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Pearl Chicken Recipe

This Cantonese-inspired confinement dish helps in retraction of uterus and speeds up recovery of body strength. It also increases chances for the next pregnancy. Excessive usage of sesame oil is essential for confinement, because it treats neuralgia and rheumatism, promotes blood circulation and improves body strength.

Ingredients :Traditional Chinese Cantonese Confinement Food Recipe - Cantonese Pearl Chicken

  • 1 chicken whole leg

  • 200g old ginger

  • 100g pearl grass

  • 3 tbsp sesame oil

    Seasoning :

  • 1 bowl rice wine

  • 1 tbsp soy sauce

Cooking Ingredients for Pearl Chicken

 

Method :

  1. Cut chicken into pieces, wash and chop ginger with skin intact. Juliennes pearl grass and dry under the sun, set aside. (picture 2-3)

  2. Heat sesame oil, sauté ginger until fragrant, add in meat, pearl grass and wine, cover with lid and boil with low heat until dry up. (picture 4-6)

  3. Season with soy sauce and the dish is ready to be served.

How To Make Pearl Chicken - Recipe & Step-By-Step Instructions

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