Name: Steamed Chicken with Hericium
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 Chickens; 400g Hericium erinaceus; 100g Black Fungus; 100g carrot; 50g ginger; 50g Green onions; 30g Cooking Wine; 5g salt; 5g Sugar; 25g Soy sauce; 30g Oyster sauce; 3g olive oil

Steamed Chicken with Hericium

by Hua Qing Rouyi

4.9 (1)

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Difficulty

Easy

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Serving

Hericium erinaceus is a rare Chinese traditional dish with tender, fragrant and delicious meat. It is one of the four famous dishes (hericium, bear's paw, sea cucumber, shark's fin). It is known as "mountain monkey head and seafood bird's nest". It is an extremely delicious mountain delicacy, with fresh and tender mushroom meat, mellow and delicious, and is known as "vegetarian meat". Studies have found that Hericium erinaceus contains many anti-cancer substances such as polypeptides, polysaccharides and fatty acyls, which have a good effect on enhancing the immune function of the body, have a good effect on gastrointestinal cancer, and are beneficial to wound healing after surgery. . Chicken is also the representative of delicious taste. This steamed dish is rich in ingredients and is very tasty because of the extremely long marinating time. One hour of steaming time makes the meat of the chicken more tender, and the deliciousness of all the side dishes is exuded. While delicious, this dish is nutritious, shiny and impeccable.

Steamed Chicken with Hericium

1. Wash the chicken, cut into large pieces, tear the soaked Hericium edodes into large pieces, slice the ginger, and cut the green onion into sections;

2. Put the chicken nuggets, hericium, fungus, green onion and sliced ginger into the container, add cooking wine, salt, sugar, light soy sauce, oyster sauce and olive oil, put on disposable gloves, and mix well;

3. Put the well-mixed chicken nuggets and mushrooms into the plate and let it taste for about 2 hours;

4. Cut the carrot into thick strips and mix into the marinated chicken nuggets and mushrooms;

5. Cover the plate with plastic wrap and put it into the pre-heated steaming oven, and the pure steaming function will time for 70 minutes;

6. Take it out and serve it directly on a plate. The meat is very tender.

Tips:
1. Hericium erinaceus is a large succulent fungus in the deep mountain and old forest. It has high nutritional content and is a veritable high-protein and low-fat food. When soaking the hair, it should be soaked in rice water for 1-2 days in advance;
2. Cooking this dish in a steaming oven is simple and convenient. The time for marinating chicken and mushrooms should not be too short, otherwise the taste will not be sufficient;
3. Cover with plastic wrap during the steaming process to prevent water vapor from entering the dish and affecting the taste.