Free Recipe Salt Roasted Chicken #2
Recipe Type: P Recipes
Recipe Preparation: cook
Cooking Ingredients for Salt Roasted Chicken #2 Recipe
1 Spring chicken
3 -(up to)
5 lb Salt
1 Scallion
2 sl Fresh ginger root
1 ts Chinese parsley
1 c Water
1 tb Sherry
1 ds Pepper
1/2 ts Salt
Salt Roasted Chicken #2 Preparation
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 of recipe Salt Roasted Chicken #1 . 2. Mince scallion, ginger root and Chinese parsley; then combine with water, sherry, pepper and remaining salt. 3. Tie chicken”s neck tightly with string to make it leakproof. Then invert bird in a bowl and pour liquid mixture into its cavity. Sew up securely or skewer. 4. Follow steps 3 and 4 of Salt Roasted Chicken #1 , but cook chicken only 30 to 40 minutes in hot salt. 5. Cut through strings to unskewer cavity and let liquid drain into a saucepan. Let cool slightly. Then with a cleaver, chop chicken, bones and all, in 2- inch sections; or carve Western-style. Serve hot or cold. Reheat liquid and serve as a sauce with chicken. NOTE: The packaged chicken sold in supermarkets cannot be used for this dish: the head and neck must be intact. VARIATION: For the salt, use coarse crystal salt. From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4.
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Recipe Serves: 4
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