The lotus flower can be used to make "lotus leaf chicken", the practice is as follows:

Main ingredients: 1 lotus leaf, 1 chicken, 3 scallions, 4 mushrooms, 10 slices of ginger, 200 grams of coarse salt, 2 seasonings, 10 peppercorns, 50 grams of flower carving wine, Soy sauce 10 grams.

1, coarse salt add pepper and seasoning stir-fried until the salt is slightly yellow can be sheng out to cool standby. I use sea salt, particles than the daily frying salt is a little thicker, if there is no sea salt with daily frying salt can also be, but the sea salt will taste better.

2, prepare a bowl of Huadiao wine.

3, clean the mushrooms and remove the tips, sliced ginger, scallions tied into knots.

4, a three yellow chicken, cleaned and slightly drained.

5, and then in the chicken body and the abdominal cavity are smeared with fried salt, fried salt do not have to be all smeared in the chicken, smeared salt after more patting with the hands of the chicken meat more massage for a while so that the salt better fly penetrate into the chicken meat.

6, into the Huadiao wine continue to beat massage to taste.

7, in the chicken legs inside a cut, so that the legs can be folded into the stomach.

8: Stuff the chicken with ginger, mushrooms and scallions.

9: Place the chicken in a plastic bag with all the seasonings and marinate overnight in the refrigerator.

10: Wrap the chicken in lotus leaves and tie with cotton thread to secure.

11: Wrap the chicken in two layers of tinfoil and bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 90 minutes. If you prefer softer meat, you can bake for 120 minutes. The power size of each oven varies, time and temperature is for reference only. Roasted chicken dipped inside the baked juice will taste better, you can also use soy sauce, chili oil and vinegar to mix a bowl of dipping sauce, dip and eat.