Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 1/2 lb Frying chicken 4 lb Wet modeling clay
3 Dried lotus leaves

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1/2 lb Ground pork 1 tb Peanut oil
2 tb Salted mustard green 1 ts Sugar
-minced 1 ts Fresh ginger root, minced

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1/2 ts Salt 1 ts Sesame oil
1 tb Medium sherry 1 tb Dark soy sauce

Prepare Chicken: Trim excess fat from chicken; remove wing tips. Mix
mixture for skin; rub chicken inside and out with it. Leave uncovered at
room temperature, while coating is absorbed and dried. Repeat if
necessary. Stuffing: In hot wok, heat peanut oil to smoking. Stir- fry
ground pork 2 minutes; add mustard green, ginger and sugar; stir-fry 1 more
minute. Remove and cool. Lotus Leaves: Number of leaves depends on their
size and that of chicken. Reduce heat under boiling water to simmer, and steep
leaves for 3-5 minutes, until wet through and pliable (no longer or leaves
may shred). Now soak in cold water for 10 minutes, or longer, until time to
use them; open folded leaves in cold water to wash them. Wrap Chicken:
Preheat oven to 550 degrees. Stuff chicken with pork mixture. Cut hard
center out of lotus leaves, then slit along fold about 3" on each side of
center, so cut away center can be overlapped. Wrap chicken in 3 layers of
lotus leaves. Tie securely with piece of cotton or fiber string (don't use
nylon; it might melt). Spread soft, wet modeling clay about 1/2" thick on
sheet of newspaper. Bring clay pack around chicken and seal. Remove
newspaper. (Use foil if clay unavailable.) Roasting: Place clay-covered
chicken on rack in shallow roasting pan in preheated oven. Bake for 1 hour;
reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for another 1 1/2 hours. Serve: Present
fired clay chicken to table. Crack clay with suitable object, allowing
some of steam to escape before you proceed. Remove clay; carefully cut
open lotus leaves with scissors. Chicken will be very soft and tender; break
apart to get at stuffing. Serve guests, or invite them to pick with
chopsticks. Serves 4

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