Yellow Glutinous Rice Wine Chicken
Yellow Glutinous Rice Wine Chicken (黄酒鸡）is a typical confinement dish for women during the first 30 days of their confinement period. Yellow Rice Wine Chicken is believed to be beneficial to women during the confinement period because it helps in expelling wind, helping blood circulation, keeping the body warm, and eventually helping the body to recover fast. It is traditionally believed that Chinese rice wine chicken can speed up womb recovery and good for body recuperation.
Servings: 3 people
Ingredients
- 700 gram chicken pieces
- 15 gram wood ear soaked and julienned
- 15 gram dried mushroom soaked and julienned
- 60 gram old ginger
- 250 ml yellow glutinous rice wine
- 75 ml water
- 1 1/2 tbsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tbsp salt
Instructions
- Heat up the wok with sesame oil. Add old ginger, stir fry it until lightly golden and fragrant.
- Add the wood ear and dried mushrooms, stir fry for 2 minutes. Add chicken pieces, cook for 5 minutes until the chicken pieces are lightly brown.
- Then add in yellow glutinous rice wine, bring to a boil.
- Turn the heat low after the boil, cover the lid and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir it occasionally.
- Serve immediately.
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Notes
- Please be careful when you pour in the rice wine and close the lid. The fire may burn the lid of the pot/wok if it is boiling because the alcohol vapour is surrounding the pot/wok. If it happens, turn off the fire and put a wet towel on the lid. After that, turn the fire on again.
