Steamed Chicken with Mushrooms
Deboned, marinated chicken is steamed together with Tricholoma mongolicum mushrooms, yielding a light, refreshing dish with tender, crisp, and savory notes.
Ingredients
Whole chicken (washed, deboned, chopped into pieces)
750 g
Mushrooms (washed, soaked in hot water until plump, skin on stems rubbed off, lightly rubbed with salt to whiten, sliced)
50 g
Chicken fat
20 g
Scallion (crushed)
20 g
Ginger (crushed)
20 g
Salt
10 g
MSG
6 g
Sugar
15 g
Cooking wine
30 g
Wet starch
30 g
Instructions
1
Marinating and Plating
Wash the chicken, remove the bones, and chop into pieces. Mix well with MSG, salt, sugar, and cooking wine, then coat with wet starch and toss with chicken fat before transferring to a bowl. Wash the mushrooms, soak them in hot water until plump, rub off the skin on the stems, lightly rub with salt to whiten, slice, and place on top of the chicken. Crush the scallion and ginger and place them on top.
2
Steaming
Steam over high heat for about 30 minutes until fully cooked. Remove, pick out the scallion and ginger, and transfer to a serving plate.