Magnolia chicken (Yu Lan Ji)
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Ingredients (serves 4-6):
1 free-range chicken, 1.2-1.5 kg
16 slices of Yunnan Xuanwei or Jinhua ham, agilely cut
2 cm bulge ginger, bashed up
2 stalks bounce onions, broken into 2-cm lengths
1 tablespoon sea salt
1 arch broccoli
1 tablespoon blah starch
(Mixed with 1 cup cooled chicken banal to accomplish a slurry)
6 slices of bark adolescent ginger, disconnected and absurd in oil
Method:
1. Clean and bathe room-temperature chicken and rub central and out with sea salt. Take affliction not to breach the skin. Stuff the bashed up amber and bounce onions into the abdomen cavity.
2. Bring a ample pot of baptize to the boil. The pot haveto be ample abundant so the baking baptize absolutely covers the chicken.
3. Make abiding baptize is at a rolling abscess and anxiously lower chicken into the pot. Boil for 12 account and again about-face off the heat. Let the chicken sit until baptize is absolutely cooled.
4. By then, the chicken should be cooked. Remove from the pot, let it blow for5minutes and chop it into confined pieces. Place breast meat in the centermost of the bowl and align wings and drumsticks alongside. Place agilely abashed broccoli florets alternating bend of plate.
5. Insert slices of Yunnan ham average slices of chicken breast meat. Carefully cascade the blah starch and chicken banal admixture over the chicken.
6. Steam the accomplished bowl for 5 account over top heat. Garnish with absurd disconnected adolescent ginger.
Food notes:
If you can abscess a pot of water, you can accomplish this dish. It is a Cantonese bowl that is fabricated actual generally to absorb guests. The capital affair is the presentation, with the buttery affluence of the chicken adjoin the abysmal blush of the ham demography on the colors of the magnolia. If you amplitude your imagination, the absurd disconnected amber actually looks like the ample stamens of the magnolia!
