Smoked Chicken Peiping Style

Name: Smoked Chicken Peiping Style (Hsun chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ cup flour; ½ cup sugar; 1 tablespoon sesame oil or chicken grease.; ½ cup black tea leaves; 1 tablespoon sesame oil or chicken grease.; 1 piece cinnamon stick (½” long); 1 cup soy sauce; 3 slices ginger; 2 star anise; 1-½ tablespoons salt; 1 green onion; 1 young chicken (about 2-½ pounds); 2 tablespoons brown peppercorn

Hsun chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 young chicken (about 2-½ pounds)
2 tablespoons brown peppercorn

Asia
Taiwan
Shantung
Hopeh
Honan
Shansi
Main course

Method

Clean and wipe the chicken, rub with fried brown peppercorn and salt which have been fried over low heat in dry frying pan about 1 minute. Let sit at least 5 hours.
Boil 8 cups water in a large pot. Add green onion, ginger, star anise, cinnamon, and soy sauce, cook for 10 minutes. Add the chicken, continue to cook 10 more minutes over low heat. (Turn over once)