Friday, July 19, 2013

CHINESE DIM SUM: This is a dim sum favourite which is more filling than the rest of the usual offerings. Hope you'll enjoy making it at home.


STEAMED GLUTINOUS RICE PACKAGES 糯米雞:

 

 

 

 

10 oz. glutinous rice                                                   

1/2 tsp. salt
                                                              
5 pieces of large lotus leaves

filling:

    5 pieces of chicken meat or chicken wings, middle portion
    5 each dried scallops, soaked and dried mushrooms, soaked
    2 oz. bamboo shoots, blanched and sliced
    2 ½ links Chinese sausage
    5 oz. pork, diced

seasoning:

    1 tsp. each salt & sugar
    2 tsp. each oyster-flavoured sauce, light soy sauce & rice wine                             
    dash white pepper

 ½ tsp. tapioca starch mixed with 1 tsp. water

 

 

 

Soak glutinous rice in water to cover for several hours. Drain into a colander. Pour large amount of boiling water over rice once; then repeat procedure one more time. Line a large bamboo steamer with a clean muslin or cheese cloth and put glutinous rice on top. Sprinkle salt over the rice. Fit steamer over a large pot of boiling water; cover steamer and cook rice over high heat for 30 minutes.

 

Soak lotus leaves in boiling water. Drain, wash and dry well. Spread them out, vein-side down, on clean work surface. 

 

Split up dry scallop threads. Cut sausages into halves and mushroom caps into large pieces and reserve soaking liquid. Season chicken and pork together with ½ of seasoning ingredients and marinate 20-30 minutes. Put all filling ingredients into a large bowl. Mix rest of seasoning with ½ cup of mushroom soaking liquid in a small saucepan. Bring it to boil; then add in starch solution. Continue cooking, stirring continuously, until sauce is thickened. Add sauce into filling ingredients and mix well.

 

Divide rice and filling into 5 portions. Put a layer of rice on each of the lotus leaves, cover that with a portion of the filling; then top it with another layer of rice. Fold lotus leaf over to wrap up into a square package. Put packages of dumpling into 2 large bamboo steamers and stack steams over the rim of a large saucepan of boiling water. Cover steamers with a lid and cook over high heat for 15 minutes. Serve hot. 

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