Staying Home and Enjoying Delicious Food: Mao You Chicken Rice + Cucumber and Clams
Mao You Ji Fan + Cucumber and Clams
The aroma of Mao You brings out the sweetness of the chicken meat, the fragrance is really very rich, paired with minced ginger, you will not taste the hard texture of ginger but the aroma of ginger
Ingredients:
Chicken thigh cut into dicing 1 piece
Rice 1 cup
Cucumber 1/3 piece
Clams 6-7 pieces
Minced ginger appropriate amount
Ginger shreds appropriate amount
Mao You 2 spoonfuls
Cranberries appropriate amount
Rice wine 1 spoonful
Soy sauce 2 spoonfuls
Salt appropriate amount
White pepper appropriate amount
Water 0.9 cups
Method:
1Marinate chicken dicing with rice wine and soy sauce for 15-20 minutes
2Heat oil in a pot, sauté minced ginger until the aroma comes out, then put down the marinated chicken dicing and stir-fry until 4 minutes cooked
3Add rice and stir-fry until rice grains are evenly coated with oil, then add water (water ratio is rice 1:water 0.9, because the chicken meat itself has oil and moisture)
4Steam, first cover a little ginger shreds, then sequentially add cucumber, clams, ginger shreds, cranberries (cranberries need to be soaked in rice wine for 15 minutes to be more fragrant) into the pot
5Bring to a boil until the pot's edge is steaming, turn the heat down and cook for 10 minutes, after the time is up, turn off the heat and wait 10 minutes to complete
Small secret:
Pick good cucumber, first squeeze the cucumber body to be firm (too soft cucumber may have fiber loss affect the taste), the skin color should be dark green, the weight should be heavy, the end edge retains yellow green flower bud, such cucumber is most tender
