Grab Your Chopsticks!

Preparation Time: 50 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Serves: 4

Chicken & Mushrooms

Ingredients

350g chicken breast
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp rice wine or dry sherry
2 tsp cornflour
6 chinese dried mushrooms
1 tbsp fresh ginger, finely shredded
salt and pepper
sesame oil
fresh coriander as garnish

Method

1. Cut the chicken into bite sized pieces and place in a bowl. Add the sugar, soy sauce, rice wine and cornflour. Coat the chicken with the mixture and marinate for 30 minutes.
2. Place the mushrooms in warm water and soak for 30 minutes.
3. Drain the mushrooms and pat dry with kitchen paper, remove the stems and slicy thinly.
4. Place the chicken pieces in one layer on a heat prood plate and place in a bamboo or other kind of steamer. Arrange the mushrooms and ginger on top of the chicken. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and sesame oil to taste. Steam over a high heat for 20 minutes.
5. Serve immediately garnished with coriander.

Result

A nice taste. We used shiitake mushrooms which were a bit bland. In the future I may use a different type of dried mushroom, or even fresh mushrooms.