Chinese Food
Baked chicken leg in salt (oven version)
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Salt baked chicken is a special traditional Hakka dish of Guangdong cuisine. It's also one of the local Hakka dishes in Guangdong. It's made by baking the whole chicken in an iron pot with coarse salt. It's easy to eat and not easy to make. In fact, salt baked chicken has a unique way. It's simple, but it has a strong flavor, smooth skin, yellow color, crispy skin, tender meat and fresh bone meat. It's delicious. If you want to eat salt baked chicken everyday, it will take a lot of time or no materials on hand. All kinds of restrictions lead to not being able to eat well. In fact, it's a good choice to make a simple version of appetizer with the oven.
Cooking ingredients
Cooking Steps
Step1:Clean the chicken legs.
Step2:Take two pieces of ginger, peel and shred.
Step3:Put the drumsticks in a bowl. Add the shredded ginger. Pour in the cooking wine, mix well and marinate for 15 minutes.
Step4:Wash the salted chicken legs. Use kitchen paper to dry the water. Use toothpick to make some tight holes in the chicken legs.
Step5:Mix in the salted chicken powder and marinate for more than one hour.
Step6:Clean the scallion and cut it into small sections.
Step7:Put two pieces of tin paper on the baking tray. Put in ginger slices and scallion.
Step8:Put in the marinated chicken legs. Sprinkle with green.
Step9:Wrap the chicken legs in tin paper. Leave no space. Put them in the preheated oven. Bake them for 30 minutes at 200 degrees.
Step10:The chicken leg baked in salt with tender meat is ready.
Cooking tips:1. Marinate it with cooking wine. Then wash it out or put salt baked chicken powder to make it bitter. 2. It's convenient to make some holes in the chicken leg. You can also cut it twice with a knife. 3. It can be marinated one night in advance and put in the fridge. This can save time when baking. There are skills in making delicious dishes.
