Phoenix-Dragon Chicken

Name: Phoenix-Dragon Chicken (龍鳳鷄)
Yield: This party dish would serve 6 to 8 easily as a main course.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 egg; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 cup all-purpose flour; 2 quarter -sized slices peeled ginger, minced; ¾ cup water; 1 medium clove garlic, lightly smashed and peeled; ½ cup shredded bamboo shoots; 2 cups fresh bean sprouts; 1 tablespoon dried mo-er mushrooms (presoaked); 4 large whole chicken breasts, skinned and boned; 8 thin slices cooked Smithfield ham or boiled ham; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 3 tablespoons stock or water; 4 cups oil; Sprinkling black pepper; ¾ cup chicken stock; 1 tablespoon dry sherry; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon light soy sauce

龍鳳鷄

Preparation info

This party dish would serve
6 to 8
easily as a main course.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

In Chinese mythology, the phoenix is a bird symbolic of feminine beauty, the dragon a symbol of male virility. When the delicate white meat of chicken breast, considered feminine, is coupled with hearty red ham, regarded as masculine, the dish is usually given, mostly by the Cantonese chefs, a fanciful name such as “Phoenix meeting Dragon in a lanterned court” to indicate that they have joined in harmony and bliss. I have simplified the name but not the bliss.

Ingredients

Asia
China
Main course

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