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    Chinese Steamed Chicken Recipe

    Last Modified: May 21, 2023 by Elaine| 95 Comments

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    Super easy Chinese steamed chicken with ginger and green onion which only requires 10 minutes of preparation. Matched with a fabulous oyster sauce-based sauce.

    Steaming might be the easiest way of cooking chicken. Steaming is a really popular cooking method in every Chinese kitchen. Steamed dishes are simple, quick, and always tender in texture. Simply marinate the chicken chunks for minutes to obtain a basic flavor, then transfer them to a steamer and steam. That’s so simple. I have made this steamed chicken recipe several times this summer.

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    Why steaming

    People in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces love to serve this chicken directly since the steamed chicken keeps the natural taste of a high-quality chicken. There are lots of umami components in chicken meat. Steaming can preserve the flavor to the maximum.

    Chinese steamed chicken|chinasichuanfood.com
    steamed chicken |chinasichuanfood.com

    Ingredients needed

    • Organic younger chicken: younger chicken is commonly used in steamed dishes, stir-fried or poached chicken.
    • green onion: also known as spring onion. It helps to enhance the flavor and move the raw taste of the chicken. Green onions can be replaced by scallions.
    • ginger: ginger is an important aromatic for food that use fewer seasonings. It helps to remove the raw taste.
    • Shaoxing wine: also known as Chinese cooking wine. It is widely used in meat dishes. You can substitute with dry sherry if desired.
    • salt to taste: since we will serve with a dipping sauce, spare the salt amount to make the chicken meat refreshing.
    • light soy sauce: light soy sauce gives a basic Umami flavor to the chicken.

    The oyster-based sauce

    I developed this oyster-based dipping sauce for this super simple steamed chicken. Oyster sauce is a savory, thick paste sauce popular in southern China. It goes super well with blanched vegetables and proteins. The reason why I choose an oyster sauce-based sauce is because of the thick paste texture, making it working not as a regular dipping sauce but as a lovely thick coating. This will form a very strong comparison with the juicy and tender steamed chicken.

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    Instructions

    Spread the marinating sauce evenly on the cleaned chicken—every place. Put ginger and green onion shreds on top and marinate at least for 30 minutes. If you are not in a hurry, I would suggest preparing the chicken in the morning and making this as lunch or dinner.

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    Steaming Tips

    1. If you get a rice cooker, you can choose to steam this along with the steamed rice. Simply get a rice cooker steamer. It's a lovely idea to save energy and time.
    2. Or you can also choose to steam this in a regular steamer for around 20 minutes.
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    🧾Recipe

    Chinese Steamed Chicken Recipe

    Elaine
    Easy and healthy Chinese steamed chicken recipe with a savory dipping sauce.
    5 from 18 votes
    Print Recipe
    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 20 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Chinese
    Servings 2
    Calories 445 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • Half of a whole chicken , around 1 and ½ pound
    • 1 tbsp. ginger shreds
    • 1 tbsp. green onion shreds , white part

    Marinating sauce

    • 1 tbsp. light soy sauce
    • 1 tsp. Chinese cooking wine
    • ½ tsp. salt

    Dip sauce

    • 1 tbsp. oyster sauce
    • 1 tbsp. light soy sauce
    • 4 tbsp. water
    • 1 garlic clove
    • 1 tbsp. chopped green onions
    • 1 tbsp. sesame oil

    Instructions

    • Clean the chicken and then spread the marinating sauce evenly on both sides.
    • Lay ginger shreds and green onion shreds over to marinate at least 30 minutes. Then place in your steamer. I am using the steamer of my electric rice cooker. If you are using a steamer with wok or pot, steam with high fire around 20 minutes until soft (or you can easily insert a chop sticker in). Transfer out and cut into chunks of your favorite size. Decorate with green onions.

    Dipping sauce

    • In a sauce pan, heat up 1 tablespoon sesame oil and stir fry chopped garlic and green onion until aroma. And then add oyster sauce, light soy sauce and water. Mix well and bring all the content to a boiling. Transfer to dipping bowl and cool down a little bit.
    • Serve steamed chicken with dipping sauce.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 445kcalCarbohydrates: 4gProtein: 32gFat: 32gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 122mgSodium: 1624mgPotassium: 379mgVitamin A: 375IUVitamin C: 6.2mgCalcium: 29mgIron: 2mg
    Keyword chicken, steamed
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    1. Junichiro

      May 04, 2023 at 4:12 am

      Nobody commented but I supposed you had better to know proper word. Not unami. Correctly you have to write "umami".

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      • Elaine

        May 21, 2023 at 9:58 am

        Thanks for the correction. Already changed.

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