🫙 From the Spice Rack
Beggar's Chicken
10 small dried black mushrooms (such as shiitake or wood ear) 1/3 cup sliced canned water chestnuts 1/3 cup sliced canned bamboo shoots 5 or 6 slices Virginia ham
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Ingredients8 items
Ingredients
- 10small dried black mushrooms
- 1/3cupsliced canned water chestnuts
- 1/3cupsliced canned bamboo shoots
- 5or 6 slices virginia ham
- 1(3 pound) frying chicken
- 1teaspoonfive-spice powder
- 5teaspoonsalt
- 1teaspoonsesame oil
Directions
- 1
Beggar's Chicken 10 small dried black mushrooms (such as shiitake or wood ear) 1/3 cup sliced canned water chestnuts 1/3 cup sliced canned b
- 2
Drain, reserving liquid
- 3
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F
- 4
Remove and discard the stems from the mushrooms
- 5
Slice the mushroom caps, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and ham into uniform pieces about 1 inch long and 1/4 inch wide
- 6
Combine in a bowl
- 7
Rinse the chicken and pat it dry
- 8
Mix the five-spice powder and salt in a small bowl