Steamed Chicken with Black Beans & Chopped Salted Chillies

Name: Steamed Chicken with Black Beans & Chopped Salted Chillies
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 spring onion (scallion), cut into julienne; 125 ml (4 fl oz/¾ cup) fresh chicken stock; 3 free-range or organic chicken legs, chopped through the bone into bite-sized pieces; ½ teaspoon sea salt; 1 tablespoon shaoxing; 2 teaspoons sugar; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon fermented black beans; 2 tablespoons chopped salted chillies; 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 1 teaspoon finely chopped ginger

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Balance and Harmony

By Neil Perry

Published 2008

About

This easy self-saucing dish has plenty of fire from the chopped salted chillies. You could also just use fresh chillies and the dish would still be great, but the chopped salted ones add another level of complexity. This simple Sichuan-style steaming really suits fish as well — try a blue eye trevalla or bar cod.

Ingredients

3 free-range or organic chicken legs, chopped through the bone into bite-sized pieces
2 tablespoons chopped salted chillies

Asia
China
Main course

Method

Blanch the chicken for 1 minute in boiling water, then remove, rinse and dry well. This is important to stop the sauce getting protein scum in it.

Mix together the chicken, ginger, garlic, shaoxing, chillies, black beans, sea salt, soy sauce, sugar and chicken stock in a heatproof bowl that fits into your steamer.

Place the bowl in a large steamer over a pot or