How to make steamed chicken with lemongrass salt, succulent and delicious chicken meat

Prepare
30 Minutes Processing
60 Minutes For
3-4 people

Steamed chicken with lemongrass salt is a “steamed without water” dish that helps chicken keep its flavor intact. Chicken after cooked is soft, fragrant, succulent. In addition to the characteristic aroma of chicken, the faint aroma of lemongrass also makes you irresistible. Steamed chicken with lemongrass salt and lemongrass salt with a cup of chili and lemon salt is really hard to resist.

Prepare ingredients for steamed chicken with salt

• Ready-made whole chicken (about 1.5 kg)
• 500g granulated salt
• Lemongrass, chili, red onion, lime leaves, garlic, ginger, laksa leaves
• Spices: Sugar, seasoning, fish sauce, ground pepper, monosodium glutamate

Good tip:
– You should choose to buy bamboo chicken or chicken, weighing about 1.5kg will have more juicy, but not as friable as industrial chicken.
– Buy ready-made chicken, you need to choose chicken with light yellow skin, elastic meat, outside without bruising or with different colors, odors, and viscous flow.
– For raw chickens, you should choose chickens with bright eyes, soft feathers, avoid buying chickens with cloudy eyes, ruffled feathers, slow moving because they are sick chickens.

Prepare ingredients for steamed chicken with salt

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Instructions on how to make steamed chicken with lemongrass salt

Step 1Preliminary chicken meat

To save more time, you should buy ready-made chicken, when you buy it, you clean it inside and out.

To reduce the fishy smell, you should use granulated salt to rub the outside and then rinse with clean water several times to reduce the viscosity, then rinse and dry.

Hot Tip: In addition to rubbing granulated salt to remove the fishy smell, you can rub and soak the chicken for 3-5 minutes in a mixture of salt, vinegar or salt and lemon juice.

Preliminary chicken meat

Step 2Prepare other ingredients

Lemongrass, you cut off the root, wash it clean, and then use 2 trees to cut into short pieces about 1 finger and smash, the remaining 2 lemongrass trees are finely chopped.

Peel the purple onion, use 2 chopped bulbs, 2 sliced bulbs . Ginger, you scrape clean, cut into fibers. Meanwhile, chili is peeled, washed, used 1 chopped fruit, 1 sliced fruit.

You pick up old, damaged leaves, wash and dry . Take 5 lemon leaves , wash and cut into small pieces. You use 1 lemon to squeeze the juice and then cut the peel into small pieces.

Prepare other ingredients

Step 3Marinated chicken

When the chicken is drained, you Marinate chicken with 1/2 tbsp sugar, 1 tsp ground pepper, 1/2 tbsp seasoning, 1/2 tbsp fish sauce and red onion, chili, lemongrass, minced, then mix well.

You proceed to cut a few lines on the chicken, then rub the mixture on the chicken body to marinate for about 30 minutes.

Marinated chicken

Step 4Steam the chicken

First, you put about 400g of granulated salt into the pot to roast for about 6-7 minutes and then put the lemongrass tail on top.

Next, put the chicken in the pot, add laksa leaves, red onion, sliced chili, ginger and sliced lemon zest and steam for about 30 minutes on medium heat.

Steam the chicken

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Step 5Make dipping sauce

You put in the mortar 1/2 tablespoon of granulated salt, 1/2 teaspoon of MSG, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of ground pepper, minced chili, lemon leaves and lightly pound for the spices to be mixed well. Then add lemon juice and stir again.

Make dipping sauce

Step 6Finished product

The steamed chicken is hot, the golden chicken skin looks very attractive. Serve this chicken dish with a cup of salt just finished.

Finished product

Enjoy

Steamed chicken with salt is just fragrant, the chicken is soft and succulent, dipping with salt and lemon chili is nothing better. With this dish, you should not chop the chicken but tear the chicken to fully enjoy the taste of each sweet and fragrant meat on the tip of your tongue.

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Enjoy steamed chicken with salt and lemongrass

Note when making steamed chicken with lemongrass salt

For steamed chicken with lemongrass salt, you absolutely do not add water to steam. Refined salt or iodized salt should not be used to replace granulated salt, because these salts will soak into the chicken, making the chicken salty and unappetizing.

Note when making steamed chicken with lemongrass salt

Do not hesitate any longer, hurry to the nearest Cfis.edu.vn store, choose 1 chicken to make this steamed chicken with lemongrass salt for the whole family. In addition, you can refer to how to make simple salted pepper chicken at home.

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