# Pour Over Ginger Scallion Chicken

This is a low-effort, high-reward dish featuring steamed chicken with a flavorful ginger-scallion oil sauce, perfect for a comforting weeknight meal.

- Total time: 16 min
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 L-shaped organic chicken
- 4 -5 red dates
- 4 -5 ginger slices
- scallion oil
- 1 ratio chopped ginger
- 1 ratio chopped scallion
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 0.5 tsp sugar
- 0.25 tsp salt
- chicken broth

## Instructions

1. Place a steamer rack in a pot with boiling water.
2. Place a bowl on the steamer rack and arrange the chicken legs around it.
3. Add ginger slices and red dates to the bowl with the chicken.
4. Cover the pot with a lid and steam for 16 minutes after the water starts boiling.
5. Carefully remove the chicken and bowl from the pot.
6. Remove the chicken from the bowl, reserving the chicken broth from the bowl.
7. Shred the chicken.
8. Heat oil in a small pot and cook whole scallions until fragrant to make scallion oil.
9. Pour the hot scallion oil over a bowl containing chopped ginger and scallion.
10. Add soy sauce, salt, and sugar to the ginger-scallion mixture.
11. Add the reserved chicken broth to the ginger-scallion mixture and mix well.
12. Pour the prepared sauce over the shredded chicken and mix everything together.
13. Serve the chicken with rice and salted vegetable soup.

## Equipment

- pot
- steamer rack
- bowl
- timer
- chopsticks
- spoon

## Tips

- Steaming preserves nutrients and is easy on the stomach.
- Cooking with water helps preserve nutrients.
- Let the chicken cool down before shredding it.
- Prepare the best sauce with a 1:1 ratio of ginger and scallion/spring onions.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMDEwt4zdf6/?igsh=MW5maHBiYjU4b3YwdA==
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/ad694f91-16df-476f-a23c-840d5b48f91a
- Extracted: 2025-07-28

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