Steamed chicken with shiitake mushrooms, how to make shiitake mushrooms not very salty?

Steamed chicken with mushrooms has a fresh taste and tastes like a strong chicken flavor and rich mushroom flavor, followed by steamed chicken meat is smooth and tender, tastes like the best, and in the production of this dish is also very delicate . Many friends to make this dish can often encounter steamed mushrooms are very salty, which leads to the flavor of the mushrooms completely covered by the salty flavor, the mushrooms eat up bad taste, not fragrant enough, and such a problem is mainly the marinade process is wrong, how to do this dish steamed out of the mushrooms steamed chicken is not salty? How to do more delicious? Detailed below share.

Main ingredient: a hen

Accessories: ginger, garlic, ginger, scallions, dates, wolfberries, dried mushrooms

Seasoning: salt, oyster sauce, soy sauce, rice wine, cooking oil, cornstarch

Steps~

Step ①Handling hen

Making this dish pick about 180 days of hen, fresh chicken slaughter processing clean, the chicken excess fat oil removed, the neck of the chicken has more lymph, the lymph one by one to remove, flush The first thing you need to do is to get rid of all the blood and water, and then cut it into even pieces and set it aside.

Step ② cut with material

Sand ginger, garlic, ginger minced spare, the shallot head cut out with the head of the material spare, green onion chopped spare, jujubes clean and remove the nucleus, and then the jujubes cut a small piece of spare, goji berries with a little water soaked in soft spare, mushrooms clean and soaked with a little water spare.

? Step ③ chicken marinade

Chicken in the marinade before draining excess water, and then pour the chicken into a large plate, and then add a little salt, oyster sauce, soy sauce, cornstarch, a little rice wine, cooking oil, add the head of the material ginger, garlic, white onion, sand ginger, goji berries, red dates, shiitake mushrooms soaked softly, soak shiitake mushrooms in water of about 250g poured into the chicken, and then stirred Mix well until the water is completely absorbed by the chicken, then add a little cornstarch and cooking oil and mix until the chicken is gelatinous, marinate for 30 minutes, then cut the soaked mushrooms into small pieces and add them to the chicken and mix well

? Step ④ chicken steamed

Add the marinated chicken to a large plate, then boil the water in the steamer pot, put the chicken into the steamer pot to steam, high heat steaming for 25 minutes, 25 minutes after the removal, and then sprinkle with a little chopped green onion garnish, so that a delicious steamed chicken with mushrooms on the production of completed.

Summary of the content of the "doubts and answers" ① in the marinade of the chicken why add soaked mushrooms in the water marinade?

Answer: After a long time of soaking the mushrooms, part of the flavor of the mushrooms has been blended in the water, adding a small amount of water in the marinade of the chicken can make the chicken meat more tender, and adding the mushrooms soaked out of the mushroom water instead of water to make the flavor more fragrant, so that the chicken mushroom flavor is more intense.

② Why do I make this dish mushroom is very salty? The steamed mushrooms will not be salty.

3) Why do I need to stir the chicken while marinating until it becomes gelatinous?

Answer: When marinating the chicken, in order to make the chicken more tender and flavorful, add the soaked mushrooms after the water marinade, in the marinade chicken to completely absorb the water so that the steamed chicken will be tender, so the chicken in the mixing must be stirred until gelatinous, so that a layer of starch will be formed on the surface of the chicken, the chicken is wrapped in starch, the chicken will not be able to discharge the absorbed water. The water absorbed into the chicken will not be discharged, if the surface of the chicken is not gelatinous, then the chicken in the marinade does not take long for the water to be discharged, so that the chicken's flavor is not strong enough, the texture is not tender enough.

Making Tips

①Making Mushroom Steamed ChickenChicken pieces don't cut too big pieces, about 2.5cm square is easier to taste, and it's easier to cook when steaming.

② Make this dish must choose tender chicken, so that the chicken will eat more tender.

③ Add red dates and wolfberries when marinating the chicken in order to make the chicken taste better and make the steamed chicken taste sweeter.

④? When marinating chicken, mushrooms must be added last, not at the same time as the flavor, otherwise the mushrooms are very salty.

⑤? When making this dish, the chicken should be laid flat on the plate, not stacked on top of each other, and the chicken should not be steamed for too long, otherwise the chicken texture will deteriorate.