The ingredients for tea-smoked chicken: 1 chicken, 40 milliliters of old soy sauce, 150 grams of uncooked rice, 100 grams of rock sugar, 20 grams of earl grey tea leaves,

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The steps for making tea-smoked chicken:

1. Mix salt, Shaoxing wine, and soy sauce in a bowl, pour into the cleaned chicken cavity, and rub all over the chicken.

2. Put the soaked broth mixture into a cloth bag, add ten cups of water, and simmer slowly for twenty minutes. Add salt, Shaoxing wine, and chicken; continue to simmer until the chicken skin starts to puff up, then remove the chicken.boilfor twenty minutes, add salt, Shaoxing wine, and chicken, slow-cook until the chicken skin puffs up, remove the chicken.

3. Place a layer of aluminum foil in a large pot, sprinkle with white rice, black tea, and sugar, place the chicken on the steaming rack, cover the pot lid, and use high heat to smoke the chicken. Smoke until smoke comes out, then count down for three minutes before turning off the fire, do not open the lid, let it sit for five more minutes before removing.steamfor,

4. Once smoked, cut the chicken into pieces and serve with appropriate scallions on top.