Hunan Roasted Chicken

There are three basic culinary genre's when it comes to Chinese cooking. There is Mandarin, Szechuan and Hunan. All three are wonderful and feature their own little nuances. For this dish, we will venture into the Hunan style of Chinese food, which means we will have a combination of slightly sweet and very savory.

When it comes to preparing a whole chicken, the Chinese have a special way of making sure the chicken is full-flavored and cooks quicker than usual. The full-flavor part comes from the fact they "score" the skin of the chicken. This simply means they do shallow cuts into the chicken through the skin before they marinate it. The quick cooking time comes from the fact they will usually split the chicken, which is basically removing the backbone, and this reduces the cooking time.

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