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Beggar Chicken

Ingredients
  

  • 1 chicken 1-1.5kg

Stuffing (anything non-leafy you want to get rid of, here's mine:)

  • 5 mushrooms soaked for 30 minutes and use the sliced caps only
  • A handful of lily buds golden needle mushrooms, soaked and hard tips cut off and discarded
  • 1/2 cup shredded Szechuan vegetable
  • 3 dates
  • 100 g lean pork julienne

Seasoning

  • 1 Tbsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 Tbsp black soya sauce
  • 1 Tbsp rice wine
  • 1 Tbsp sesame oil

Covering dough

  • 5 cups plain flour
  • 2 cups water

Instructions
 

  • Debone the chicken's thighs and wings. (Optional step that will make chicken more compact)
  • Season the chicken with 2/3 of the seasoning for 30 minutes.
  • Mix the stuffing and season with 1/3 of the seasoning.
  • Stuff the chicken.
  • Put the chicken into a cooking bag, then tie and secure. If you don't have a cooking bag, use a large or several pieces of parchment paper. Wrap many times to make sure you seal off the chicken.
  • Cover the cooking bag with a large piece of lotus leaf, tie securely. If you cannot find lotus leaves, just use foil.
  • Mix the flour and water together to form a smooth covering dough.
  • Roll out the covering dough and cover the whole chicken with this covering.
  • Bake the chicken at 230C for 1 hour. Then lower the temperature to 160C and bake another 45 minutes.
  • When done, remove from the oven, and cool off for at least 15 minutes.
  • Saw or knock with a hammer, and remove the top of the outer covering. Be careful not to affect the chicken if possible, and preferably do not remove all of the covering because it serves as a bowl for the essence from the chicken.
  • Serve with rice and a salad or any kind of vegetable dishes.