白切雞 - White Cut Chicken

Author: Anita Jacobson

Categories: Main Dish

Cuisines: Chinese

Ingredients: Chicken

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 35 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken, about 1 1/2 kilogram
• 2 scallions
• 2 inch ginger, peeled and bruised
• 1 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Suggested dipping sauce
• ginger and kaempferia galanga dipping sauce
• garlic and chili sweet sauce

Instructions

1. Stuff scallions and ginger inside the chicken cavity.
2. Boil a pot of water and gently lower the chicken into the pot, breast side down. Once the water boils again, reduce heat, cover the pot, and simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Turn the chicken so the breast side is now up, then cover again, and simmer for another 15 minutes.
4. Turn off heat, and let the chicken soak in the hot water for another 10 minutes.
5. Remove the chicken from the pot, then brush the entire chicken with a mixture of sesame oil and salt. Let it cool to room temperature then carve the chicken. Serve with some dipping sauce of your choice.