Marinated Chicken with Shitake Mushrooms (serves 3 people)
Preparation Time: 10mins (plus ½ hour or more for marinating)
Cooking Time: 10mins
Ingredients:
2 Large Organic Chicken breasts – Skinless (approx. 300g)
150g Fresh Shitake Mushrooms
1g Salt
1 tbsp Soy Sauce
1tbsp Dark Soy sauce
Black pepper
½ tbsp Vodka or Chinese Rice Wine (optional)
1tsp Sugar
5g Potato starch/Corn flour
2tbsp Corn oil/Sunflower oil
(1 tsp sesame oil to add at the end.)
Instructions:
- Slice the chicken breasts and shitake mushrooms into thin strips.
- Excluding the sesame oil (which is added later) mix all of the other ingredients together to create a sauce.
- Add the chicken and the mushrooms. Marinate for ½ hour minimum (overnight in the refrigerator is better).
- Spread over a dish and fully steam for 5mins ensuring the mixture is only one layer thick to allow even and quicker cooking.
- Once cooked finely chop some spring onions and coriander. Sprinkle over the top with the sesame oil.
Serve with: Rice, potatoes or other vegetables. Boiled or steamed salad is also good.
Good For:
Nourishing spleen.
Suits all types of conditions especially those with deficiency syndromes. Good for people with allergies (such as hay fever) as the ingredients are very mild.
Chicken and mushrooms are neutral so in terms of Chinese medicine they are neither hot nor cold.
