Salt Baked Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

Directions

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