Steamed chicken probably needs to be steamed for about 20 minutes.

If the chicken is small, under three pounds, then usually about 20 minutes of steaming after the water boils is sufficient. If the chicken is heavier, above three pounds, then steaming for about 30 minutes is a more appropriate time. Or if you are not steaming the whole chicken, but the chicken thighs or wings, chicken breasts, then after the water boils, steaming for about ten to fifteen minutes is OK.

In fact, no matter whether you steam the whole chicken, or chicken pieces, steam time should not be too long, otherwise the steamed chicken meat will be very old, eat up the taste is not good. Or there are a lot of people in doing steamed chicken are especially like to use the pressure cooker, with the pressure cooker to do out of the steamed chicken more flavorful and delicious, usually with the pressure cooker steam 16 minutes can be.

Tips for cooking chicken:

1, before steaming chicken pieces need to clean up the blood on the surface of the chicken, you can use hot water to blanch the chicken pieces first. As we all know, killing the chicken will easily lead to the surface of the chicken block remains a lot of chicken skin and blood and so on. If this time do not clean, and directly take the past into the dish to eat, then not only the fishy flavor is very heavy, but also will make eat into a lot of harmful substances, it is likely to diarrhea and so on. So be sure to clean the surface of the chicken pieces in advance.

2, do steamed chicken pieces need to be marinated in advance for a period of time chicken pieces, marinating time is generally about an hour, marinating time is too short, it will lead to chicken pieces are not flavorful, but marinating time is too long is not good, it will also affect the texture of the chicken pieces made, so generally about an hour. There is also steamed chicken pieces, you can add some tea oil in the chicken, because smearing a layer of tea oil, can make the chicken pieces taste better. You can use this method when making chicken nuggets.