Wineshark Home Cooking - Steamed Salted Chicken with Sand Ginger 鹽焗沙薑雞

Ingredients (for 4):

• Chicken - 1
• Spring onion - 2 sprigs
• Ginger - 8 slices
• Shaoxing wine - 1 tbsp
• Sand ginger powder - 2 tsp + 1.5 tsp
• Black pepper finely - dashes 
• Cumin powder - dashes
• Salt - 4 tsp + 0.5 tsp
• Cooked oil - 3 tsp
• Sesame oil - 1 tsp

Procedures:

1.  Cut away the chicken head and feet.

2. Soak the chicken in salted water for 30 minutes.

3. Cut the spring onion into sections. Cut the ginger into slices.

4. Mix the marinade, including sand ginger powder, black pepper finely, cumin powder and salt.

5. Use 3 tsp of the marinade to wipe the inside of the chicken, then use the rest of marinade to wipe the outside. Stuff the spring onion and ginger inside the chicken. Put in fridge to marinate overnight.

6. Mix sand ginger powder, salt, black pepper finely, cooked oil and sesame oil for the dipping sauce.

7. Take the chicken out from the fridge to let it warm to room temperature. Then wipe on the outside with Shaoxing wine.

8. Steam the chicken at high heat for 10min. Then turn to low heat and continue to steam for 20 minutes.

9. Cut the chicken into pieces to serve.