The receipe of this dish was modified from the original chicken and mushroom chinese dish. It tastes really good, so please do try to cook this dish if you like chinese food.


Caption: herbal chinese mushroom

Initially, we called this as the chicken mushroom but since I uses some chinese herbs for the sauce instead of plain water, this chinese dish is known as the herbal chicken mushroom.

Ingredient list: dice chicken, some black mushroom, chopped garlic, onion, ginger, salted chopped carrots (optional), LKK oyster sauce, salt, LKK chicken marinade, sugar, shaohsing rice wine, sesame oil, pepper (optional), grounded white pepper, and corn starch.

Herbal list: dried longan, wolfberry, dried dates, some dried almond

Instruction:

Before cooking this dish, make sure you wash and soak the black mushroom into cold water for a night (or soak into warm water for few hours) to make it softer.

Buy any chicken that you like (i.e. chicken with bone, dice chicken, drumstick, tight etc.), slice them as you wish and marinade it with some sesame oil, some LKK chicken marinade and ground white pepper. I would suggest you to keep the portion of marinaded chicken into the fridge for couple of hours or a day.

Before cooking the dish, first boil some water with the chicken bones. You need to add in some msg (monosodium glutamate or Ajinomoto) to make the soup taste better. Then, place those herbals into the boiled water, and continue boiling the soup for approximate 30 minutes. You only need a small amount of of herbal soup to replace it as the sauce of this dish so need not boil a bowl of herbal soup.

While boiling the soup, on the other hand, you need a frying pan in the next stove. Put some oil into the frying pan and heat it. Then, fill the frying pan with some chopped garlic, onion and ginger and cook it till it turn brownish in colour. Remember, do not overcook the garlics/onion/ginger. Then, remove the mushroom from the bowl and slice each mushroom into 3.

Put the sliced chicken into the frying pan and cook it well. When the meat is around 70% cooked, place those mushrooms into the frying pan and cook it together with the chicken.


Caption: the chinese dish

Transfer the soup boiled (only the soup) with the herbs into the frying pan. Stir everything in the frying pan well and cover the frying pan with a pan cover for 5 minutes. This is to fully heat the uncooked portion of the chicken if not cooked well yet. Remove the cover and add some shaohsing rice wine, LKK oyster sauce and some LKK soy sauce, and stir them well with the chicken. Finally, add some corn starch to make the sauce starchy.

The herbal chicken and mushroom dish is ready to be served. Try it and let me know how it tastes for you :)