Steeped Chicken

Name: Steeped Chicken
Yield: 6 Serves
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 3 green stalks spring onion; 20 ml ginger juice; 3 g sandy ginger (ask at an Asian grocer); 20 ml Shao Hsing rice wine; 1 slice ginger (the size of a 50 cent coin); 1.6 kg fresh free-range chicken; 5 ml spring onion juice; 30 g salt; 4 L plain chicken stock

Preparation info

6
Serves

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cheong Liew

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

About

The test at our family table for perfect freshness, umami savouriness and texture is a simple steeped chicken, or steamed fish with spring onion and ginger. Both dishes demand impeccable fresh ingredients and cooking perfection.

Ingredients

1.6 kg fresh free-range chicken
1 slice ginger (the size of a 50 cent coin)
3

Asia
Oceania
China
Australia
Main course
Spring

Method

Clean innards from the cavity of the chicken. Put sliced ginger and spring onions in the cavity.

Rub the marinade of ginger, ginger juice, spring onion juice, salt and Shao Hsing rice wine inside and outside the chicken, and let it marinate for two hours. ‘I believe the secret addition here is a pinch of powdered sandy ginger, which has a more galangal-like zing than or