Beggar's Chicken
📍 Jiangsu
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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