Cooking pomegranate chicken is a famous dish with unique characteristics of The Chaoshan region of Guangdong Province, which has a history of decades. It resembles a flowering pomegranate, and the main ingredient is chicken, which is steamed to form its name. Traditionally, chicken skin or breast is used to make skin, and innovators must use fried eggs. Although this change is more convenient to do, it also has characteristics. But it is much inferior to the traditional Chaoshan flavor. The improved "pomegranate chicken" is also a Taiwanese dish that has existed since ancient times.
Production materials
Ingredients: 1 chicken breast, 6 shiitake mushrooms, 2 hot pot shoots, 1/2 carrot, 1 celery, 3 eggs
Ingredients: 5 spring onions, 1 teaspoon starch
Seasoning: 1 tbsp sesame oil, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar, ground black pepper to taste
Preparation method
1. Chop and mix the carrots, celery, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots and chicken;
2. Add a little ground black pepper;
3. Add the appropriate amount of sugar and salt;
4. Add 1/2 tbsp sesame oil;
5. Use chopsticks to stir in one direction until it is strong, and set aside as a filling;
6. Whisk the eggs evenly, add a little starch, and sift twice;
7. Pour a little egg mixture into a frying pan, shake well and fry over low heat to form a thin egg skin;
8. Cut 4 slices of egg skin, take one slice and wrap it in the right amount of filling, tie the mouth with blanched soft green onion leaves, drain the dish, steam for about 10 minutes, add starch and water and remaining sesame oil to heat and mix into a sauce, drizzle on the pomegranate chicken.
"Cooking pomegranate chicken" is a famous dish with Chaoshan flavor, which has a history of decades. It resembles a flowering pomegranate, and the main ingredient is chicken, which is steamed to form its name. Traditionally, chicken skin or breast was used to skin chicken skin, while innovators switched to fried egg slices. Although this change is more convenient to do, it also has characteristics. But it is much inferior to the traditional Chaoshan flavor.