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Sticky Rice Eight-Treasure Chicken

Peter Chang's Sticky Rice Eight-Treasure Chicken

Randi Rom
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Course Main Dish

Ingredients
  

Ingredients for chicken

  • 1 whole chicken (about 2.5 pounds)
  • Appropriate amount of sticky rice
  • 1 piece of ginger
  • 2 stalks of green onion

Ingredients for eight-treasure:

  • 1 Chinese sausage
  • A handful of dried shiitake mushrooms
  • A handful of dried lotus seeds and peanuts
  • Some dried shrimps
  • 1/2 a carrot
  • A handful of green peas
  • 1/2 a piece of winter bamboo shoot

Seasonings:

  • Salt
  • Chicken powder
  • A bit of sugar
  • Oyster sauce
  • Cooking wine
  • Sesame oil
  • Some pepper and salt

Instructions
 

  • Soak dried shiitake mushrooms, lotus seeds, and dried shrimps in warm water in advance. Rinse the sticky rice clean and set aside.
  • When purchasing the chicken, ask the butcher not to cut it open. Start cutting from the tail end, remove the innards, and wash the chicken thoroughly.
  • Bring a sufficient amount of water to boil in a pot, blanch the chicken for 2-3 minutes (ensure both sides are blanched evenly), remove, drain the water, and set aside.
  • Crush a large piece of ginger and sections of green onion. Rub them all over the chicken to remove any gamey taste. Once slightly dry, rub pepper and salt all over the chicken evenly. Lastly, lightly rub oyster sauce all over the chicken and set aside.
  • Dice carrot, winter bamboo shoot, shiitake mushrooms, Chinese sausage, and dried shrimps. Drain the water from the sticky rice and place it in a bowl, add all diced ingredients and mix well. Sequentially add a bit of salt, cooking wine, oyster sauce, sugar, chicken powder, and sesame oil and mix well.
  • Use a spoon to stuff the Eight-Treasure mixture into the chicken’s cavity until it is about 70-80% full (leave some space as the rice will expand).
  • Secure the tail end of the chicken with white cotton thread. Steam on low heat in a pot with boiling water for 2 hours until the chicken is tender, and the Eight-Treasure mixture is cooked. Remove from heat, pour the chicken juices that have collected during steaming, and sprinkle some chopped green onions on top before serving.

Notes

Note: Eight-Treasure ingredients can be adjusted according to personal taste. For example, you may replace some with diced cured meat, diced ham, chestnuts, or salted egg yolk to make up eight kinds of ingredients.