Steamed chicken with snowpea leaves and green garlic ginger relish

Name: Steamed chicken with snowpea leaves and green garlic ginger relish
Ingredients: 5 green onions; 1 x 2 kg free-range, corn-fed chicken; 1 teaspoon sea salt; 3 slices ginger; 25 ml Chinese Shaoxing rice wine; 25 ml mirin; 1 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper; 125 ml White Chicken Stock; 6 teaspoons Green Garlic Ginger Relish; 25 ml soy sauce; 100 g snowpea leaves

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Spice

By Christine Manfield

Published 1999

About

This dish is so simple and clean-tasting: it relies on the pure flavour of good-quality chicken highlighted by the zesty freshness of the green garlic relish.

Ingredients

5 green onions
1 x 2 kg free-range, corn-fed chicken
3

Main course

Method

Chop 2 of the green onions and put into cavity of chicken with ginger, then truss legs. Rub sea salt and white pepper into skin of chicken.
Put chicken into a large bowl, breast-side up, then pour in stock, rice wine and mirin. Cover chicken with baking paper, then seal bowl with foil.
Stand bowl over a large saucepan of gently boiling water and steam