Texas was the braised chicken, chicken and Fuliji Changshu Beggar Chicken and known as the "three famous chicken." Changshu Beggar Chicken cooking skill of the most stress, is also very special, the three yellow bottle it in clean fill into the ham, chicken gizzards, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus, etc., limited selection clove spices, meat buttons, plug the beheaded feed the eye, with the pig net oil, onions knot wrap the chicken body, and then package the leaves turn, high-temperature cellophane, tied Xi Cao, and then mixing with the rice wine for Wong Nai cocoon-like paste, simmer slowly cooked with slow fire. Remove the package, the chicken soft white, intense aroma, full house of joy, all covet. Jiangsu Changshu Changshu Beggar's Chicken is the local traditional cuisine, has five hundred years of history, popular, is loaded "Chinese menu."

Changshu Beggar Chicken the most authentic, best known to belong to the king four of Beggar Chicken Restaurant, Restaurant is located in Yushan Wang four feet.

Address: Yushan Road, Changshu Xingfu Street, # 358
Reservation Tel :0512 -52,849,999

Story of a

According to legend, long ago, a beggar, begging along the way to the Changshu County, living in a village. Day, he happened to get to a chicken, want to slaughter, cooking, cooking utensils can be neither, not any seasoning. He came to the foot of Yushan, after killing the chicken to remove internal organs, with hair painted Wong, firewood, set fire to chicken coated in a good roast simmer until the chicken cooked dried mud, mud stripped shell, also with feathers mud off the shell, exposing the chicken. About 100 years ago, Changshu county to the northwest of Yushan Sheng "Mountain Garden" restaurant According to this legend, Qucuqujing Seiko created to follow this chicken. Founded by a beggar, named Beggar Chicken.

Story two

Qing wen years, Changshu north door has a king four restaurants, the owner named Wang Longqing, is a well-known chef, cooking the food delicious, so business is booming. Wang dispensers charity, where the beggars come be treated with courtesy, three huts behind the house became a beggar shelter. Winter season, Wang chilled dispensers afraid of them, take care to send some firewood. Waiter found that, since delivery of firewood, the chicken is often lost in captivity, is a beggar who stole a chicken roasted on the fire to eat, it is recommended beggars away, or are no longer sent to firewood. Wang shopkeeper said: "No salt, how to eat chicken?" And take care to send beggars salt. Spring comes, be beggars whole chickens eat a hundred, Wang dispensers turn a blind eye and a deaf ear, the truly open the door to robbers.

Beggars go, one of the dispensers for the first of the farewell to the king, is offering a scorched the mud pie, a table is the table mind. Waiter furious, cursed beggars, rude, dare tease treasurer, good deed goes unpunished. Wang was smiling shopkeeper closed down. Open clay, revealing an attractive flavor, is a chicken, a chicken stew made special. Wang dispensers are smart people, suddenly realize the true meaning, simmer chicken wrapped with clay, not to the taste lost, truly authentic, if combined with other ingredients, condiments, some sight to behold. Wang dispensers immediate hands-on production, and later continued to improve, and she became a famous dish. This dish originated in the beggar's story gained, it named Beggar Chicken. There is a legend dish Changshu champion, set two generations of imperial division Weng Weng phase that the king sent asking for a light salt dispensers of charity, great civilizing role, even the beggars have moved, but also educate the name of the dish as the chicken. But people talked about the story or a beggar trying to slip, used to say Beggar Chicken.

Practice

Changshu Beggar Chicken production materials:
Ingredients: hen 1500 grams, net oil 400 grams Accessories pig: pork (lean) 100 grams, 50 grams of chicken gizzards, shrimp 50 grams mushrooms (fresh) 25 grams ham 25 grams spices: onion, 50 grams of sesame oil 50 grams, 10 grams ginger, soy sauce 250 grams, onion 25 grams, cloves 5 grams, rice wine 50 grams, 5 grams of salt, nutmeg 1 g, sugar 20 grams of sweet bean paste 50 grams of star anise 3 grams, lard (refining) 50 g

Changshu Beggar Chicken features:
Entrance Sulan juicy, unique flavor.

Changshu Beggar Chicken practice:
1 Wash pork, cut into cubes;
2 Wash chicken gizzard;
3 ginger, mince;
4 green onions to the roots, wash and cut green onion;
5 mushrooms stalks, washed, cut into small;
6 cooked ham, cut into small;
7. Nutmeg cut at the end;
8 Wash shrimp and drain;
9 Wash the chicken gizzard, cut into small;
8 chicken ham hair, chopping off feet, opened in the left armpit about 3 centimeters of the small mouth, digging organs, out of the trachea and esophagus, clean blood, dry water;
9 struck off the chicken wings with a knife blade bone, leg, neck, into the bowl, add soy sauce, rice wine 25 grams, refined salt, marinate for 1 hours out;
10. The cloves, star anise, the amount expected to be ground into the end, add nutmeg and even the end, wipe the chicken itself;
11 stir the pot on the hot, ladle into lard, burning troughs twelve hot, add chopped green onion, ginger, star anise and stir-fry;
12. Then add shrimp, pork, Ding, Ding chicken gizzards, fried ham Britain, cooked into the rice wine 25 grams, add soy sauce 25 grams of sugar, fry off students, is filling;
13 to be let cool, the filling of chicken armpit incision from the belly filled chicken, stuffed the chicken head cut, the two axillary put a clove of grip, with net oil-tight package chicken pig body;
14. First with a lotus leaf parcel, then cellophane, and then wrapped in a layer of leaves outside, with a growth of fine linen lashing round;
15 to 3000 g clay jars, ground into powder, add water mixing, the mud wrap the chicken about 1.5 cm thick, then wrapped in wrapping paper;
16 will be wrapped into the clay oven chicken, grilled with Wang 40 minutes, depending on the mud dry, fill cracks in the mud;
17 Wang then roasted for 30 minutes, use a small roast 1 hour and 20 minutes, and finally micro-roasted 1 hour and 30 minutes;
18 Remove the knock down mud, the solution to the rope, thrown off the leaves, cellophane, topped with sesame oil and serve.

Changshu Beggar Chicken production tips:
1. Yushan production Beggar Chicken specialty to choose, the first large body, the delicate three yellow fat hen, that yellow mouth, yellow feet, yellow hair. One weighing 1500 g or so better.
(2) knock off the wings with a knife blade bone, leg, neck, you can not damage the chicken skin, whole chicken to make chicken skin integrity.
3 outside the oil and then wrapped in lotus leaf net is to prevent scorching the chicken, then add the leaves smell.
4 tied with chicken wrapped in clay jars, they can put on a mud flat on a damp cloth, about 1.7 cm thick, then the chicken on the middle of the mud, picked up the tight corners of the cloth bag, to make mud stick tight cement, and then thrown off a damp cloth, then wrapped in wrapping paper and serve.
5. Simmer roasted, some with an oven, while others use charcoal. If using charcoal grill simmer, generally chicken on rack, close to simmer charcoal grill, turning every half hour one time, about 4 hours to simmer roast cooked.