Steamed and Smoked Chicken

Name: Steamed and Smoked Chicken (K’uei hua t’ai yeh chi)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon five spice powder; 5 cups soup stock; ½ cup soy sauce; ⅓ cup wine; ½ cup sugar; ½ cup rice; ½ cup tea; 1 tablespoon wine; 1 green onion; ½ chicken (about ½ pounds); 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup soup stock; ½ chicken (about 2 pounds); 2 slices ginger; 10 oz. mustard plant

K’uei hua t’ai yeh chi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

Ingredients A

½ chicken (about ½ pounds)
1 teaspoon salt

Asia
Taiwan
Kwangdong
Main course

Method

Rub chicken with crushed green onion and ginger. After marinating for 2 hours, steam chicken over high heat and salt for 10 minutes. Remove and let cool, then remove bone from chicken and slice into 1” by 2” pieces.
Use the stem of the mustard plants. Slice each stem into 2 inch long pieces, and scald in boiling water. Cook with 1 cup chicken soup until tender