Salt Baked Chicken

Recipe Cuisine: Chinese
Recipe Category: Chinese
Recipe Serves: 4

Recipes Ingredients:

3 lb Fryer
1 Whole star anise
6 lb Rock salt
2 tb Sherry
Parchment paper 1
tb Fresh ginger, minced
1/4 c Peanut oil
1 tb Garlic, minced
1 ts Salt
2 Green onions, chopped
3 tb Dark soy sauce

Recipe Instructions:

Preparation: Wash Chicken & pat dry. Swab cavity with sherry; stuff with ginger, Garlic & green onions; seal with clip or string. Rub outside of Chicken with dark soy sauce; allow to stand until soy Sauce is absorbed. Wrap Chicken in 3 layers of parchment paper, tie with string, coat outer layer with peanut oil. Baking: In Wok or large pot, heat rock salt, stirring periodically, until it begins to brown. Place wrapped Chicken in rock salt, spooning some salt around sides & over top. Cook for about 10 minutes. Turn over chicken, cover with rock salt (but always have at least 2" layer of salt under chicken) & cook for another 10 minutes. This cooking time will give a moist, slightly underdone chicken. Increase Baking time to 15 minutes on each side, for well done. Remove Chicken from salt; strip off paper; allow to stand for 15 minutes to cool & congeal juices. Cut in half, then into bite-size pieces. Serve with soy dip.