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Beggar's Chicken from China

Beggar's Chicken

📍 Jiangsu

4.4

Whole chicken baked sealed in clay and lotus leaf.

About Beggar's Chicken

A marinated whole chicken is wrapped in lotus leaves, encased in clay and slow-baked so it steams in its own juices until meltingly tender. Legend says a beggar invented it to cook a stolen bird.

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