Chicken steamed with garlic beer is a new rustic, country drinking dish, especially anyone can make it in a delicious and perfect way with just 5 simple steps:
1. How to choose ingredients for beer-steamed chicken
Selecting stage beer steamed chicken Although simple, it is very important because it determines the final quality of the dish. Compared to industrial chicken, you should choose to buy chicken as an ingredient to steam beer because it will have a more delicious and attractive flavor. In order for the finished product of steamed chicken with beer to have sweet, fragrant and firm meat, low fat and not too greasy, you should choose chicken as follows:
Regarding weight: You should choose chickens weighing over 1kg. About 1.2kg – 1.5kg is just right. Because if you choose a chicken that is too small, it will have little meat and will be dry, and if you choose a chicken that is too big, it will be chewy and less sweet.
Regarding appearance: You should choose chickens with light yellow skin, thin, smooth and have good elasticity to the touch. Although the shape is slim, the chest is large and firm. In some special skin areas such as the wings, back and breast, the chicken will have a darker yellow color than other skin areas, which means the chicken is delicious.
If you buy pre-feathered chickens, in addition to observing the weight and appearance, you need to carefully check to see if there are any bruised skin areas, black spots, or rashes on the chicken’s body. Because it could be that the chicken is not fresh, dead or sick. If you see a wild yellow color, not very real, white chicken fat, consider carefully to avoid the case that the yellow color of the chicken has been dyed to look beautiful. In addition, check to see if the chicken is swollen due to the seller injecting water to avoid the meat becoming mushy and watery when processing.
You should choose live chicken and make it fresh. If you don’t have fresh chicken, you can choose ready-made chicken at reputable places to ensure quality (Photo: Anhtp).
After choosing the ingredients beer steamed chicken delicious, you need to prepare some other main ingredients as follows:
Beer: 1-2 cans depending on whether you want to steam or submerge in beer.
Garlic: Our garlic is more fragrant than Chinese garlic, but it takes a bit longer to peel. For connoisseurs, you can choose some famous types of garlic to prepare with beer-steamed chicken such as: Ly Son garlic, Da Lat garlic, Phan Rang garlic, Dien Bien garlic, Khanh Hoa garlic,… In terms of quantity, you have You can prepare as much as you like. If you like garlic, add more. If you don’t like it, you can replace the garlic with other ingredients you like such as onions, lemongrass, chili, green pepper, etc.
Basic spices include salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, seasoning powder, fish sauce, pepper,…
Pot or pan with lid.
Induction stove, electric stove, gas stove and utensils.
Ingredients needed to prepare chicken steamed with garlic beer (Photo: Anhtp).
3. How to make delicious, perfect steamed chicken with garlic beer
After preparing the ingredients, we start making the dish chicken steamed with garlic beer as follows:
3.1. Preliminary processing of ingredients
The chicken you bought is feathered, washed, and should be rubbed with a little salt or white wine for 10 minutes. This will help make the chicken meat firmer, prevent it from becoming mushy when eaten, and also help disinfect the chicken.
Peel the garlic, leave the whole clove intact for flavor and wash thoroughly. If you don’t like garlic, you can also crush it so it can soak into the chicken for flavor.
3.2. Marinate chicken with ingredients before steaming
Before putting the beer-steamed chicken into the pot, you need to mix the marinade as follows:
Put the cleaned garlic into the pot.
Open the lid of 1-2 cans of beer and pour into the pot with garlic.
Add 1.5 tablespoons of sugar, 0.5 tablespoons of MSG, 0.5 tablespoons of seasoning powder, 1 cup of fish sauce (about 30ml), 1/4 tablespoon of pepper.
There are 2 ways to marinate here:
Method 1: If you choose to make steamed chicken, you need a steaming basket, so you should marinate the chicken directly with spices and then sprinkle beer in to steam.
Method 2: If you choose to make beer-steamed chicken directly without water bath, without steaming, then mix the spices directly into the beer and pot, remember to stir the spices with the beer until they are completely dissolved. Otherwise, the sugar will burn easily.
3.3. Turn on the stove and steam the chicken with beer
Break the chicken lying flat, put it in the pot of mixed spices and turn on the stove to cook for 20 – 45 minutes.
Place a heavy object on the pot lid to hold the lid tightly to avoid steam and heat loss in the pot. When steaming, also avoid opening the lid frequently to check. After 10 minutes of steaming, open it once to check to limit heat loss and turn the chicken over to let it cook completely. In case the heat cannot be maintained and the chicken is not cooked, you can add more beer and steam for a few more minutes until the beer-steamed chicken is completely cooked and is no longer red when poked with chopsticks to check.
After the beer-steamed chicken is cooked, use tongs to turn the chicken back and forth and squeeze the garlic and steaming water to give the chicken a beautiful color. Just keep doing this until the beer dries up and the chicken has a nice slightly charred color.
Detailed steps to make delicious, perfect garlic-beer steamed chicken (Photo: Anhtp).
4. Present the finished product attractively and beautifully
Depending on how to enjoy, each person will have a different way of presenting the dish chicken steamed with garlic beer different. Some people leave it whole, take it out on a plate, trim it with tomato blossoms, and add some cucumbers. But there are also people who tear or chop this dish into bite-sized pieces so that many people can enjoy the flavor.
Besides, if you often eat raw vegetables, you can prepare a little lettuce, coriander, Chinese cilantro, etc., put it on a plate before serving the steamed chicken. If you need more flavor, you can also add a simple salt, lemon, pepper or garlic dipping sauce to dip on the outside.
5. Enjoy steamed chicken with garlic beer with everyone at the gathering
Finished dish chicken steamed with garlic beer Delicious for its sweet, slightly salty flavor, with the barley aroma of beer and garlic blending quite attractively. There’s nothing better than gathering with family and friends during holidays, anniversaries, etc. and enjoying this delicious, attractive steamed chicken dish with garlic beer together! Don’t hesitate any longer and start making this new drink right away to enjoy! Wish you success!
