Content

• Ingredients
• Steps
• Part 1 of 3: Prepare the chicken
• Part 2 of 3: Prepare your steamer
• Part 3 of 3: Cooking the Chicken
• Tips
• What do you need

Steamed chicken has long been a traditional oriental dish. Now this tasty and healthy dish is increasingly being served to the table in European countries.This recipe is surprisingly simple, but you can easily cook delicious chicken meat that literally melts in your mouth.

Ingredients

• Chicken carcass weighing 1.6 kg
• 240 milliliters of water
• 240 milliliters of white wine
• 4 centimeters fresh ginger root
• 1 bunch of green onions
• 3 cloves of garlic
• Salt
• Pepper

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Prepare the chicken

1. 1 Buy a bamboo steamer from an oriental food store or online store. The bamboo steamer is thick enough but allows water vapor to pass through the bottom of the basket. The bamboo steamer is a very useful piece of kitchen utensil and you can get one at an affordable price.
2. 2 Choose good quality chicken. For this recipe, it is recommended that you choose farm-raised chicken, as the taste of the meat is central to this dish. Farm-raised chicken is better suited for recipes where the meat is seasoned with gravy.
3. 3 If you took frozen chicken, you must first defrost it. Leave the carcass in the refrigerator for a day, during which time it should completely defrost. Once the chicken is thawed, you should start cooking it as soon as possible.
4. 4 Season the chicken. Salt the inside and outside of the carcass, then pepper.
5. 5 Peel the ginger and garlic. Finely grate the ginger and chop the garlic.
6. 6 Chop the green onions into 5-centimeter pieces. Take two-thirds of the garlic, onion and ginger and fill the poultry with this mixture. You will need the remaining third for the steamer.

Part 2 of 3: Prepare your steamer

1. 1 Place the bamboo steamer in a thick-walled saucepan. Place the remaining onions, garlic and ginger in the bottom of the bamboo basket.
2. 2 Lay the chicken on top, breast side up. The chicken must fit completely in the pot and the lid must cover the pot completely. You will not need to use the top of the steamer basket.
3. 3 Pour 1: 1 wine and water into a saucepan. If your saucepan is large and you feel that there is not enough liquid to create steam for an hour, use more liquid. Take the same proportion of wine and water.

Part 3 of 3: Cooking the Chicken

1. 1 Bring the liquid to a boil. When the liquid boils, reduce heat to low.
2. 2 Place a lid on the saucepan and cook for at least an hour.
3. 3 To check if the chicken is done, remove the lid from the pot. Then cut the breast in several places. If clear juice flows out, the chicken is ready.
4. 4 Remove the chicken and let sit for 10 minutes. Cover the chicken with foil.
5. 5 You can save the remaining liquid in the pot and use it as broth. If you want to make a sauce for chicken with it, leave it in a saucepan and heat it over low heat, without closing the lid.
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Tips

• You can serve the chicken with rice, vegetables, or salad. You have a dietary meal, and if you didn't eat all of the chicken at once, you can use the meat to add to salads or eat it with spaghetti.

What do you need

• Bamboo steamer basket
• Thick-walled saucepan
• Plate
• Peeler
• Knife
• Grater
• Cutting board