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Salt-Baked Chicken
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Salt-Baked Chicken

A Hakka classic — whole chicken cured in Shaoxing and sand ginger, then buried in hot coarse salt until the flesh turns silk-gold.

Fragrant1 hr 45 minServes 4

The method

6 steps · 1 hr 45 min

  1. 01

    Rub chicken inside and out with wine, salt, sand ginger, five-spice; cure 4 hours.

  2. 02

    Wrap chicken tightly in parchment.

  3. 03

    Heat salt in a heavy pot until smoking hot.

  4. 04

    Bury the parcel in salt; bake covered at 400°F for 60 minutes.

  5. 05

    Rest 10 minutes; unwrap and chop through the bone.

  6. 06

    Serve with a small dish of ginger-scallion oil.

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