Steam-pot chicken-China's tongue

Steam-pot chicken is a characteristic dish in Yunnan Province, which has a long history and has been long renowned. It is named by steaming chicken with ceramic steam-boiler of Jianshui in Yunnan Province. It not only can be used to treat guests at any size of dinners, but also used for food therapy, nourishing and home dinner. The chicken steamed with steam-pot is original and delicious. The juice drained is a little distilled water, which is clear, transparent and fragrant. The chicken tastes good and tender. Because of its less nutrition constituent loss, it owns a reputation of cultivating healthy atmosphere.

Ingredient:
1 steam-boiler
a 2000g chicken
15g green onion
7.5g salt
0.5g gourmet powder
15g ginger

Directions:
1. Choose a fat hen(capon is ok), slaughter it and remove the chicken feather. Then Paunch it and cut into square pieces. Slice ginger, cut the green onion into two parts and slap it with the knife blade. Scald the chicken for a while, and then pick out to clean and put into steam-pot. Boil the soup and pour into the blood water of scalded chicken before. At the same time, clear the floats on the soup. Flavor with salt and gourmet powder and pour the soup into the steam-pot to a level over the chicken. Put into green onion and sliced ginger, and then cover the pot.
2. Prepare a earthen pot with a capacity of 5kg water(put in some ham bones), place the steam-pot in the earthen pot under the precondition that pouring enough water into the earthen pot and sealing the connection area of the cover with cloth or stencil tissue paper. Then mix flour with some water to make into paste, and stick the stencil tissue paper with paste. An ordinary pot can be used if there is no earthen pot.
3. Place the earthen pot over the fire to cook for four hours until the meat and bone separate. Finally remove the green onion and ginger.

Tips:
1. The connection of steam-pot and earthen pot must be sealed to make sure no leaking.
2. Boil over big fire first so that the vapor can flow into steam-pot via the pipe, and then turn to soft fire to steam.