Steamed Herbal Chicken

Recipe: Steamed Herbal Chicken药材鸡

Serves: 2 - 3

Ingredients

2 pcs chicken leg quarter (600g) 2 TBSP barbary wolfberry / goji berry (枸杞) Ingedients A 4g dried pilose asiabell root (党参) 12g dried angelica sinensis slice (当归) 15g dried polygonthemum (玉竹) 4 red dates; halve or halve but do not cut through (红枣) ½ cup + ¼ cup water

Marinade 2 TBSP ShaoXing cooking wine 1 to 2 small drops sesame oil (*optional) ¼ tsp. + 1/8 tsp. salt ½ tsp. light soy sauce ¼ tsp. oyster sauce

Measurements: tsp. = teaspoon | TBSP = tablespoon

Preparation
1. Rinse all herbs of ingredients A. Bring ingredients A to a boil in a small stockpot. Reduce heat to low and continue to simmer for 10 minutes. Heat off. Allow ingredients A to cool completely.	2. Clean chicken. Cut chicken into serving pieces and put them in a mixing bowl.	3. Add the marinade to chicken.
4. Mix the marinade evenly and "massage" the chicken with hand.	5. Add ingredients A to chicken. Mix evenly. Cover mixing bowl with aluminium foil and let chicken marinate in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes if possible.	6. Take chicken out from the refrigerator. Roughly toss chicken in mixing bowl. Then, transfer chicken together with its maride to a microwavable deep serving plate.
7. Cover plate with aluminium foil. Alternatively, you can wrap chicken in aluminium foil, then put the wrapped chicken on a microwavable plate.	8. Heat up steamer. Steam chicken over high heat for 30 minutes until chicken is cooked. Serve hot.

Notes

You can leave ingredients A to marinate chicken together with the marinade if you don't want to pre-boil them. Wrap ingredients with aluminium foil and let them marinate for at least 1 hour.