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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Pek cam ke (Steam Chicken with green onion)

Ingredient:
  • Whole Chicken (around 2lb or 1kg)
  • 2 pieces sliced ginger
  • 1 green onion
Topping:
  • 2 Shredded green onion
  • 5 Thin slices shredded ginger
Marinated Sauce:
  • 1 Tbsp Cooking wine
  • 1 Tbsp Salt
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 1 Green onion cut into 4
  • 2 Slices of ginger

1. Rub all the marinated sauce all over the chicken, and into the cavity. Insert the ginger and the green onion into the cavity, leave it for one hour, or over night in the fridge. 
2. Place the chicken in the steamer, and steam the chicken for 15 minutes, breast up and flip it over and steam for another 15 minutes.
3. Cut the chicken into bite pieces, and retain the excess liquid that left in the steaming plate, and serve it later with the chicken.
4. Heat 3 Tbsp of vegetable oil and 1 tsp of sesame oil in the pan, heat it until very hot and drizzle it all over the chicken.
5. Top it with fresh shredded green onion and shredded ginger.
6. Served with chicken rice or steam rice.


ps: I like to leave my shredded green onion and ginger in the bowl of ice water to add the extra crisp before serving.

pss: Before drizzle the oil on to the chicken, I like to add some chopped garlic into the oil, if the oil hot enough, the garlic will cooked immediately.

psss: If you let the chicken over night in the fridge, it best to let it down in to the room temperature before steaming.

psss: I use corn chicken for this recipe, If you use whole chicken, please steamed it longer, around 30 minutes for each side, and don't forget to check the temperature before remove it from steamer (it should be around 160 F or 70 c) or simply pierce the chicken on the thickest side, if the liquid broth come out clearly not bloody, you are good to go.

note: to make chicken rice just mix ginger(slices) and garlic cloves to the rice cooker along with canned chicken broth. I found great value canned chicken broth works well with this recipe. 

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