home cooked eats

My sis likes to cook pumpkin for some time now. The dish is quite delectable and is steamed, so it's less sinful than fried stuffs!


Here are some simple steps to cook a nice steamed pumpkin chicken. Oops, forgot to mention the ingredients but then WYSIWYG! Here goes:

1. pumpkin
2. chicken meat
3. tomato
4. salt, sugar
5. flour
6. chinese rice wine
7. sesame oil (little bit)
8. ginger
9. oyster sauce
10. plum

Preparation:

1. Wash everything.

2. Shred some ginger.

3. Cut the pumpkin and tomato into chunks and marinate with some salt. Set aside.



4. cut chicken into chunks



5. Pour some oyster sauce. Mix ginger on chicken and drizzle some sesame oil over the chicken




6. Pour little bit of chinese rice wine



7. Add a little salt, a little sugar



8. Sprinkle some corn flour



9. If you want nicer color, add some dark soy sauce as well

10. Mix well



11. Squeeze and break plum over the chicken




use this kind of plum

12. Pack everything and leave inside the fridge for few hours.




Cooking:

1. Place the pumpkin and tomato chunks on the bottom of the dish, and chicken meat on top

2. Steam for about 10-15 mins

3. Garnish with parsley


End result should look like this:






Have fun cooking!