Been a while that I blog on cooking, so decide to share this dish that we had while the family was down with flu and cough recently.
Steam Chicken is a common dish that most prepare at home I guess. On lazy days, or like recently, sick days, I'll just put it to steam together with the rice in the cooker. Save time, effort and electricity.
But when the family is down w cough or getting heaty, I'll prep this with dried lily bulb instead of ginger.
Lily bulb is a good general herb to tonify the body, especially beneficial to the lung and heart. It helps to reduce cough but not suitable for those with cold base cough.
Ingredients :
Chicken pieces, marinated with soy sauce and pepper.
Dried mushroom, soak
Water from soaking the mushroom
Dried lily bulb, soak for 2hrs
Put the ingredients together, partially covered with water from soaking the mushrooms. Put to steam till chicken cook through.
No additional seasoning is added for my family consumption as we minimise our salt intake. But the taste is sufficient if the chicken has been marinated well in advance and the water from mushroom is already fragrant. Normally sesame oil is skipped too to reduce heatiness. Wolfberries can be added at the last 5mins of steaming.
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