Beggar's Chicken
This beggar's chicken version uses a whole lotus-leaf-wrapped bird sealed in a baked dough crust, with mushrooms and chestnuts perfuming the tender meat inside. with a clear serving style and distinctive texture.
π Recipe adapted from Wikidata (Dish)
Marinate the chicken with soy sauce, wine, ginger, scallions, and five-spice.
Stuff with shiitakes and chestnuts, then wrap in softened lotus leaves.
Seal the parcel inside a thick flour dough crust.
Bake slowly until the chicken steams tender inside the crust.
Crack open the dough and serve the fragrant juices with the meat.
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