Name: Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice Chicken
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 pcs Chicken leg; 50g Dried shiitake mushrooms; Some Miscellaneous vegetables; 7 sheets Lotus leaf; 1 bowl (large bowl) Sticky rice; Some Salted egg yolk; Some Green onion ginger; 2 tablespoons Soy sauce; 2 tablespoons Cooking Wine; 2 tablespoons Oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon Sugar; Some salt

Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice Chicken

by Qingshuizy

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The lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken is one of the traditional famous spots in Guangdong morning tea. It is smooth and delicious and has a unique flavor. The stickiness of glutinous rice, the smoothness of chicken, the freshness of shiitake mushrooms, and the fragrance of lotus leaves permeate each other between one stir-frying and steaming. Slowly open the lotus leaves, the umami is overflowing, and the tangy fragrance makes people have a long aftertaste. The glutinous rice chicken has a variety of methods, and the ingredients are added as you like. The remaining duck egg yolks from the previous baking are also wrapped in, it is very fragrant!

Lotus Leaf Glutinous Rice Chicken

1. Soak the lotus leaves in hot water in advance, and then wash them for later use.

2. Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in advance and set aside

3. To deal with chicken legs, we will introduce a method for quick deboning of chicken legs. Cut off the ankle of the chicken leg with a knife to expose the bone. Use scissors to press the bones from the opening and cut the meat. Then cut all the meat connected around the bone until it reaches the top of the bone. Cut off the rest of the top. The bones and meat are completely separated.

4. Dice the chicken thighs

5. Dice the mushrooms and prepare the ingredients

6. Pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pan. After the oil is hot, put the chicken in the pan and stir-fry until the color changes. Put the green onion and ginger into the pot and stir fry until it is fragrant.

7. Put the diced mushrooms and mixed vegetables into the pot and stir-fry evenly. Stir in the dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, and salt and stir well.

8. Put the glutinous rice in the pot and stir evenly.

9. Fried glutinous rice chicken rice

10. Take a lotus leaf and spread it out, then put an appropriate amount of glutinous rice in the center.

11. Wrap the glutinous rice

12. This one contains salted egg yolk

13. All wrapped up!

14. Put the wrapped glutinous rice in a steamer and steam it on high heat for 20 minutes.

Tips:
1. Dried lotus leaves are sold on Taobao. You don't need to buy too big, but medium big is enough.
2. Add sausage diced, fungus, etc. according to your own taste.