Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Traditional Hakka salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡 is prepared by encasing the bird in the salt crust, the culinary tradition that stood the test of time until today since the Qing dynasty. This surprisingly simple dish relies on the culinary magic inside the cocoon build with a bed of sea salt. Salt Baked Chicken is a simple, hearty and very fun meal that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡 is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡 is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡 using 4 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡:
- Make ready 1 slow growing breed chicken
- Take 1 Tsp sea salt
- Get 1 tsp Sichuan pepper, optional
- Make ready 1 anise star
In stores you can find a pre-prepared salt baked powder seasoning packet that many people like to use. One of the finer food memories of going to Ipoh, Malaysia to visit my nan as a child was the chance to indulge in this famous Ipoh salted chicken. My uncle would be asked to drive for miles to a certain popular restaurant with strict instructions to bring this parcel of goodness home. I did this Salt Baked Chicken again on Thursday for dinner.
Steps to make Salt baked chicken 盐焗鸡:
- Disect a chicken ~4lb into 8 pieces. Set aside chicken bones for stock later.
- Massage 1 Tsp into the chicken and set aside for 20 minutes.
- Bake at 375F for 30 minutes and drain the liquid into a separate bowl. Turn each piece and bake for a second 30 minutes.
- Drain the liquid and continue to bake for another 20-30 minutes until chicken is semi-dry. It's great to use the chicken in any other dish such as soup or stirfry once it chill down. If enjoy it immediately, please serve with rice or breads because it is saltier than a regular dish.
It is my second time doing this dish and the whole family loves it. You'll need to prepare the materials separately in order to wrap the chicken and collect the steaming liquid/broth. Traditional Chinese salt baked chicken uses only chicken and coarse sea salt. The chicken is wrapped with a special type of oil paper and buried in Salt baked chicken has lots of transformers in China now. Apparently since a long, long time ago (as far back as the Middle Ages), Scots liked their chicken deep-fried instead of boiled or baked.
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