Steamed Chicken with Green Onion

Name: Steamed Chicken with Green Onion (Ts’ung yu chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 whole chicken (about 2-½ pounds); 1 tablespoon salt; 3 slices ginger; 2 green onions (to marinate chicken); 2 green onions (to marinate chicken); ⅓ cup shredded young ginger; ½ cup shredded green onion; 1-½ tablespoon wine (to marinate chicken); 1-½ tablespoon wine (to marinate chicken); 5 tablespoons oil

Ts’ung yu chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 whole chicken (about 2-½ pounds)
2 green onions (to marinate chicken)

Asia
Taiwan
Fukien
Kwangtung
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Crush green onion and ginger with flat of knife, put in bowl with wine and salt, mix well.
Clean and rub the chicken with #1 ingredients (outside and inside) soak about ½ hour, but not over 2 hours.
Place the bowl of chicken and marinate in boiling steamer to steam over high heat for 10 to 15 minutes.
Turn off heat and remove the chicken aft