Yán Jū Jī - 盐焗鸡
salted fried chicken
Ingredients:
1 heavy chicken
1 tsp salt
1 tsp Shā Jiāng/沙姜 or Shān Nài/山奈 (type of ginger)
1/2 tsp white pepper
1/4 tsp kunyit
3 spring onions
6 cm jahe
2 tbsp oil
Ingredients sauce:
1 spring onion
1 tsp ginger paste
Preparation:
Mix the salt with the Shā Jiāng, the pepper, the kunyit and the oil. Rub the chicken in with this (inside and outside) and let it marinate for at least 4 hours.
Cut the spring onion into pieces and the jahe into thin slices. Stuff the chicken with this. Place the chicken in a pan and cover it with the lid. Then bake the chicken in an oven at 180gr for 1 hour. Then let it rest covered for 30 minutes. Then cut the chicken into pieces and serve it with the sauce.
Preparation sauce:
Finely chop the spring onion. Mix this with the ginger paste and 3 tbsp of the chicken stock.