Must-eat Dishes for New Year’s Eve Dinner, Glutinous Rice Chicken with Lotus Leaves
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First of all, prepare the ingredients. The ingredients I choose are mushrooms, chestnuts, and peanuts. These go well with chicken. You can also put some peas or corn. The color combination will be more beautiful. The best use of chicken drumsticks is because chicken drumsticks The meat is firm and chewy, and tastes better.
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Soak the glutinous rice in advance. It is best to soak the peanuts the night before. The peanuts are also soaked with the glutinous rice. They will soften faster when steamed.
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Take the soaked glutinous rice out of the pot and steam it. Be sure to spread the cloth so that the rice grains will not fall off and will not stick to the grate. Clean the pot. Steam the glutinous rice on high heat for 20 minutes. You don’t need to steam it too well. Because we have to steam it with the chicken later.
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When steaming the glutinous rice, let’s take care of the lotus leaves. This is a dried lotus leaf. One sheet is very big. After cutting it, you can pack three to four glutinous rice chickens. Tea is usually sold in places that sell tea, and it is not expensive. It costs 1 yuan per piece. It is very good to use it to steam glutinous rice or soak in water.
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Put the lotus leaf in hot water and boil it immediately, it will become very soft immediately, it is easy to handle when wrapping the meat, and it will not crack. After it is cooked, take it out and wash it and use it.
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Wash and blanch the mushrooms with hot water, then cut into small cubes. I use fresh mushrooms. If you use dried mushrooms, just cut them directly after soaking. After the chestnuts are cooked, peel them and cut them into small pieces for later use.
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Remove the bones of the chicken thigh meat, then cut into pieces, add salt, five-spice powder, light soy sauce and dark soy sauce to color. If time permits, we can do this step of marinating the meat at the same time as soaking the glutinous rice. The marinating time is longer. It will be very tasty, and the color of the meat will be very reddish on the light soy sauce and dark soy sauce, which makes it more appetizing.
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Pour a spoonful of oyster sauce
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Pour a spoonful of cooking oil, because chicken thigh meat is lean meat without any fat, adding a little oil can make glutinous rice more oily and taste better.
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Stir the chicken and all the seasonings evenly, then marinate for more than half an hour to let the chicken taste.
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Pour the steamed glutinous rice into a large bowl, top with chopped shiitake mushrooms, chestnuts and peanuts.
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Pour in the marinated chicken
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Then stir the glutinous rice, chicken and all the ingredients evenly, taste the salty and light taste of the glutinous rice, and add some salt in an appropriate amount, so that the filling of the lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken is complete.
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Take a boiled lotus leaf, cut it in half, and put the glutinous rice chicken.
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Fold the lotus leaf up and down, left and right, in half
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Tie it with a string and steam it in a pot.
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Put the prepared lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken in the pot, steam for 40 minutes after the water is boiled, take it out and let it dry and you can eat it. It is very delicious, soft and salty, with endless aftertaste.
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Very tasty
