Chinese Steamed Chicken With Shiitake Mushrooms 冬菇蒸雞
Chinese Steamed Chicken With Shiitake Mushroom 冬菇蒸雞 is a classic Cantonese household favourite dish bursting with umami flavour. Tender chicken meat, fragrant shiitake mushrooms, and Chinese sausage are easy and require little cooking effort directly in the rice cooker.
- Prep time
- 25 min
- Cook time
- 25 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4-6 Chicken thighs, sliced 雞腿
- 8-10 shiitake mushrooms 冬菇 , resuscitated, sliced
- 2 inch knob of Ginger 薑, julienned
- 1 tbsp Light Soy Sauce 生抽
- 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce 老抽
- 1/2 tbsp Brown Sugar 糖
- 1 tsp Corn Starch 粟粉
- 1 tsp Shaoxing Wine 紹酒
- Dash of Ground White Pepper 胡椒粉
- 1 tbsp Vegetable oil 油
- 1 tbsp Light Soy Sauce 生抽
- 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce 老抽
- 1/2 tbsp Brown Sugar 糖
- 1 tsp Corn Starch 粟粉
Instructions
- 1
Use coarse salt and give the chicken parts a good scrub.
- 2
Wash, trim, and dry the fresh chicken with kitchen paper towels.
- 3
Cut the boneless, skinless chicken thighs into smaller pieces on a heavy chopping board. Aim for bite-sized chicken pieces. Set aside.
- 4
In a large bowl, add chicken marinade ingredients. Mix well. Add sliced chicken. Mix well. Let marinade in the refrigerator for at least 20 mins.
- 5
Liberally squeeze excess water from the soak shiitake mushrooms in cold water. You can learn how to quickly prepare dried Chinese Mushrooms. Do not discard the soaking liquid from the resuscitated shiitake mushrooms. Save it to make noodle soup! It adds an instant umami!
- 6
Thinly slice the Chinese mushrooms. I like to leave a few mushrooms whole as well.
- 7
Add Shiitake mushrooms, marinade and a tablespoon of vegetable oil. Mix well. Let marinade in the refrigerator for at least 20 mins.
- 8
Wash 2 cups of white jasmine rice and add to your rice cooker. Add water per rice cooker instructions. Typically, add enough cold water, approximately 1 cm over covered rice.
- 9
Add the chicken mixture and marinated shiitake mushrooms in a single layer to a steaming plate.
- 10
There are three ways to steam this delicious steamed chicken with Chinese mushrooms recipe.
- 11
Method One: The traditional way, Chinese people steam this chicken pie dish by placing a trivet rack in the wok to raise the steaming tray and bring water to a boil on high heat for 22-25 mins.
- 12
Method Two: Cooking this one-pot steamed chicken recipe in the rice cooker. Rice cooker chicken rice is my favourite lazy people cooking method. Place the chicken and mushrooms on a deep plate in your rice cooker on a trivet rack. Set to "cook rice" mode. The juicy steamed chicken is also ready once your rice cooker finishes cooking the rice. Approximately 30 mins.
- 13
Method Three: Alternatively, for convenience, I prefer to steam in my Cuisinart steam convection oven for 25 minutes at Super Steam 400F.
- 14
Insert an instant-read thermometer at the thickest part of the chicken and check that the internal temperature of the chicken is at least 165F.
- 15
Serve and enjoy hot!