Wufu Drunken Chicken
A traditional specialty of Wufu Town, Zhejiang. The chicken is poached and then steeped in yellow wine, producing tender meat with a rich, fragrant aroma.
Ingredients
Tender plump chicken (slaughtered, defeathered, gutted, and rinsed)
1000 g
Shaoxing yellow wine
500 g
Fine salt (thinly coat inside and outside of the chicken)
10 g
Scallion knot
1
Ginger slices
2 slices
Instructions
1
Poach the chicken
Bring half a pot of water to a boil. Add the scallion knot and ginger slices, then place the chicken in the pot and poach until a chopstick can pierce through the meat. Remove the chicken.
2
Marinate
Thinly coat the inside and outside of the chicken with salt. Once the chicken has cooled, chop it into pieces and arrange them in a clean ceramic pot. Pour in the yellow wine until the chicken pieces are just submerged. Cover the pot tightly and marinate for two days.
