud shell, revealing the cooked chicken.
Begging chicken practice
material
Ingredients: a tender hen (1000g), preferably a three-yellow (yellow-billed, yellow-footed and yellow-hairy) hen with a large head.
Accessories: 50g of diced chicken, 50g of lean pork100g, 50g of shrimps, 30g of diced cooked ham, 400g of lard, 20g of diced mushrooms, 4 fresh lotus leaves and 3,000g of jar mud.
Seasoning: 50g of Shaoxing wine, 5g of salt, 50g of oil100g, 20g of sugar, 20g of chopped green onion, 4g of Jiang Mo10g, 4g of cloves, 2g of star anise, 0g of jade fruit powder, 50g of chopped green onion, 50g of sweet noodle sauce, 50g of sesame oil and 50g of cooked lard.
Specific practices:
1.Remove the hair, viscera and wash the chicken. Adding soy sauce, yellow wine and salt, pickling 1 hr, taking out, grinding Flos Caryophylli and Fructus Anisi Stellati into fine powder, adding jade fruit powder, mixing, and rubbing on chicken;
2. Put the pot on a big fire, add lard to cook it for five times, add chopped green onion and ginger to saute until fragrant, and then put the diced chicken, lean pork, shrimp, diced cooked ham and diced mushrooms in the pot to fry until cooked. Cool after taking out the pot;
3. Hold a clove on each side of the chicken's armpit, then tightly wrap the chicken with pig's net oil, wrap it with lotus leaf, wrap it with cellophane, wrap it with lotus leaf outside, and tie it tightly with fine wool rope;
4. Grind the jar mud into powder, mix it with clear water, spread it flat on a wet cloth (about1.5cm thick), then put the tied chicken in the middle of the mud, pick up the four corners of the wet cloth and wrap the chicken tightly, so that the mud can be tightly adhered, and then remove the wet cloth and wrap it with wrapping paper;
5. Put the wrapped chicken in the oven and bake it with high fire for 40 minutes. If the mud cracks, you can plug the cracks with mud, then bake it with high fire for 30 minutes, then switch to low fire for 90 minutes, and finally switch to low fire for 90 minutes;
6. Take out the tested chicken, knock off the mud on the chicken surface, untie the rope, remove the lotus leaf, cellophane and pour sesame oil.
Process key
1.To make beggar chicken, you should choose Sanhuang hens with large head, fat and tender, namely yellow mouth, yellow feet and yellow hair. 1 only about weight1500g is preferred.
2. When the wings, leg bones and tibia are broken with the back of a knife, the chicken skin should not be damaged, and the chicken skin should be intact.
3. Wrapping the lotus leaf outside the net oil is to prevent the chicken from burning and increase the fragrance of the lotus leaf.
4. When wrapping the chicken with jar mud, spread the mud flat on the wet cloth, about 1.7 cm thick, then put the chicken in the middle of the mud, lift the four corners of the wet cloth tightly to make the mud stick tightly, then remove the wet cloth and wrap it with wrapping paper.
5. When roasting, some people use the oven, while others use charcoal fire to roast. Generally, the chicken is put on the rack and roasted close to charcoal fire, turning it every half hour 1 time, which takes about 4 hours to cook thoroughly.
Tips:
You can also prepare sesame oil, scallion and sweet noodle sauce for dipping. This chicken skin is golden and orange-bright, with tender and tender meat, rich flavor, original flavor, rich nutrition and unique flavor.
1.The method of making beggar chicken and the "cannon dolphin", one of the "eight treasures" in the Zhou Dynasty, is a dish made by wrapping suckling pigs with clay, grilling them and further processing them.
2. When eating this dish, open the mud shell, the house is full of fragrance, the entrance is crisp and tender, and the flavor is unique. If you eat with scallion and sweet noodle sauce, the taste will be better.