Steamed Chicken With Salt, Ginger And Wine

Though this is a very simple dish, it is one of our all-time favorites. This chicken (preferably 'choy yuen kai' or farm bred chicken with no hormone jabs coz the meat is firmer and tastier) is steamed with salt, chinese cooking wine and slices of ginger and goes well with the minced ginger-garlic-spring onion sauce with olive oil and soya sauce.

Ingredients and method for steaming the chicken:

1) Mix the chicken well with 1 tbs of corn flour. The corn flour will make the chicken meat more tender and not rough. Some people don't like corn flour in the chicken but I prefer it as the meat is much more tender and easier for my 2 toddlers to chew and swallow.

2) Around 2 tbs of chinese cooking wine.

3) Rub chicken with salt.

4) Sliced ginger

5) Steam chicken for around 15-20 minutes.


Ingredients for sauce:

1) Garlic

2) Ginger

3) Spring onions

4) Olive oil

5) Soya sauce

You can blend the garlic, ginger and spring onions together or simply mince them.