Steam pot chicken was circulated among the people in southern Yunnan as early as 2000 years ago. Jianshui produces a unique ceramic steamer called "steamer", which is specially used for steaming food.
Steamed chicken is a specialty of Yunnan, named after being steamed in a steamer. The main ingredient is chicken, and the main cooking process is steaming. Steamed chicken is deeply loved by the masses because of its rich nutrition.
The method of steaming chicken is to clean the pheasant, cut it into small pieces, put it in a steamer with ginger, salt, onion and tsaoko, cover it, put the steamer on a soup pot with water, block the gap with gauze to avoid steam leakage, and then cook it on the fire. After the water in the soup pot is boiled, the steam will gradually steam the chicken through the steam nozzle in the middle of the steamer (usually it takes 3 ~ 4 hours). Because the soup is condensed by steam, the umami flavor of the chicken is less lost in the steaming process, so the original flavor of the chicken is basically maintained.