To make this dish, you can choose chicken legs, chicken wings, or chicken pieces according to personal preferences, cordyceps flowers are also more common in the market, you can buy them for a few dollars, match these two things, and then add some shiitake mushrooms and dried dates, the steamed chicken is fragrant, the taste is fragrant and tender, salty and sweet, it can be said that it is not trouble-free, and there is no smoke disturbance of kitchen fumes, nourishing is not greasy, it is too suitable to eat in winter, adults and children at home like it, and share the practice of this dish with everyone.
How to make steamed chicken wings with Cordyceps flowers
Ingredients: 500 grams of chicken wings, 150 grams of fresh cordyceps flowers, 50 grams of shiitake mushrooms, 10 grams of dried dates.
Ingredients: 3 grams of ginger, 1 gram of chives, 10 grams of soy sauce, 1 gram of sesame oil, 1 gram of sugar, a little salt.
In the first step, soak the chicken wing root in cold water for half an hour, soak out the blood water in it and then clean it, drain the water and then use a knife to vertically cut the wing root, evenly draw 2 to 3 knives, until the chicken bone, when steaming, it is better to steam and steam thoroughly.
In the second step, wash and drain the cordyceps flowers. Remove the stems of the mushrooms, wash the caps and squeeze out the water, and cut them in half into mushroom pieces. Wash the dried jujube and use a knife to make two cuts on it, so that it is easy to steam it until soft. Wash the ginger and chives separately, cut the ginger slices and chop the green onions.
The third step is to put the processed chicken wing roots, from grass flowers, mushroom pieces, dried dates, and ginger slices into a bowl together, add extremely fresh soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and salt to stir evenly, and let it marinate for 15 minutes, so that the ingredients can better absorb the flavor.
The fourth step, add an appropriate amount of water to the steamer and boil over high heat, first put the marinated ingredients into a deep-bottomed plate, wait for the pot to boil, put the deep plate into the steaming drawer, cover and steam over high heat for 15 to 20 minutes, when steaming, a part of the soup will come out, it is best to use a deep dish to load the ingredients to prevent the soup from overflowing.
Step 5: When all the ingredients are steamed and flavored, turn off the heat, take out the steamed dishes, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and the dish is ready.
Whether you choose chicken wings, chicken or chicken thighs to make this dish, you must first soak it in cold water to soak it out, which not only cleans it cleanly, but also removes the fishy smell of the chicken, and the taste will be very tender when steamed.
Fresh cordyceps flowers will smell faintly scented, and bad cordyceps flowers will obviously smell pungent smell, so you should smell them carefully when buying.
In the process of steaming this dish, a lot of water will enter the dish, and the amount of flavor and salt should be controlled well to prevent the taste from being light or salty.