Steamed Chicken with Black-boned Chicken Essence

Steamed Chicken with Black-boned Chicken Essence

Every Asian household is familiar with the health benefits of chicken essence. It is the secret superfood that we drink to score straight As in examinations, ensure a healthy pregnancy, or revitalise our bodies when feeling weak or tired. Its vitality-boosting effect is suitable for everyone, regardless of age or gender, and gives chicken essence its popularity as a trusted tonic.

So, can chicken essence get any healthier than it already is? Well, apparently it can!

Hockhua’s Essence of Black-boned Chicken with Cordyceps, American Ginseng & Collagen contains numerous health benefits in just one bottle! Each ingredient contributes its own individual health benefit to the supplement for a potent blend. Here are the benefits of each ingredient:

• Black-boned chicken - high source of antioxidant, good for muscles and nervous system
• Cordyceps - promotes healthy lungs and kidneys, reduces cough and phlegm
• Ginseng - improves stamina, promotes healthy spleen and lungs, aids blood formation and relaxation
• Collagen - improves skin health, promotes health nails and hair growth

Hockhua’s Essence of Black-boned Chicken with Cordyceps, American Ginseng & Collagen

Not only can you drink it on its own, the Black-boned Chicken Essence can also be added into your cooking. Our home cook, Jasmine Ong, has beautifully integrated the Black-boned Chicken Essence into her steamed chicken, elevating it into a healthy, nourishing meal, perfect after a long day at work.

Ingredients that you will need to marinate the chicken: chicken legs, Chinese mushrooms, light soy sauce, old ginger, pepper, Chinese cooking wine (hua diao jiu), sesame oil, corn starch, and Hockhua’s Black-boned Chicken Essence.

Ingredients needed for steaming: wood ear fungus, red dates, and goji berries

Garnish: Hockhua’s Black-boned Chicken Essence and coriander leaves

First to prepare the marinade, place all the chicken and marinade ingredients into a bowl and use your hands to mix and cover the chicken with the ingredients. Cover the bowl with cling wrap and set it in the fridge to marinate for at least two hours.

Hand mix to combine the chicken and marinade ingredients together

#Tip: for a quick, healthy dinner, marinate the chicken the night before so all you need to do is steam the chicken when you get home.

When you are ready to cook, place a dish into the steamer and place the wood ear fungus onto the dish.

Place the wood ear fungus in the steamer

Next, place the marinated chicken and mushrooms over the fungus.

Place the chicken and mushrooms over the wood ear fungus

Add the rest of the remaining marinade sauce as well as the red dates and goji berries. Cover with the lid and let the dish steam for 25 minutes.

Add the remaining marinade sauce, red dates and goji berries.

Cover and steam the dish for 25 minutes

Lastly, remove the dish from the steamer and enhance the flavour and nutritional value of the steamed chicken with a bottle of Hockhua’s Black-boned Chicken Essence and some coriander leaves.

Add a bottle of Black-boned Chicken essence for increased nutritional value and flavour

Garnish the dish with some coriander leaves

And there you have a delicious and nutritious dish that is extremely easy and quick to make! The chicken is really tender and has a sweetness to its flavor from the red dates and goji berries. The wood ear fungus also absorbs the marinade seasoning and gives a refreshing bite in contrast to the tenderness of the chicken.

#Tip: Put some rice to cook while steaming the chicken so that it would finish cooking around the same time the chicken is done and your dinner is ready!

Get the recipe here below!