Steam Chicken with Ginger and Spring Onion (姜葱鸡)

Ingredients

1. Half chicken, or 2 chicken leg
2. 1-2 cm section of ginger
3. 1 stalk spring onion
4. 1 table spoon sesame oil
5. 1 table spoon light soya sauce
6. 2 table spoon Chinese wine hua tiao (花雕)
7. ½ teaspoon salt for seasoning
8. 1 table spoon salt for washing.

Method

1. Remove skin of ginger, cut into slices. Wash spring onion and cut into 10 cm sections.
2. Wash chicken, rub with a 1 table spoon salt for a few minutes and rinse away all the salt.
3. Cut the chicken into chucks.
4. Season chicken with salt, soya sauce, sesame oil and Chinese wine, and if time permits leave it aside for 1 hour or longer.
5. Lay chicken on steaming plate, lay the ginger slices and spring onion on top.  Steam over high heat for 15 mins.
6. Serve hot.