Authentic Steamboat Chicken needs to be blanched. Authentic steamer chicken in the production process, the chicken is required to blanch. The purpose of blanching is to remove the blood foam and broken bones, which can make the chicken cleaner and make the chicken taste better. Then put the blanched chicken into the steamer, add a few slices of ginger and small green onions, and finally steam the chicken for 3-4 hours. Steamboat Chicken is a specialty dish of Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, belonging to the Yunnan cuisine family; it is named because the dish is steamed in a steamer, and its main ingredient is chicken, and the main cooking process is steaming, which has the effect of replenishing the deficiency and nourishing the body, replenishing the blood, and strengthening the spleen and appetizing the stomach. Steamboat chicken because of its nutritious popular among the masses. Steamboat chicken practice is a flagon chicken after washing and then cut into small pieces, and ginger, salt, green onions, fruits together into the steamer to cover, the steamer is placed in a pot full of water on top of the pot, with gauze will be blocked on the gap, so as to avoid leakage of steam, and then put on the fire to cook. When the water in the saucepan boils, the steam will gradually steam the chicken through the nozzle in the middle of the saucepan (usually takes 3 to 4 hours). As the soup is steam condensed, the fresh flavor of the chicken in the process of steaming less loss, so basically maintain the original flavor of the chicken.