Steamed Chicken Strips with Rice Flour
A steamed chicken dish with a brownish-yellow hue, glossy and oily finish, and rich, mellow, aromatic, delicious flavor.
Ingredients
Instructions
Prepare the aromatics
Finely chop the ginger; finely chop the scallions; mince the raw chicken fat.
Prepare the chicken and season
After slaughtering and plucking the chicken, remove the innards, head, feet, and large bones. Cut the chicken into strips about 5 cm (roughly 1.5 cun) long and 1.2 cm (roughly 0.4 cun) wide, chop the wings into pieces, and place everything in a bowl. Add the soy sauce, sweet bean paste, fermented tofu liquid, Shaoxing wine, sugar, Sichuan peppercorn powder, chopped scallion, chopped ginger, and chicken fat, and mix well. Then add the rice flour and combine thoroughly.
Steam
Arrange the chicken strips neatly in a steaming bowl with the skin pressed against the bowl, place the wing pieces on top, and steam over high heat until cooked through. Remove from the steamer and invert onto a serving plate to serve.