Recipe for the Beggar’s Chicken in Wangsi Hotel

How to make beggar's chicken

Materials

1000 grams of hen

Accessories:

Chicken (diced ) 50g

100g pork

50g shrimp (red)

30g ham (diced)

Fresh mushrooms (diced) ) 20 grams

4 lotus leaves

Seasoning:

100 grams of salad oil

5 grams of salt

10 grams of ginger (minced)

2 star anise

50 grams of cooking wine

Appropriate amount of sesame oil

50 grams of sweet noodle sauce

50 grams of lard

20 grams of white sugar

25 grams of shallots

4 cloves

50 grams of green onions

Practice

1. Remove the feathers from the chicken, remove the internal organs and wash it. Add soy sauce, rice wine, and salt, marinate for 1 hour, take out, grind cloves and star anise into fine powder, add jade fruit powder and mix well, rub it on the chicken body

2. Put the pot on high heat, add lard and heat until 50% hot. Add chopped green onion and ginger and sauté until fragrant. Then add the diced chicken, lean pork, shrimp, cooked ham and shiitake mushrooms to the pot and stir-fry. When cooked, take it out of the pot, let it cool and stuff it into the chicken belly

3. Put a clove in each armpit of the chicken, then wrap the chicken body tightly with pork net oil, wrap one layer with lotus leaves, then wrap another layer with cellophane, wrap another layer of lotus leaves on the outside, and then wrap it with fine twine Tie firmly

4. Grind the wine jar mud into powder, add water to mix, spread it flat on a wet cloth (about 1.5 cm thick), then place the tied chicken in the middle of the mud, pick up the four corners of the wet cloth and wrap the chicken tightly to make the mud tight Stick it firmly, then remove the wet cloth and wrap it with wrapping paper

5. Put the wrapped chicken into the oven and bake over high heat for 40 minutes. If the mud is dry and cracked, use mud to plug the cracks. Bake over high heat for another 30 minutes, then switch to low heat to bake for 90 minutes, and finally switch to low heat to bake. 90 minutes

6. Take out the roasted chicken, knock off the mud on the surface of the chicken, remove the rope, peel off the lotus leaves and cellophane, and pour sesame oil on it