Steam Half Chicken. When steaming chicken with a traditional steamer, fill the steamer pot half full of water and bring it to a full boil using a high heat. For additional flavor, herbs or other flavorings can be added to the water. Place the chicken in the steamer in a single layer, leaving a little room around the pieces.
Steaming is a really popular cooking method in every Chinese kitchen.
Steamed dishes are simple, quick and always tender in texture.
For poached version, please check white cut chicken.
You can have Steam Half Chicken using 3 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Steam Half Chicken
- Prepare Half of chicken.
- You need of Ginger powder.
- You need of Salt.
Put the chicken on the baking pan and put in the oven with the rack in the lower rack position. If dark meat is your preference, however, eating steamed chicken thigh is still better for you than chicken breast fried in fatty oil. I used a half cup of coarse kosher salt and a half cup of sea salt and it turned out great. Don't use regular table salt it is not the right kind of salt to use for any kind of Asian rub or marinade.
Steam Half Chicken step by step
- Wash properly the chicken and pat it dry. Then rub with ginger powder and salt..
- Boil water in a pot. When it start to boil, put chicken in. Steam for 20 mins.
I gave it four stars because the recipe didn't specify that. Otherwise the chicken kept moist tender and juicy. Half roast chicken is a classic beer garden menu item across Biergärten in Germany (especially in Bavaria) and Austria and it is one of the most recognizable specialties during Oktoberfest. In Munich chickens are spit-roasted until the skin is golden brown and crispy. Thousands of Oktoberfest Brathendl (Brathendl means roast chicken in Bavarian dialect; it is also called Wiesnhendl).