Name: Zheng Ji (Steamed Chicken)
Yield: Serves 8 as Part of a Chinese Meal, or 4 as a Single Dish.
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons light soy sauce; 2 tablespoons finely chopped peeled fresh ginger root; 5 tablespoons finely chopped spring onions; 2 tablespoons peanut oil; 1 tablespoon sea salt; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; One chicken, about 1.6 kg/3 lb; ½ teaspoon salt; Pinch of sugar

Preparation info

Serves
8
as Part of a Chinese Meal, or 4 as a Single Dish.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Taste of China

By Ken Hom

Published 1990

About

On my first visit to my ancestral home, as part of the ritual of paying homage to our ancestors, I had to prostrate myself before the household shrines. As I did so, my cousin was dispatching a sacrificial chicken in the yard which was then quickly plucked and cleaned, rubbed with salt and steamed. The two of us offered it up to our common ancestors, bowing three times before the shrines. The chicken was then quickly cut into small portions and served to all the family with its ginger-sp