Receta Country Style Steam Chicken
When I saw Cheah of No Frills Recipes posted her Country Style Steam Chicken, I just remember I cooked this similar dish many months ago. I don't know why I did not post the recipe until now .... sigh ... getting more forgetful nowadays. This Country Style Steam Chicken is one of my favourite dishes that I always eat with extra rice when my grandma cooked this for us when I was a little girl. It is a simple and delicious dish with the mixing of shredded cloud ears, sliced mushrooms, golden needle vegetable and bite sized chicken.
Here is the recipe
Ingredients:
(A)
- 3 Chicken thighs or half chicken, about 600g (cut into bite size)
- 1 tbsp Light soya sauce
- 1 tbsp Ginger juice
- 1tbsp Cooking Chinese cooking wine (hua tiao chiew 花雕酒)
- Marinate the above for few hours or overnight.
- (B)
- 10g Cloud ear (rinse thoroughly and soak in hot water till soft, shredded)
- 15g Golden needle vegetable (soak in hot water for 15 minutes, remove the hard parts and tie a knot)
- 4-5 Shitake mushrooms - slice thinly
- 4 slices Ginger
- 1/2 tbsp Garlic - chopped
- Seasoning sauce
- 1/2 tbsp Oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp Dark soya sauce
- 1 tbsp Light soya sauce
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp Chicken powder (with no MSG added)
- 3/4 tbsp Corn flour
- 5 tbsp Water
- Mix all the seasoning in a bowl or cup
Method:
Fry (B) ~ Heat wok with some oil, fry ginger and garlic for a while and add in shredded cloud ear, golden needle vegetable and sliced mushrooms, stir fry ingredients well.
Lower heat and pour in seasoning sauce, mix well and off heat leave ingredients to cool.
Mix well (A) marinated chicken meat together with the (B) ingredients in a corningware square dish or large plate. Cover corningware square dish with aluminium foil and steam at high heat for 30 minutes. (covering with aluminium foil is to prevent water from getting into the chicken meat during steaming).
**stir the chicken meat with a spoon after 15 minutes of steaming and continue to steam for another 15 minutes or till chicken meat is cooked.
Sprinkle some chopped spring onion when serve.
Enjoy!
Cloud ear or Wood ear (mu er 木耳) is an edible fungus used primarily in Asian cuisine. This is sold dried and need to be soaked before use. While almost tasteless, it is prized for its slightly crunchy texture.
Golden needle vegetable (gum jum 金针in Cantonese) is actually daylily refer to Wiki. You can also read more details from Taste HongKong.