White cut chicken
 White cut chicken with Shanghai bok choy and broth (usually served with "ginger spring onion dip", a tangy Chinese dip) | |
| Course | Main dishes |
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| Place of origin | China |
| Region or state | Hong Kong, Guangdong, Fujian |
| Main ingredients | Chicken, ginger, scallion, cilantro |
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| Traditional Chinese | 白切雞 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 白切鸡 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | baahk chit gāi | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | báiqiējī | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | white cut chicken | ||||||||||||||||||||
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White cut chicken or white sliced chicken is a type of siu mei.[1] Unlike most other meats in the siu mei category, this particular dish is not roasted. The dish is common to the cultures of Southern China, including Guangdong, Fujian and Hong Kong.[1][2]
Preparation
The chicken is salt marinated and is cooked in its entirety in hot water or chicken broth with ginger. Other variations season the cooking liquid with additional ingredients, such as the white part of the green onion, cilantro stems or star anise. When the water starts to boil, the heat is turned off, allowing the chicken to cook in the residual heat for around 30 minutes. The chicken's skin will remain light-coloured, nearly white and the meat will be quite tender, moist, and flavourful. The dish can be served "rare" in which the meat is cooked thoroughly but a pinkish dark red blood is secreted from the bones. This is a more traditional version of white cut chicken that is seldom served in Chinese restaurants anymore. The chicken is usually cooled before cutting into pieces.
The chicken is served in pieces, with the skin and bone, sometimes garnished with cilantro, leeks and/or a slice of ginger. It is usually accompanied by a condiment called Geung yung (Chinese: 薑蓉; pinyin: jīang rōng; Cantonese Yale: gēung yùng) made by combining finely minced ginger, green onion, salt and hot oil. Additional dips can be spicy mustard, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce or chili pepper sauce.
Ginger and scallion oil condiment
Dry version
See also
References
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- 1 2 Xinhuanet.com. "Xinhuanet.com." 白切雞. Retrieved on 2008-11-19.
- ↑ 39World. "39World.com." 白切雞. Source mention 闽南, which is basically Minnan/Fujian. Retrieved on 2008-11-19.