It will take 3-4 hours. After washing 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 filled with water, and plug the gap with gauze to avoid steam leakage. Then put it on the fire to cook. 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 steam pot. The soup is condensed by steam, and the umami flavor of the chicken is less lost during steaming, so the original flavor of the chicken is basically maintained.

Steamed chicken is a famous dish in Yunnan province, belonging to Yunnan cuisine; Named after the dish was steamed in a steamer, its main ingredient is chicken, and the main cooking process is steaming, which has the effects of nourishing the body, enriching the blood, invigorating the spleen and appetizing. Steamed chicken is deeply loved by the masses because of its rich nutrition.

History and culture: As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, steamed chicken was popular in southern Yunnan. According to legend, it was invented by Yang Li, the chef of Fudeju in Lin 'an Prefecture (now Jianshui County). That year, the emperor inspected Jian 'an, and the magistrate issued a notice asking for delicacies to please the son of heaven, and the winner was rewarded with 520 taels of silver. Yang Li's family was poor and his mother was seriously ill. In order to get rich rewards, he combined the local methods of eating hot pot and steaming steamed bread, created a steamer, and climbed to the top of the swallow cave to collect bird's nest regardless of his life, hoping to be a bird's nest steamer chicken.

Unexpectedly, the boiler was stolen, and Yang Li was asked about the crime of deceiving the monarch and wanted to cut it. Fortunately, the emperor asked the truth to avoid the death of Yang Li and renamed Fudeju "Yang Li Steamed Chicken". From then on, the steamer chicken became famous and became a famous dish in central Yunnan. At that time, the practice of steaming chicken was simple, but it tasted mellow.