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Salt-Baked ChickenPoultry
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Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, dried with paper towels
3 Tablespoons Mao Tai
1 teaspoon coarse salt
cheesecloth to wrap and tie the chicken
3 scallions, each one knotted
3 slices fresh ginger
3 whole star anise
5 pounds coarse salt
3 sprigs fresh coriander, two knotted
Preparation:
1. Rub the inside and out of the chicken with the Mao Tai
and the teaspoon of salt, then wrap and tie the chicken
in the cheesecloth knotting it top and bottom of the
bird.
2. Put the five pounds of salt in the wok, cover iand in
half an hour, put the chicken into the middle of the salt,
breast side down. Completely cover it with the salt,
then recover the wok and bake it in the salt for ninety
minutes. Pierce the thigh, and when the juices run
clear, the chicken is cooked.
3. Brush off all salt, remove the cheesecloth and discard
it and the salt, then using a cleaver, cut the chicken into
eight to ten pieces and put them on a platter, and serve.
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