Wineshark Home Cooking - Chan's Steamed Chicken 陳家白切雞

Ingredients (for 4):

• Chicken - 1
• Salt - 1 tbsp
• Chinese yellow wine - 1 tbsp
• Ginger - 50g
• Spring onion - 3 sprigs
• Sesame oil - 1 tsp

Procedures:

1. Clean the chicken and remove the tail, lungs and membrane inside the cavity. Drip dry.

2. Grate the ginger.

3. Squeeze the grated ginger to extract the juice, retain the grated ginger as condiments.

4. Wipe the chicken with salt on both inside and out.

5. Mix the ginger juice with Chinese yellow wine, then wipe on the chicken thoroughly inside and out. Marinate for at least two hours. Turn the chicken over a few times throughout.

6. Chop the spring onion into pieces.

7. Wrap the chicken in microwave film, leaving the cavity exposed to allow heat to go inside. Add the ginger juice on the plate.

8. Steam under medium-high heat for 20 minutes, with the chest facing up.

9. Turn off the heat and keep the lid on for another 5 minutes. Then remove and unwrap. Brush with sesame oil on the chicken and wrap back for a while. Retain the chicken jus for later use.

10. Mix the grated ginger with spring onion, then add in 3 tsp of the chicken jus. Heat 2 tsp of oil and pour in to mix well.

11. Remove the film and cut the chicken into pieces to serve with the grated ginger and spring onion.