Zhejiang is called Hua Tong Chicken

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a man named Huazi, who stole a hen, and in the absence of a pot and a stove, he wrapped the chicken in mud and grilled it in a purple fire.

After cooking, peel off the mud, and the taste of the food is delicious and abnormal. Later, this mud roasting technique was introduced to the restaurant restaurant, and after continuous development and improvement, it has gradually become a traditional famous dish in Hangzhou.

The cooking method is: "Select a tender hen weighing about 1.5 kg, slaughter and wash it, open and remove the internal organs, marinate it with shan nai, star anise, soy sauce, shaojiu, sugar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, green onion, ginger shreds and marinade, and then wrap it layer by layer with lard oil, lotus leaves, cellophane, tie it with fine hemp rope, wrap the outermost part of the good wine altar mud (and mud with cooking wine and fine salt), put it in the oven and bake for 3 to 4 hours, [扌盍] to remove the mud, dip in pepper salt, spicy soy sauce to accompany the food."