Steamed Chicken with Salted Soy Beans

Author: Anita Jacobson

Categories: Main Dish

Cuisines: Chinese

Ingredients: Chicken

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 15 mins

Total Time: 30 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 500 gram chicken breast/thigh meat, bite size
• Marinating sauce
• 1 tablespoon salted soy beans (Indonesian: tauco)
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon Shaoxing wine
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
• Other ingredients
• 1 tablespoon corn starch/tapioca starch
• 2 tablespoon water
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 inch ginger, minced
• 1-2 bird eye chilies, seeded and thinly sliced
• 1-2 scallions, thinly sliced

Instructions

1. Mix chicken with marinating sauce and let the chicken marinate for 1 hour.
2. Preheat a steamer on high heat.
3. Add corn starch/tapioca starch, water, garlic, ginger, and half of sliced chilies and scallions. Mix well.
4. Transfer to a steam proof bowl (e.g. a 9" Pyrex pie dish), and steam on medium-high heat for 10 minutes.
5. Remove from steamer. Garnish with the other half of sliced chilies and scallions. Serve with steamed white rice.