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Beggar's Chicken

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Trans-fat Free, Low Carb

Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
3 ½ pounds chicken
frying
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3 each lotus leaves
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Wet modeling clay
Stuffing
½ pound ground pork
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2 tablespoons mustard greens
salted, minced
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1 tablespoon peanut oil
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1 teaspoon sugar
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1 teaspoon ginger root
fresh, minced
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Mixture for skin
½ teaspoon salt
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1 tablespoon sherry
medium
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1 teaspoon sesame oil
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1 tablespoon soy sauce, dark
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Ingredients

Amount Measure Ingredient Features
1.6 kg chicken
frying
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3 each lotus leaves
*
Wet modeling clay
Stuffing
226.8 g ground pork
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3E+1 ml mustard greens
salted, minced
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15 ml peanut oil
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5 ml sugar
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5 ml ginger root
fresh, minced
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Mixture for skin
2.5 ml salt
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15 ml sherry
medium
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5 ml sesame oil
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15 ml soy sauce, dark
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Directions

Prepare Chicken: Trim excess fat from chicken; remove wing tips.

Mix mixture for skin; rub chicken inside and out with it.

Leave uncovered at room temperature, while coating is absorbed and dried.

Repeat if necessary.

Stuffing: In hot wok, heat peanut oil to smoking.

Stir-fry ground pork 2 minutes; add mustard green, ginger and sugar; stir-fry 1 more minute.

Remove and cool.

Lotus Leaves: Number of leaves depends on their size and that of chicken.

Reduce heat under boiling water to simmer, and steep leaves for 3 to 5 minutes, until wet through and pliable (no longer or leaves may shred).

Now soak in cold water for 10 minutes, or longer, until time to use them; open folded leaves in cold water to wash them.

Wrap Chicken: Preheat oven to 550 degrees.

Stuff chicken with pork mixture.

Cut hard center out of lotus leaves, then slit along fold about 3" on each side of center, so cut away center can be overlapped.

Wrap chicken in 3 layers of lotus leaves.

Tie securely with piece of cotton or fiber string (don't use nylon; it might melt).

Spread soft, wet modeling clay about ½ inch thick on sheet of newspaper.

Bring clay pack around chicken and seal.

Remove newspaper. (Use foil if clay unavailable.)

Roasting: Place clay-covered chicken on rack in shallow roasting pan in preheated oven.

Bake for 1 hour; reduce heat to 350℉ (180℃) and bake for another 1½ hours.

Serve: Present fired clay chicken to table.

Crack clay with suitable object, allowing some of steam to escape before you proceed.

Remove clay; carefully cut open lotus leaves with scissors.

Chicken will be very soft and tender; break apart to get at stuffing.

Serve guests, or invite them to pick with chopsticks.



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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 468g (16.5 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 96842% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 45g 70%
Saturated Fat 13g 66%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 407mg 136%
Sodium 951mg 40%
Total Carbohydrate 1g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars g
Protein 260g
Vitamin A 4% Vitamin C 1%
Calcium 7% Iron 32%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
 

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