Steamed Chicken with Black-boned Chicken Essence
Steamed Chicken with Black-boned Chicken Essence
Every Asian household is familiar with the health benefits of chicken essence. It is the secret superfood that we drink to score straight As in examinations, ensure a healthy pregnancy, or revitalise our bodies when feeling weak or tired. Its vitality-boosting effect is suitable for everyone, regardless of age or gender, and gives chicken essence its popularity as a trusted tonic.
So, can chicken essence get any healthier than it already is? Well, apparently it can!
Hockhua’s Essence of Black-boned Chicken with Cordyceps, American Ginseng & Collagen contains numerous health benefits in just one bottle! Each ingredient contributes its own individual health benefit to the supplement for a potent blend. Here are the benefits of each ingredient:
Black-boned chicken - high source of antioxidant, good for muscles and nervous system
Cordyceps - promotes healthy lungs and kidneys, reduces cough and phlegm
Ginseng - improves stamina, promotes healthy spleen and lungs, aids blood formation and relaxation
Collagen - improves skin health, promotes health nails and hair growth
Hockhua’s Essence of Black-boned Chicken with Cordyceps, American Ginseng & Collagen
Not only can you drink it on its own, the Black-boned Chicken Essence can also be added into your cooking. Our home cook, Jasmine Ong, has beautifully integrated the Black-boned Chicken Essence into her steamed chicken, elevating it into a healthy, nourishing meal, perfect after a long day at work.
Ingredients that you will need to marinate the chicken: chicken legs, Chinese mushrooms, light soy sauce, old ginger, pepper, Chinese cooking wine (hua diao jiu), sesame oil, corn starch, and Hockhua’s Black-boned Chicken Essence.
Ingredients needed for steaming: wood ear fungus, red dates, and goji berries
Garnish: Hockhua’s Black-boned Chicken Essence and coriander leaves
First to prepare the marinade, place all the chicken and marinade ingredients into a bowl and use your hands to mix and cover the chicken with the ingredients. Cover the bowl with cling wrap and set it in the fridge to marinate for at least two hours.
Hand mix to combine the chicken and marinade ingredients together
#Tip: for a quick, healthy dinner, marinate the chicken the night before so all you need to do is steam the chicken when you get home.
When you are ready to cook, place a dish into the steamer and place the wood ear fungus onto the dish.
Place the wood ear fungus in the steamer
Next, place the marinated chicken and mushrooms over the fungus.
Place the chicken and mushrooms over the wood ear fungus
Add the rest of the remaining marinade sauce as well as the red dates and goji berries. Cover with the lid and let the dish steam for 25 minutes.
Add the remaining marinade sauce, red dates and goji berries.
Cover and steam the dish for 25 minutes
Lastly, remove the dish from the steamer and enhance the flavour and nutritional value of the steamed chicken with a bottle of Hockhua’s Black-boned Chicken Essence and some coriander leaves.
Add a bottle of Black-boned Chicken essence for increased nutritional value and flavour
Garnish the dish with some coriander leaves
And there you have a delicious and nutritious dish that is extremely easy and quick to make! The chicken is really tender and has a sweetness to its flavor from the red dates and goji berries. The wood ear fungus also absorbs the marinade seasoning and gives a refreshing bite in contrast to the tenderness of the chicken.
#Tip: Put some rice to cook while steaming the chicken so that it would finish cooking around the same time the chicken is done and your dinner is ready!
Get the recipe here below!
Steamed Chicken with Black-boned Chicken Essence
Servings2-3 people
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Ingredients
Chicken and marinade
2 chicken legschopped into bite-sized pieces
3pcs dried chinese mushroomssoaked and cut into thick slices
4pcs old gingerjulienned
1/2tsp pepper
1tsp light soy sauce
1tbsp chinese cooking wineaka hua diao jiu
2tbsp sesame oil
1tbsp corn starch
1bottle black-boned chicken essence
Steaming ingredients
10g wood ear fungussoaked
4pcs red datesremove seeds and slice thickly
1tbsp goji berries
Garnish
1bottle black-boned chicken essence
coriander leavesto garnish
Instructions
Marinate the chicken
Mix the marinade ingredients and coat the chicken and mushrooms. Marinate for a few hours or overnight
Steam the chicken
Place the wood ear fungus onto the dish and add the marinated chicken mixture over the fungus.
Spread red dates and goji berries on the chicken.
Steam for 25 minutes.
Garnish and serve
Remove the dish from the steamer, and add in the black-boned chicken essence.
Garnish with coriander and serve.
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