Palace chicken
- Preparation time: 30 minutes
- Cook time: 50 minutes
This is a rather complicated recipe but the outcome is all worth it.
Ingredients
- 1 Pullet - 3 pounds
- 1 Pound crab meat
- ½ Pound ground meat
- 3 Tbsp shredded mushroom
- 2 Tbsp shredded cabbage
- 2 Tbsp sliced carrot
- 1 Tsp of fish sauce
- 1 Tsp of spice
- ½ Tsp of pepper
- Cooking oil
Preparation
- Wash clean the pullet, take out its bones
- Wash crab, steam well, separate its meat, stir fry the meat
- Add fish sauce, spice, pepper to the pullet, then put ground meat, crab meat, mushroom and carrot into the inner, roll over the pullet
- Steam for 30 minutes, take out to be cool, then fry until it is yellow
Serving suggestion: serve hot with vermicelli and fish sauce or cooked rice
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