What is Beggar's Chicken? How to make it delicious?

Everyone may have eaten beggar's chicken. It is delicious and tender, but do you know where beggar's chicken is a specialty? Do you know how to make beggar's chicken delicious? If you don't know, come and take a look at the editor's detailed introduction to beggar's chicken.

What is Beggar's Chicken? How to make it delicious?

1. What is the local dish of Beggar's Chicken?

Beggar's Chicken is a famous dish in Jiangnan and Jiangxi. It has a long history and first appeared in the Qing Dynasty. The well-made Beggar's Chicken is bright red in color and attractive in aroma. The bones are crispy and the meat is tender. It is an ideal choice for family banquets or gifts to relatives and friends.

2. Materials for making beggar’s chicken

Beggar's chicken can be made at home. You need to prepare a three-yellow chicken, some mushrooms, onions, lotus leaves and flour in appropriate amounts, as well as some cooking wine, light soy sauce, salt and pepper, as well as white wine, onion, ginger, oyster sauce and other seasonings.

3. Steps for making Beggar’s Chicken

Break the bones of the prepared three-yellow chicken, add the prepared onion, ginger, garlic and seasonings to marinate. Rub the chicken with your hands to make it tasty. Fry and crush the peppercorns and put them together with the chicken, wrap them with plastic wrap, and put them in the refrigerator to marinate for two hours. At this time, soak the dried lotus leaves in clean water, take out the chicken, fold them into shape, and wrap them with lotus leaves. Flatten the dough, wrap the wrapped three-yellow chicken, put it in the oven without baking, adjust the middle layer of the oven to 160 degrees and bake for 80 minutes. After baking, remove the dough and lotus leaves, and then you can eat it.