Chicken Steamed with Dried Mushrooms Recipe

Ingredients :

1/2 kg

4

2 slices

1 teaspoon

1 tablespoon

1 teaspoon

1 teaspoon

1 teaspoon

Chicken meat

Chinese dried mushrooms, soaked

Ginger root, peeled

Salt

Red wine or sherry

Sugar

Cornflour

Sesame seed oil

Freshly ground Szechwan pepper

• Use the breasts and thighs of a very young chicken.

• Cut into small pieces and mix with salt, rice wine or sherry, sugar and cornflour.

• Thinly shred the mushrooms and ginger root.

• Grease a heat-proof plate with a little oil or lard.

• Place the chicken pieces on it with the mushrooms and ginger root shreds on top.

• Add ground pepper and all the sesame seed oil.

• Steam vigorously for 20 minutes.

• Serve hot.