This is a home dish. In restaurants, they would make it fancier by steaming the chicken whole, then debone it, chop into small neat pieces and arrange alternating slices of chicken and cooked (western) ham, then pour a ginger-soy sauce gravy over. The two dishes are totally different in taste because of the different types of ham used and the method of cooking. I'm taking the easy way out.
Steamed Chicken With Chinese Ham N Mushrooms
1 corn-fed chicken, chopped into small pieces
10 dried chinese (shiitake) black mushrooms, soaked and halved
70 g Chinese jinhua ham, in thin slices
1 T fine ginger strips
1/2 t salt & 1/4 t white pepper
1 1/2 T cornflour
1 T shaoxin wine
1 1/4 T light soy sauce
1/4 t sugar
1/2 T sesame oil
2 T water
1. Mix everything together in a heat-proof plate/pan, tidy up the mushrooms and chicken, cover and leave in the fridge for at least 1 hour (time it so the dish is served hot).
2. Steam at high heat for 25 to 30 min. Serve hot with plain rice.
Did we compared dinner manu or what?? We'd almost the same dish sans ham last nite w/ my stir fried veg! It was K's dish, she prep'd it d nite before & i just ht steam it up. Urs looked yummy w/ the ham.
ReplyDeletemike: haha! actually i went out for a meal n came back after midnite n realised i have nothing to post so i used an old photo from when Yi was back here, so technically we didn't have d same dish at on d same day. tt'll really be a weird coincidence if we did :)
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GOod GOod! very good! I will make this one very SOoN!
NEE: hmmm...where can we get jinhua ham? thot that is so cantonese hongkong thingy. can we actually get it here.
ReplyDeleteyou should post your drunken chicken. it is yummy.
nee: we used to get it in kk arnd Chinese New Year but not anymore bc import of meat is regulated. i smuggle mine in fm Shanghai. u can get it in HK too. in cantonese it's called "kam wah foh tui"
ReplyDeletedenise: chickyegg very cheeky 2day!
ReplyDeleteNEE: ya i thot so. would most likely make a trip to hong kong coming january. where can i get in hong kong? o is it like any grocer stores? thanks
ReplyDeleteu can get it at a lot of grocer stores tt sell chinese dried foodstuff like dried scallops, m/rooms etc behind Nathan St in Tsimshatsui, HK n at d Shanghainese grocer i wrote about (see my post 'A Shanghainese Grocer in HK' under Travel: HK. d shop is in Causeway Bay (Tunglowan) in Kowloon.
ReplyDeleteTt'd B 2 weird. Kamlie's starting to think she's telepathic cos' we talk so much about UR blog. :-D
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