Steamed Chicken in a Cloth Bag

Steamed Chicken in a Cloth Bag

　　1. Main ingredient: one fresh chicken; ingredients: ten eggs, one liang of shiitake mushrooms, half a liang of daylily, one liang of lotus seeds; two liang of glutinous rice wine, two qian of five-spice powder, one liang of soy sauce, a pinch of MSG.

　　2. Preparation: Remove and clean the internal organs of the fresh chicken. Place the soy sauce, sweet wine, five-spice powder (wrapped in cloth), and a little MSG inside the chicken cavity. Then sew up the chicken belly, steam it until about 60% cooked, then place it in an earthenware pot to braise in water until fully tender. Meanwhile, add shiitake mushrooms, daylily, white fungus, and lotus seeds, and simmer for another 20 minutes.

　　3. Efficacy: Delicious and sweet in flavor.

　　4. White fungus nourishes yin and moistens lungs; lotus seeds strengthen the spleen, nourish the heart, and consolidate essence.